Faculty

Our faculty are highly trained, with educational backgrounds ranging from the bachelor of arts degree to masters' and doctoral degrees. All are practitioners in their fields of expertise. They are professionals dedicated to helping students achieve their fullest potential.

Peter R. Beaven

Mr. Beaven, an Andover native, is founder and director of Beaven & Associates. He has over 30 years of teaching and tutoring experience.

Education: Bowdoin College, B.A., cum laude; Alfred P. Sloan Scholar; extramural studies in English at Exeter College, Oxford, UK; University of New Hampshire, M.P.A.

Mr. Beaven founded the firm bearing his name in 1976, and in 1979 he established Passport Exchange, a foreign exchange program for students from Spain, France, and Italy to visit with American families in New England and for American students to exchange visits with these students in their native countries.

Tutoring specialties: standardized test preparation, English, basic math, Spanish and Latin.

prbeavenATbeavenandassociates.com

Joseph Abi-Moussa

Education: Merrimack College, B.S. Mathematics, cum laude.

Tutoring specialities: basic to advanced topics in mathematics, SAT and SSAT.

jabimoussaATmsn.com

Nicia N. Gruener

Education: University of Pittsburgh, M.Ed Special Education.

Tutorial specialties: individualized assessment and guidance for students with learning disabilities, study skills and academic time management, individual curriculum development for underachieving preschool and elementary students in reading and reading readiness skills and math concepts and computation skills, and enrichment activities for elementary and junior high students.

John Krey

Educaton: Boston University, B.S. biology, chemistry; Bowling Green State University; Northeastern University, MEd.

Tutoring specialities: Chemistry and biology.

Richard N. Fell

Education: Boston College, B.S. physics; Brandeis Univeristy, Ph.D. in theoretical physics, with a speciality in bound state quantum electrodynamics.

Tutoring specialities: physics, high school and college level (general physics, mechanics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics), mathematics, high school and college (from algebra to calculus and linear algebra, vector calculus, differential geometry, functions of complex variables.)

Currently a university lecturer in Physics.

John Willard

Education: Amherst College, B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; University of Florida, M.A. English.

Tutoring specialities: standardized test prep, math, English, foreign languages and history.