About the Instructor

As an extensively trained and certified professional instructor, I serve as a mentor who guides your children through their work while also providing direction, support and encouragement. I create an at-home study plan in addition to monitoring classroom assignments, and I emphasize the importance of accurately completing each assignment within a designated time frame. This has helped many of my students increase self-confidence, thus becoming more self-reliant. Like all Kumon Instructors, I have a true passion for education and an earnest desire to help children succeed.

Instructor Begley is a former probation officer, Army veteran, and father of four. He is a native Michigander transplanted to Virginia in 2001 by way of two Army tours. He holds a bachelor's degree in Administration of Criminal Justice and a master's degree in Criminal Justice from Colorado Technical University. He has taught criminal justice, court process, juvenile justice, and graduate level criminology at Phoenix University. For personal enrichment, Instructor Begley has studied history at the City College of Chicago and University of Maryland, English literature at the University of Detroit, and World literature at George Mason University.

His passion, however, lies in pursuits that support, protect, and enrich the community. This is the common thread that followed him through the Army, counterintelligence with the federal government, adolescent residential counseling, and juvenile probation casework: each one in support of his country and local community. Instructor Begley believes the Kumon method is one more pillar to better the community by improving the confidence, ability, and performance of young learners.

As you can tell by this brief background, he is also a supporter in the Oxford comma.