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.

Piya Ray is a NC resident. She has been living in Cary with her husband and two children for the last fourteen years. She has a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from Delhi University (India). She has a Post graduate Diploma in Systems Management and Master’s degree in Public & Personnel Management. She worked as an engineer for multinational companies like ACS and IBM. She has worked across different cultures in India, Japan and in United States.

Piya loves working with children. She volunteers extensively at local schools. She has worked with both remedial kids and overachievers. She worked with remedial kids in Great Leaps program at elementary school which helps kids to overcome deficiencies in Reading fluency and Math. She has also been working with high achieving kids, coaching teams of Odyssey of the Mind in Green Hope Elementary and Davis Drive Middle which is an international educational program that provides creative problem solving opportunities for students. Her team has gone into winning awards and accolades in regional, state and world level competitions.

She has been extensively trained and certified as a Kumon instructor and has taken training in Kumon’s corporate office in Washington DC and at in New Jersey. She has gone into completing the Kumon worksheets herself in order to understand completely what is expected of the students enrolled in the program and has worked part time in the Kumon center to understand the complete functioning of the system.

Mrs. Ray has been interested in Kumon ever since she first went to a Kumon Center in Japan to learn Japanese herself. She has had her children enrolled in the Kumon program and has seen the benefits of Kumon learning methodology first hand.  Self-learning and creativity are Piya’s passions and she tries to promote self-learning and creativity in children so that they become better citizens of tomorrow by following their dreams and passions. She will work very closely with each individual student and his or her family to create the best study plan possible for the student, whether the need is for remedial help or for advanced study. She is looking forward to working with you and your child and help them reach their full potential.