About Your Instructor
MARIA HELENA TRUJILLO
I have 11 years of experience as a Kumon instructor, 6 years of experience as a Kumon mom, and 3 years of experience in individualized instruction research at FSU’s Learning Systems Institute and the Florida Center for Reading Research. I hold two master's degrees in communications and qualitative research from Purdue University. Back in my country, I was the cultural editor for a local newspaper and later the Director of Communications for the Technological University of Bolivar. I was also an English As a Second Language teacher. I combine those experiences with my Kumon training and my desire to help your kids get the most of an already proven, effective system – the Kumon curriculum.
I started my Kumon journey as a mom desperately looking to help my younger son achieve his full potential despite his learning challengnd later cognitive psychology from UChicago, and my younger one is currently a computer sciences. I have two wonderful sons. My older one graduated in Linguistics, neuroscience, ace major at Washington and Lee University.
I work along my very handsome husband whom I respect and adore (ex-Navy and Physical Oceanographer). We love to travel, camp, and hike. I have a great team of assistants, all passionate and committed to personalized Kumon instruction. I also have a whole life of passion and independent study about how the brain learns.
“We must allow children to experience the joy of self-learning and advancing on their own. We hope they will then continue learning by themselves even after going out in the real world, and grow up into people who are proactive in everything they do.” –Toru Kumon