Hello,

My name is John Filippeos. I am a 27-year-old Ontario Certified Teacher with over 8 years of experience tutoring and teaching high school Math, Science and English. In that time, I have taught more than 400 students both privately and in the public school setting. To learn more about my personal education, professional credentials and teaching experience, please visit the Our Staff page.

I established York Region Tutoring in 2017 to see through my vision of Education – one that succeeds in having students develop a resistance to superficial learning. In my time with students, I have observed that the human brain is naturally inclined towards learning through repetition-driven familiarity. The more something is repeated, the more credibility it garners in the mind, and the more prepared we are to accept it without raising a critical lens and asking: why? Consequently students tend to overestimate their understanding of course content, making it especially frustrating when they feel their marks aren’t lining up.

My through-line as the Principal and Head Tutor at York Region Tutoring is unambiguous. I work to increase the proportion of students who approach their academics with an incisive disposition, who demand to understand rather than to accept, and who never again fall victim to a pale imitation of learning offered by a questionable public education infrastructure.

On account of our collective goal to bring about a shift in student learning, I have taken great care in selecting a group of tutors through whom I vicariously fulfill my commitment to this cause.

Thank you.