Meet Lindsey Wander

We had the good fortune of connecting with Lindsey Wander and we’ve shared our conversation below.

What was your thought process behind starting your own business?
Lindsey Wander, Valedictorian of her high school, originally enrolled at Cal State Fresno to study Biomedical Engineering. In just four years, she graduated with a Bachelor’s in Biology, a Bachelor’s in Chemistry, and a Minor in Mathematics. Several domestic and international internships later, she discovered her passion for teaching and re-enrolled in college to earn her teaching credentials.

For several years, Lindsey taught STEM in the low-income neighborhoods of California, making it her mission to create a learning environment that was so engaging that it motivated her students to come to school. They explored, questioned, innovated, learned, laughed, and loved – all within her classroom walls. However, time and financial restraints, added to endless bureaucratic red tape, prevented Lindsey from being able to dedicate the 1-on-1 time to her students who needed it. Thus, many of her “kids” fell through the cracks – and there was nothing she could do about it.

So, when Lindsey moved to Chicago at the age of 29, she decided to start her own tutoring business, which later became WorldWise Tutoring. Her mission was to help students of all abilities to not only improve their grades and scores, but to also learn the skills to become confident and independent lifelong learners, and grow into competent and conscious leaders. She sought to empower our youth with the tools to succeed in school, work, and life – so that they were in the powerful position to be agents of change in their own lives and in the lives of those around them.

Lindsey’s methodologies were so effective that her business quickly grew beyond what she could handle alone. So she started to “teach the teachers,” guiding tutors dedicated to her mission of empowerment through education with her best practices. Now, years later, her business has 60+ tutors providing online services worldwide and in-person services in Illinois and Texas to students of ALL ages and ALL abilities in ALL subjects. She has seen their students grow into accomplished, self-sufficient adults who are still eager to learn more.

With the widening achievement gap due to COVID-19 school closures, Lindsey combined her passion for serving underprivileged students with her expertise as a tutoring business owner to form the nonprofit 501(c)3 charity Educate. Radiate. Elevate. This organization is focused on providing high-quality 1-on-1 instruction in academics, enrichment, test prep, and learning and life skills to underserved K-12 students. The goal is to strengthen the educational achievement of our youth in order to provide economic, social, and mental stability for us and future generations.

What should our readers know about your work?
Lindsey founded WorldWise Tutoring with the mission of empowering our youth with the tools to succeed in school, work, and life. Lindsey and her team of instructors deliver personalized instruction to help students of all ages (2 years old and above) and all abilities to improve their grades and scores, as well as to learn the skills to become confident and independent lifelong learners, and grow into competent and conscious leaders. Lindsey founded the nonprofit Educate. Radiate. Elevate. in 2020 with the mission to provide quality education support to underserved students, at no cost to their families.

• Skills/Services (in-person in IL & TX, online globally):

• Ages 1 – adult

• Academic Subjects

• Enrichment Classes (Acting, Art, Finance, Coding, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Game Development, Leadership, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Public Speaking, Robotics, Social Justice, Sign Language, Spanish, Statistics, Writing, etc.)

• Test Prep (HSPT, ISEE, CPS SEHS, STARR, PSAT, PACT, ACT, SAT, SAT II, AP, IB, A-levels, GRE, GMAT, MCAT, LSAT, TOEFL, IELTS, etc.)

• Foreign Languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, German, Ukrainian, Turkish/Azerbaijani, Arabic, Farsi, Tamil,  Bengali, Mandarin/Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Sherpa, Tibetan, Nepalese, Urdu, Gujarati, Hebrew)

• College/Scholarship/Job Research & Applications

Learning Difficulties

• ESL
• Metacognition, Executive Functions, & Interpersonal Skills (time management, self-assessment, mindfulness, focus, critical thinking, creative problem solving, innovation, self-advocacy, entrepreneurial mindset, etc.)

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
I love the Dallas Zoo.  It is so green and relaxing with a wide variety of animals. I also enjoy to Perot Museum of Nature and Science for its interactive exhibits.

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