About Andrew
About Andrew
Andrew Tripoli
Andrew is a qualified teacher in both the US and UK. He has a wide range of educational experiences including leadership and administrative experience, classroom teaching experience, summer camp experience, and tutoring experience. Andrew holds an MAT in teaching English and English as a Second/Other Language and MA in cultural policy and management. He has also had the opportunity to work with the International Baccalaureate (IB) to improve their social emotional learning program and with the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
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Andrew’s guiding philosophies of education exist across this entire site, but can be expressed through a few guiding principles. His overall approach is to “guide not decide.” This manifests as a leader and educator by listening first, understanding the needs that are spoken and unspoken, and then providing frameworks and strategies that will best achieve long-term success. Since this approach is not one of dictatorial rule, but as a pathway of personal growth, agreement on what the key goals are, and a partnered motivation to reach that goal, are vital to the progress and prosperity that we seek to achieve as a team.
What then does a good partner look like? This can be summed up in four expectations. These are: respect yourself, respect others, be honest, and try. By respecting yourself you learn introspection and the ability to advocate for your needs that may not be obvious to others. By respecting others you learn to actively listen, be receptive, quiet your ego, develop empathy, and build communication skills. By being honest we give ourselves and others the best chance to address the reality or underlying puzzle of the situation. Lastly, by trying you develop perseverance and show your active engagement with the process at play.
Qualifications & Experience
Education
DegreesTeaching
LicensesOther
Associations
Master of Arts
Culture, Policy and Management
Master of Arts in Teaching
English & English as a Second/Other Language
US – State of Oregon
English & English as a Second/Other Language
UK – Qualified Teaching Status
International Baccalaureate (IB)
IB Examiner
WASC Accreditation
International Visiting Committee Member
Student Testimonials
I would like to say that I love the open and fun way of teaching your have. I admire your openness in considering people’s ideas. I ought to be someone like you when I grow up as a person.
— Grade 8 Student
I don’t really think I would’ve wanted my English class any other way.
— Grade 8 Student
The analysis we did with “The Masque of Red Death” really made me understand symbolism and other writing skills
— Grade 9 Student
Tr. Tree cares a lot about his students and always asks us about our opinions and whether we have any questions, comments, concerns, or emotional outbursts!
— Grade 9 Student
I like how he keeps us asking questions and leads us to the main point he wants to make.
— Grade 10 Student
Tr. Tree is a pretty chill teacher. He is always asking us to do our best, but he does not make us overwork which is pretty cool.
— Grade 9 Student
I think I am still adjusting to his way of teaching due to the fact that his way of teaching is fairly different and interesting. Sometimes the way he answers your question gives you more. That’s because he always extends and tries to explain it with very deep meaning
— Grade 10 Student
He doesn’t give us too much pressure.
— Grade 9 Student
I like Tr. Tree’s energetic and interactive teaching
— Grade 8 Student
He makes references to the things I like during class. It’s like an inside joke and very cool
— Grade 7 Student
I think the part where the teacher holds one-on-one meetings works well because it enables us to know our specific problems and ways to improve
— Grade 10 Student
We learned a lot from this unit on advertising. I think the things I found most helpful for my writing were the bad arguments and good arguments. They were really interesting and allowed me to see that there are specific ways to manipulate an audience
— Grade 9 Student
The in-depth analysis on how to conduct and interview and structure a set of non-biased questions was really helpful.
— Grade 10 Student
Tr. Tree is organized and we all know what he is teaching
— Grade 9 Student
I like how Mr. Tree is well-prepared and knows a lot about the content he’s teaching
— Grade 8 Student
I think the assignments for this unit were really fun, especially the summative since we got to design our own campaigns and advertisements.
— Grade 9 Student
Very resourceful! We can always find references to everything
— Grade 11 Student