About Our Staff

Judi Robinovitz

Judi Robinovitz is a Certified Educational Planner with more than 30 years of experience in education. Specializing in educational counseling, she is the author of numerous books, articles, and software on test preparation and college planning. Robinovitz has been a featured speaker at national educational conferences and schools. To keep pace with current educational trends, Robinovitz continually travels across America to assess colleges, boarding schools, and emotional growth programs.

During her tenure at Educational Testing Service, Robinovitz served as technical liaison to the College Board, the Law School Admission Council, and the Graduate Record Examination Board. She spearheaded the College Board's SAT prep software and made major contributions to their test preparation books. Frequently taking the SAT, Robinovitz scored a perfect 800 on all three sections of the SAT.

Consulting to two private schools in Boca Raton, Yeshiva High School and Donna Klein Jewish Academy, Robinovitz created their college guidance programs and served as Director of College Guidance to the first five graduating classes of each school.

As an active member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association, the National Association for College Admission Counseling, and the Secondary School Admission Test Board, Robinovitz is part of a professional network of admission directors, educators, psychologists and other educational consultants. She is also a member of the National Learning Disabilities Association and the Orton Dyslexia Society.

Robinovitz studied at Harvard University, Rutgers University, and the University of Connecticut. She holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, both with highest honors. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Jason Robinovitz, JD

Jason Robinovitz, the Chief Operating Officer of all Score At The Top Learning Centers, oversees each Center’s day-to-day operations, ensuring the delivery of top quality educational support and guidance services to client families. As team leader for our staff of more than 75 tutors, educational consultants, directors, and bookkeeper, Jason is in charge of strategic decision-making, including best practice policies, customer service, staffing, training, marketing, systems, and technology. Jason is also the Director and Head of School of our learning centers and schools in Parkland/Coral Springs and Weston.

Jason is also involved in educational consulting services for college, boarding school, and law school clients. Meeting with students, Jason specializes in directing pre-law and future law-school students toward the extracurricular activities that will help position them for success. He also creates student profiles for presentation to traditional and therapeutic boarding schools and discusses appropriateness of placement with their admission directors.

Jason graduated from the University of Denver with a BSBA in Finance and concentrations in Real Estate and Leadership. Three years later, he graduated from Emory University School of Law with a concentration in business and corporate law. Jason practiced medical malpractice law for five years before joining Score At The Top. He is a member of the Florida Bar.

Jason is the son of Judi Robinovitz, owner of Score At The Top Learning Centers.

Jury Robinovitz

Jury Robinovitz, the Chief Wellness Officer for all the Score At The Top Learning Centers, is responsible for spreading love and wellbeing to all. Jury is a Whippet/Labrador mix that was rescued by Jason from Miami Pet Rescue in May 2009. Before joining the family, Jury spent her time tied to a tree, fostering families of ticks and fleas. She is now tick and flea free and spends her days traveling from Center to Center with Jason, playing with all the kids and licking anyone who shows her affection.

LeAnn Elder

LeAnn Elder is the Center Director and Head of School in our Boca Raton location. She is a licensed architect with an extensive educational background — a B.S. from The University of Virginia and a Master's in Architecture from Harvard University. She studied abroad in Vicenza, Italy, while at UVA. At both UVA and Harvard, LeAnn was chosen for a variety of Teaching Assistantships, including a unique opportunity to teach an architecture program to middle school girls. As a result, she went on to design and teach a summer architecture program for high school students while attending Harvard. Her passion for teaching led to community service projects, which included introducing inner-city children to architecture with the help of the Baltimore City Arts Council. Since arriving in Florida, she has taught at FAU, and has passed her Florida teaching exams for all middle school subjects, high school math, technology, and health.

As an architect, LeAnn designed a house that was featured in a magazine (an extraordinary, contemporary design, one into which the Robinovitz family could easily move!) and has worked for firms in both Maryland and Florida. Her background in architecture accounts for her attention to detail and ability to make certain that disparate pieces come together to form a unified whole, no matter what the scale.

Beyond her own lifelong commitment to education and extracurricular activities, including her current interests in playing the piano and lifting weights, she is a mother of two who loves mentoring her own children. Her two boys are in an elementary school gifted program. They love to learn, play the piano and swim competitively on a swim team. Motherhood for LeAnn brought a shift of emphasis from the computer-dominated world of architecture to those qualities that touched on what she was truly passionate about — education and children.

LeAnn comes to Score at the Top with an enthusiasm to succeed and a strong belief in our mission. She loves to talk to people and prides herself on her ability to effectively communicate with people and listen to their needs. As a self-proclaimed "born leader," she sought the Director position to fulfill her desire to challenge herself to use her skills. Whether it was managing projects as an architect, designing her own curriculum as a teacher, or becoming Chair of Manalapan's Architectural Commission, she has always felt that she could best serve the task at hand from a leadership standpoint.

As Director/Head of School, LeAnn will serve as your gateway to success: thoroughly discussing your student's needs (including teachers' input, if appropriate), creating a goal-driven support plan, and carefully matching your student to the appropriate tutor(s)/teacher(s) based on learning style and personality. LeAnn oversees our professional teaching staff, working collaboratively with our parents, students, and teachers to ensure top-quality service to our client families.

Cathy Bicksler

As the Center Director and Head of School in our Palm Beach Gardens and West Palm Beach locations, Cathy brings a unique set of skills and life experiences to educating children. With a BS in Accounting from Bowling Green State University, she started her professional career as a cost accountant for Goodyear. However, after marrying and giving birth to the first of her seven children, Cathy made a 20-year career change to become a "homeschool mom" to her ever growing family. While teaching all her children throughout their school years. Cathy also took many educational seminars, including curriculum choice and customization, project design, critical thinking, motivation, and making learning "delight-directed." Cathy guided her four oldest children through their successful college-application process and is excited about following suit with her three youngest. She is truly passionate about children and education.

Before coming to Score At The Top, Cathy taught middle-school math and art at Marathana Christian Academy. Drawing heavily on her 20+ years of helping her own and other children, Cathy has an incredible knack for matching students to tutors. She spends a great deal of time in conversation with parents to analyze their children’s learning styles, identify their academic-support needs, and develop a plan for success. She also works closely with our homeschool families in curriculum design, course scheduling, and enrichment planning.

Cathy’s close contact with our tutors and teachers is a daily event in Palm Beach Gardens and West Palm. She regularly discusses the most effective teaching techniques, the use of supplementary materials, and creativity in sessions; she also organizes the curricula and schedules for all enrolled students in both locations. Keeping in touch with local schools is another dimension of her position; in addition to setting up test-prep workshops and college-planning seminars on their campuses, she organizes AP review sessions, summer-school classes, and courses for academic credit in the Palm Beach Gardens and West Palm Beach locations.

Cathy takes great pride in helping parents, students, tutors/teachers, and schools work together as partners in education!

Barry Mallis

Barry Mallis is the Director and Head of School of our Wellington learning center and school. A graduate of Oberlin and recipient of a Master’s degree from Middlebury, he brings us years of independent school teaching experience in English, modern languages (Spanish, French and Russian), and theatre. The recipient of a N.A.I.S. Braitmayer Foundation Fellowship to study mime and movement at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, Barry used that experience to prepare a curriculum for teaching Mime at the secondary school level.

In addition to his work with students, Barry has facilitated strategic business planning workshops with top management teams of Fortune 500 companies in the United States, Mexico, and Germany. His eclectic experience includes membership on the ski patrol of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid; service as interpreter for a group of U.S. Rotarians visiting northwest Russian in 1998; high-school varsity soccer coaching (he holds a US Soccer Federation “C” coaching license); and certification as a referee instructor and assessor for USSF. His poetry has been published in the Northern New England Review, and his work on strategic management theory appeared in Center For Quality of Management Journal. Barry has completed three marathon road races.

His work with children and adults throughout his career has been marked by dynamism, enthusiasm, and a breadth of knowledge and experience drawn from Singapore to the Amazon basin to Israel.

He lives with his wife and pug in West Palm Beach.

Leslie Isaacs

As the Boca Raton office manager, receptionist, and Judi's personal assistant, Leslie brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to her position at Score at the Top. Raised in New York City, she attended Boston University and earned her BS in Communications with a specialty in Public Relations. Leslie worked in the entertainment industry as a publicist for the music business prior to becoming an executive in her family's business, Beverly Storage Co/ArtPack International, specialists in international logistics. Her company's clientele included four U.S. Presidents, six Governors and countless celebrities. In 1997, Leslie relocated with her husband & daughter to Boca Raton, where she worked as assistant librarian for the American Heritage School of Boca/Delray.

As a former client who successfully used the college-planning, SAT-prep, and academic-support services available at Score At The Top Learning Center for her daughter, Leslie brings a unique perspective to her position. This, combined with her knowledge of the educational landscape and her ability to engage clients, has made her a great asset. Often Leslie is the first contact clients have with Score At The Top, and they have found her to be a warm, welcoming and professional presence, helping them to understand the benefits of relying on Score at the Top for all of their children’s academic needs.

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