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 of our learning center in Parkland/Coral Springs.

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.

Sarah Siegel

Sarah Siegel, the Director of our Boca Raton learning center, brings to Score At The Top 10 years of education and administrative experience — from classroom teaching, tutoring, and curriculum development, to management, marketing, and public relations. With her passion for quality customer service, she offers our families the hands-on, individualized experience that is the signature style of her career.

As Director, Sarah thoroughly discusses your student’s needs (including teachers’ input, if appropriate), creates a goal-driven support plan, and carefully matches your student to the appropriate tutor(s) based on learning style and personality. Sarah oversees our professional teaching staff and maintains ongoing relationships with parents, students, and teachers to ensure top-quality service to our client families.

Sarah’s enthusiasm for our personalized services is the natural result of her pedagogy that has touched the lives of hundreds of students during her teaching career. Most recently Sarah was the Master Teacher of Spanish at the Nysmith School for the Gifted in Northern Virginia, imbuing her students with a love of modern language. As the mother of three, Sarah communes easily with our families, and is in tune with the challenges parents face in meeting their children’s rigorous life schedules filled with sports and myriad extracurricular activities — while striving to keep their children on top academically.

Capitalizing on her two degrees from Rutgers University — BA in Spanish and M.Ed. in Bilingual Education — Sarah has had her curricula published for use by schools in New Jersey and Virginia. Sarah left the classroom when she was selected as UniServ Director for the Fairfax Education Association, managing over 1200 members and their needs. As the Youth Market Director for the American Heart Association, Sarah brought health-related educational programming to the Fairfax County public schools and raised over $250,000 for Heart Health research – a cause near and dear to her heart.

Sarah was excited to relocate to South Florida to lead our team of educators in Boca Raton. As a mother, an educator, and a self-proclaimed multi-tasker, Sarah brings to her position a wealth of experience and ability to help your child Score At The Top. As Sarah says to each of her students, “I will never give you a challenge that you cannot meet!”

Cathy Bicksler

As the Center Coordinator in Palm Beach Gardens, 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 is a daily event in Palm Beach Gardens. She regularly discusses the most effective teaching techniques, the use of supplementary materials, and creativity in sessions. Keeping in touch withlocal schools is another dimension of her position as Center Coordinator; 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 Center.

Cathy takes great pride in helping parents, students, tutors, and schoolswork together as partners in education!

Barry Mallis

Barry Mallis is the Director of our learning center in Wellington. 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.

Anne Dichele

Anne shares some college-counseling responsibility with Judi, focusing on the application process itself — from guiding students to write application essays that truly distinguish themselves to reviewing every aspect of their applications.

Anne draws heavily on her own professional writing background in helping students. She is a playwright whose works have received national recognition. Her short play, MeetMarket.com, was produced off-Broadway. Prior to joining Score at the Top, Anne worked in the public relations field, where she specialized in producing print pieces and press releases and creating special events. As a past member of the Executive Board of the Public Relations Society of America Gold Coast Chapter, Anne was involved in planning seminars and workshops to enhance writing and marketing skills.

Anne also utilizes her performance background when working with students to motivate and engage them to improve their writing skills. Anne is a classically trained pianist and singer who has been a member of classical choral organizations since high school. She has also been heavily involved in community theater where she has done acting, singing and producing. In addition, she is an accomplished public speaker. She attributes much of her success in working with students to her flair for dramatic presentation.

Anne earned her undergraduate degree [summa cum laude] in English and philosophy at the University of Hartford and her master s degree in English from Trinity College. She has taught college English and tutored extensively in English, ESOL and Spanish.

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.

Rachelle (Shelly) Chairman, Ph.D.

Shelly Chairman is a teacher and curriculum designer specializing in the achievement of specific learning outcomes. During her years at Score at the Top Learning Centers, Shelly developed the expertise to guide students to score at the top of their potential on standardized tests. Her tutorials are customized to individual learning styles in preparation for the SAT, PSAT, SSAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT.

Shelly's focus on targeting individual goals, her adaptability to students’ unique learning styles, and her assurance that every student can learn how to increase test scores, make her an effective and sought-after academic coach. In addition to tutoring, Shelly guides students through the college and graduate school planning process: identifying appropriate colleges, brainstorming winning ideas and presentations for application essays and portfolios, creating effective activity resumes to showcase accomplishments, preparing students for campus visits and interviews, and polishing applications. Shelly’s students have enjoyed incredible success in both standardized testing and college/graduate school admissions.

Formerly Cornell University's Director of Continuing Education for the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and Coordinator of Management Education programs at the University of Michigan's Graduate School of Business, Shelly has firsthand experience of both public and private universities. At these universities and in the private sector, she developed curriculum and taught in Israel, Jamaica and South Africa, and at major North American corporations.

Shelly has degrees from Temple University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2007 she earned her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership at Florida Atlantic University. Her dissertation research, publications, and presentations focus on the relationships between educational institutions and their communities. Shelly is also an adjunct faculty member at FAU's Department of Languages and Linguistics, specializing in French grammar and reading.

Lauren Petrosky

As a tutor and educational consultant at Score at the Top in Boca Raton, Lauren is well versed in a variety of subjects ranging from history and math to French and creative writing — and on standardized tests, such as the PSAT,SAT, ACT, and LSAT. As a self-proclaimed nerd, Lauren spent her high school years heavily involved in debate, becoming the number one female "extemper" in the country during her junior year.

Lauren received a full 4-year academic scholarship to the University of Miami, where she double-majored in economics and political science. During her four years at UM, Lauren was heavily involved in community service, chairing her own non-profit organization and working to increase financial literacy among underserved youth through Project Hope and Voices for Children. Graduating summa cum laude in 2007, Lauren continued her studies at the London School of Economics, earning a Master's degree in international political economy. As a student living in London, Lauren worked on a number of human rights campaigns focusing on women's and children's rights.

When Lauren returned to the USA, she started her career in finance — but discovered that the Wall Street life wasn’t for her. It didn’t take Lauren long to find her passion in education. In fact, she describes her transition to the world of teaching as “one of the most rewarding experiences I've ever been a part of” and sees the fruits of her labor in the smiles on her students’ faces as they improve their grades and standardized test scores. Lauren especially enjoys guiding students through their college and boarding-school application essays. Her students find her creative brainstorming sessions and meticulous editing to be exactly what they need to write winning application essays!

During her spare time, Lauren enjoys running, going to the beach, traveling, and spending time with her family. As a die-hard Miami Hurricanes fan, Lauren never misses a 'Canes football game and can often be seen sporting orange and green attire on the weekends.

Lizzie Fuhr

Lizzie is one of our most popular tutors/educational consultants in Palm Beach Gardens. Growing up in South Florida, Lizzie earned her B.A. in English from the University of Michigan. Throughout her college career, Lizzie played a key role in hundreds of essay, short story, and play-writing workshops in Florida, Michigan, and New York. One of Lizzie's short plays was featured in the 2009 "Vision and Voices Festival" in New York City. As a recent college graduate with a love of education, especially literary analysis and creative writing, Lizzie understands the demands of college planning and the application process. She prides herself on her imaginative spirit and her cheerful, can-do attitude. Above all else, Lizzie understands the necessity of providing students with a positive, progressive environment where beautiful writing and revising can flourish.

Sassia W. Hochberg, CPC

As a master tutor and certified life coach in our Palm Beach Gardens center, Sassia works with students of all ages, including those with special needs.

Sassia's passion for theatre and the arts led her to teaching. She earned an undergraduate degree in Theatre and Speech Communications at Montclair State University. She is currently working on a dual master's degree in Education and Mental Health Counseling at Nova Southeastern University.

Sassia, who calls herself a "creative artist and educator," combines her multiple certifications in drama, speech, ESE K-12, and middle school English into a unique multi-sensory approach to help her students achieve success. Sassia empowers her clients through education, self-discovery, and expressive arts therapy. Having taught in the Palm Beach school system for several years, she is also adept at designing and implementing curriculum to target FCAT mastery.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Sassia says she is a Florida girl at heart!

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