Wells Academic Solutions

Jared Wells, founder of Wells Academic Solutions is a native San Diegan, born at Scripps Hospital. He is married to his beautiful Stephanie, an award-winning designer of clothing, jewelry, and handbags. (Check out her beautiful jewelry at www.doublehappinessjewelry.com) Jared has been an educator since 1994, and loves working one-on-one with studen... ts of all ages. His interest in education was developed at a young age. Jared was heavily influenced by the teachings of Dr. Thomas Gordon, author of Parent Effectiveness Training and Teacher Effectiveness Training, as his mother was an associate of Dr. Gordon's in the seventies. Better communication through effective listening is the core principle he learned by spending his summers at the Effectiveness Training headquarters in Solana Beach. In his late teens he took a peer counseling class, and went on to teach the class as a co-leader for several years. Over this time he developed a youth peer counseling group called Our Club. Our Club was established to help young people learn how to become effective listeners and how to provide better support for their peers. While he was attending the University of California at San Diego, he continued to pursue his interest in counseling by working as a Residential Supervisor at Oz San Diego, an in-house counseling center for teens 12-17 years old. He was responsible for group counseling sessions, the supervision of up to nine resident teens, and communicating with the clinical staff in the implementing of treatment plans. After Oz San Diego he was hired by La Jolla High School to work with students who were struggling in math. At this time he also began taking on private math students. To his surprise, he found that the depth of the relationships through tutoring was similar to the depth of relationships he had developed through counseling. Many students who struggle in school develop negative self-perception of their intelligence. As a tutor, he saw it as his job to understand each student's unique challenges and supply ...Read More