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academic year 2025-2026

LYCAL Fall 2025 classes will start on September 2, right after Labor Day, during weekday after school and weekend (no evening classes). Registration is open with early sign up discount by June 1, 2025.

Below is the list of subjects taught with classes arranged by grades/level. Grade 1 to 5 Mandarin will be tutored most weekdays as well.

  • Speech and Debate, Grade 3 to 8

  • English Reading and/or Writing, Grade 1 to 8

  • Fun Math (Beast Academy), Grade 1 to 5

  • PreAlgebra, Grade 4 to 5

  • Algebra, Grade 5 to 7

  • Comprehensive Math, Grade 6 to 9

  • Competitive Math, Grade 2 to 5

  • AMC 8 or MathCounts, Grade 6 to 8

  • AMC 10/12, Grade 8 to 11

  • Mandarin, Grade 1 to 5

The Speech/Debate classes are taught by Stuart Pink, a world-class speaker and speech coach. In 2012, he achieved 3rd place in the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking and has won the eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island District Speech Contest four times. He regularly coaches TEDx speakers and speech contest winners and believes that public speaking is an essential skill for success in life and that everyone can learn how to communicate effectively and have fun while doing it.

The English Reading and Writing classes are taught by Francisco Kondor and Kay Ho. Fran is a teacher in public school currently, with 10 plus years’ experience including five years teaching Mandarin speaking students. Kay is a professional English teacher with 20 plus years’ experience.

Elementary school math classes are taught by Yongli Zhang, a professional teacher with 20 plus years of experience in top public schools and a very experienced math competition coaches with a lot of student awards in Math Olympiads both in Beijng and Lexington. Over three-fourths of her students got MOEMS awards in recent years.

Middle school and high school math classes are taught by John Zhu. Dr. Zhu was the coach for 2016-2018 Diamond School MathCounts team. His team was in the top three in the State during those years (right after Clarke School). There have been LYCAL students advancing to MathCounts National and/or US(J)MO many years before and 40% students get awards in AMC 8 and AMC 10 this academic year (https://www.lycalma.org/math-achievement-2024).

There are other teachers and TAs to assist from time to time: https://www.lycalma.org/teachers.