Teacher Profiles

Teaching is at the heart of what we do. In recognizing this, we go the extra mile to recruit the best and the brightest. Our students seem to agree. Get to know some of our teachers.

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• Tim Atkins, Southeast Regional Trainer, Atlanta, Georgia
• David Chalk, Head Instructor, New York, NY
• Nick Cullen, Instructor, Seattle, WA
• Evan Godfrey, Instructor, Charlotte, NC
• Ashish Gogia, Head Instructor, Georgia
• Joe Loughnane, Mid-Atlantic Regional Trainer, Northern Virginia
• Bill Macklin, Instructor, Georgia
• Claire Smith, Instructor, Dallas, TX

Bill Macklin, Instructor, Georgia

The Right Stuff.
Studying philosophy, religion and music, Bill earned a degree from Thomas Jefferson College. “TJC was the kind of liberal arts school your parents warned you about: quirky and rebellious. I loved it.” Bill thrived in his studies. “I read poetry with Allen Ginsberg, discussed literature with Anais Nin, and had my writing critiqued by Galway Kinnell, before he won his Pulitzer Prize.” Bill has also completed graduate studies in creative writing.

What a Life!
After college, Bill worked a long, varied string of jobs ranging from box factory lineman to substitute teacher to municipal contract administrator. He didn’t find his calling until the day he walked into a newspaper office in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “Faster than you can say, ‘Hand me the white out,’ I was working as a reporter.” He worked his way up the ranks to entertainment critic, profiling famous entertainers, including Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, and the members of the bands Metallica, Def Leppard, and Guns N’ Roses. From there, Bill took a job with a major Philadelphia newspaper, polishing his writing talents and adding to his extensive work experience. Eventually, Bill returned to Michigan to teach graduate school, then traveled to Atlanta, where he took a job as a line editor at the Journal-Constitution, and finally to teaching as a tutor for C2 in semi-retirement. But don’t ask him how old he is, which he says is “somewhere between young as spring and old as dirt.”

Smart Advice.
Bill ends each class by telling his students to keep their noses clean. “I use it to remind students of the incredible fluidity of this young and vibrant thing we call the English language; how it can be bent, almost at will, to imaginatively convey an almost endless array of ideas and images. I also use it to remind my students to stay out of trouble.”

Friends you can “count” on: Finger counting can help you understand arithmetic by visualizing the stuff you’re adding and subtracting.