About Us

We provide instruction and test preparation to K-12th graders, college students and adults in all academic areas. Our main purpose is to assist students achieve their appropriate grade level and challenge those advanced students who want to reach their maximum potential.


 History

In 1987, when Dr. Kris Nhan Truong was a student at Harvard College, she founded and directed a tutoring program for refugee children living in Boston, Massachusetts. The tutoring program,which she named, BRYE, is still in operation today serving up to 90 children (see: Summer Program at Harvard). Upon graduating with Honors from Harvard, she volunteered to work in a Vietnamese refugee camp in the Philippines for one year, teaching English and interviewing for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She continued her passion for teaching working as a teacher’s assistant and instructor while she was attending Johns Hopkins University, School for Public Health, for her doctoral degree between 1994-1999. After spending more than 17 years living on the East Coast, she moved back to Southern California, where she had attended elementary school. Dr. Truong taught statistics to freshmen, and epidemiology in the Masters of Public Health program at California State University Fullerton, where she was offered a tenured faculty position in 2006. Due to her enthusiasm and passion to help students excel in school, and experience in teaching and tutoring students for most of her adult life, she founded her second learning center, The HT Learning Center (HTLC), this time on the West Coast. Due to the success of HTLC’s teaching staff there are currently three centers in Westminster, Fountain Valley and Garden Grove, CA.