EdPath Family Education Advisors — Home of Boost Academy, our premier ACT preparation and college readiness program.

About EdPath Family Education Advisors

At EdPath Family Education Advisors, we provide students with the guidance they need to succeed in an academic environment. We offer ACT preparation through Boost Academy as well as structured plans that are shaped to the needs of the individual. We don’t just advise students, though, we also provide parents with guidance on how they can best support their children to give them the best possible chance at success. If you are interested in getting comprehensive support for your student, get in touch with EdPath today.

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PERSONALIZED EDUCATION

Our Story and Mission at EdPath Family Education Advisors

The mission of EdPath Family Education Advisors is to provide customized support to students and their families as they navigate the many and varied facets of the educational process. We help students gain access to more opportunities and provide them with strategies that can benefit them throughout their academic career. The career of Laura Spretnjak, founder of EdPath Family Education Advisors and Boost Academy, has been shaped by teaching in both nationally acclaimed public high schools and gang-ridden urban schools. She is an eyewitness of the wide disparities that exist within the public education system in America. Despite those differences, she encountered one common denominator—frustrated parents. She observed the anguish of parents struggling to navigate bureaucracy and legal complexity in helping their child succeed in a public school.

TAILORED APPROACH

Our Approach to Education Advice

Personalized Plans for Students

Support for Both Parents and Students

Scholarship-Supported Access for Qualifying Students

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Our Support Options for Students

EdPath Family Education Advisors offers multiple support options to ensure students are given the best chance of success in their academic efforts. We provide support that includes:

Boost Academy ACT Preparation

EdPath Educational Advisory

IEP Advisory

Coaching for Parents

Get in touch with the team at EdPath Family Education Advisors today to learn more about your child’s options.

Laura Spretnjak

Founder, EdPath Family Education Advisors and Boost Academy

20+ Years of Experience | Personalized Instruction | Expanding College & Merit Scholarship Opportunities

I formed EdPath Family Education Advisors to help families customize the services of their public school system in a way that will best serve their children. Without knowledge of their child’s rights or even the options available, parents, and more importantly, their students are often tragically disadvantaged. The mission of EdPath Family Education Advisors is to level the playing field for students. Simply stated, we realistically advise families who believe their child’s needs are not being met. This includes understanding, managing, and explaining a child’s IEP; being an impartial liaison between the student and the school; and/or providing individualized ACT/SAT test preparation. People don’t work with me to increase their subject matter knowledge, although we do provide tutoring to those who need it. Families come to me for help navigating the business of school. I’ve developed analytics that help me identify where the opportunities are to improve each student’s academic footprint. Most importantly, I only work with students willing to put in serious time.

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For more than two decades as an educator, I’ve worked with talented, hardworking students whose ACT scores simply didn’t reflect what they were capable of achieving. I watched students with strong grades struggle with standardized testing. I watched a few ACT points change the colleges within reach, the college merit scholarships available to a family, and sometimes the direction of a student's future. I learned that simply telling students to practice more wasn't enough. Students needed someone to determine why they were losing points. They needed instruction targeted to their individual weaknesses, strategies that matched the way they tested, and teachers who could continually adjust that instruction as they improved. That's why I created Boost Academy. Boost Academy combines the diagnostic approach I've developed over more than 20 years with personalized instruction, small student-to-teacher ratios, and a team of experienced educators. Our goal isn't simply to prepare students for a test. It's to help ensure that one test doesn't unnecessarily limit the opportunities they've worked so hard to earn.

Julie Gasperec

Medical Advisor

Occasionally, EdPath Family Education Advisors meets families who have students with specific medical needs which directly affect their ability to be successful in the school environment. Parents are often confused about how their child’s medical needs can be addressed in an educational setting. Julie Gasperec spent over a decade as a special educator and a certified school nurse in the public school system.

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WHERE WE SERVE

EdPath Family Education Advisors and Our Roots in Tennessee

We proudly serve families throughout Tennessee and its many communities, including:

Middle Tennessee

East Tennessee

West Tennessee

Rural and Outlying Communities

Our advisors work with families across the state, no matter how close or far they are from a major city center. Many of our families find us after realizing how much the season and structure of the school year can weigh on a household, from the scramble of back-to-school decisions and course planning in late summer to the mid-winter stress of report cards, testing, and college or curriculum deadlines. Are you ready to build a clearer path forward for your child's education? Contact us today to schedule your comprehensive family education consultation.

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EdPath helps students understand the real reason behind their struggles, not just the score on a test. Through ACT test prep, educational advisory, and coaching for parents, our team works alongside families to address what's getting in the way, so every student has what they need to move forward.

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EdPath approaches every student differently, because every student's challenges are different. Our process begins with a clear understanding of your child's strengths, struggles, and goals, then builds a plan tailored to what will genuinely help them succeed.

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