About Whoosh Learning

Whoosh Learning was founded by a team of individuals who were committed to providing a better way to help students learn online. Having found other online and traditional tutoring methods deficient, Whoosh was built to build student achievement and confidence though an enjoyable online tutoring program. Our committment to student academic success are clearly seen in our vision and mission statements.

Vision Statement: To reinforce fundamental education skills through programs that are accessible, affordable, and individualized for each student.

Mission Statement: Our mission is to provide an interactive and safe online educational environment, where every child's academic performance will improve.

Learn more about the Whoosh Learning executive team

Dr. Molly Keogh
Frank A. Garcia
Gregory A. Ross

Dr. Molly Keogh

Dr. Molly Keogh began her career as an elementary school teacher in school districts throughout Florida, New York, and South Carolina. Dr. Keogh taught children with a variety of needs including learning disabilities, English as a second language, and gifted and talented. She loved to design unique activities to meet the individual needs of the learners in her classroom. And, she became very interested in providing unique and targeted materials to allow all students access to the curriculum. Her belief in differentiated instruction became her passion. As such, Dr. Keogh designed models of instruction that ensured all of her students were enabled to reach higher-order thinking skills. She began to notice a pattern among her students: regardless of individual ability, many lacked basic skills knowledge. She found that without these basic skills, students struggled to reach higher-order thinking skills. Dr. Keogh began working on her Ph.D. to better understand how to help her students.

Based on her perspectives and experiences as a teacher, when Dr. Keogh became a mother, she was looking for a program to help her own children master the fundamental skills needed to succeed in school. She enrolled her oldest child in a few tutorial programs at an early age. With each experience, she saw her child become frustrated and bored with these programs. Dr. Keogh tried to find a program that would be interactive, adjust for her children's independent learning levels, keep them motivated, and be accessible online. Having little success, Dr. Keogh joined forces with a company called Improvement Interactive, which created the world's first fluency based e-learning product called Infrature. Infrature has successfully established itself as an e-learning corporate training program. The focus of this program was to improve retention of important information by increasing mastery through speed and accuracy. Using the Infrature model, Dr. Keogh created Whoosh Learning, an online interactive learning program designed to improve children's basic skills knowledge.

Dr. Keogh earned her Ph.D in Teaching and Curriculum from Syracuse University and holds a M.Ed in Educational Leadership and a B.S. in Elementary Education. She has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate level at Syracuse University and Towson University. Her research has been presented at a variety of national conferences. She and her husband have two children and live in the Chicago area.

Frank A. Garcia

As a Board member of Whoosh Learning, LLC, Frank A. Garcia provides leadership and strategic support for the company. In 1991, Mr. Garcia, began developing a software package for the health care industry. Upon completion of the package in 1993, he recruited a management team to run the new company, Persistech. That same management remains together today. In 1999, to form a joint venture focused on the development of educational software, the Persistech management team formed Improvement Interactive, LLC. Infrature, the world's first fluency based e-learning product was born. Today, Infrature remains the unchallenged leader in the knowledge mastery realm. Whoosh Learning was created by merging the Infrature framework with child-friendly curriculum and images.

In addition to Infrature, Improvement Interactive today offers architectural and contracting services for software development, as well as additional products and services in the e-learning space.

Gregory A. Ross

As Managing Member of Whoosh, LLC, Gregory A. Ross provides strategic counsel and guidance for the company. Mr. Ross is a former executive with Aramark Corporation, a world leader in providing professional services and one of FORTUNE magazine's "Most Admired Companies." While at Aramark, he held positions including Vice President of Corporate Planning & Development and President of Children's World Learning Centers. Mr. Ross recognized the void in the market of a self-directed online educational platform for elementary age children, and thus approached Improvement Interactive, LLC and Dr. Keogh about developing a fluency product that would fill this void. Whoosh Learning was developed as the first online educational product of its kind, working to meet the educational needs of children across the country. Mr. Ross's education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dickinson College and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

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