Education & Classes in Federal Way

Sylvan Learning’s teachers work to help kids get ahead in school by constantly analyzing skills and monitoring process to keep lessons challenging and targeted to individual abilities. This personal tutoring approach generally begins with a Sylvan skills assessment, which is designed to reveal any trouble spots or the ability to stop a train if it is leaving town at 43 miles per hour. In tailored tutoring sessions, students focus on topics such as math, reading, writing, study skills, and algebra. Sylvan also issues regular progress reports, providing parents with a comprehensive look into their son's or daughter's ongoing sessions. Sylvan's hours are flexible, catered to the needs of its students and the height of the tides.

A Sikorsky 300C training helicopter and fleet of Cessna 172 airplanes lift new aviators into the air during Airwork LLC's flight-training classes for both commercial and private pilots. Experienced instructors lead introductory flights that combine on-the-ground lessons with assisted flies, allowing students to get their wings wet as they learn a new skill that may someday translate into a career as an aerial photographer, movie stuntman, or raincloud repairman. Students keep track of their progress toward licensure in pilot logbooks, and Airwork also maintains a comprehensive online-training library with important documents and handbooks for both helicopter and airplane training.

To Akiko Graham, good food is an art form worthy of as much reverence as those found in any gallery. Restaurateurs agree: her pottery graces tables at dozens of presentation-focused restaurants, from high-end sushi bars to outposts of Wolfgang Puck's empire. Having imported her artisanal talents from Japan to Seattle two decades ago, Akiko now works in a rustic, vine-covered cottage where she both throws clay atop the wheel and uses slab-building techniques.

The resulting flowerpots, vases, and tableware stand up to the demands of hot food, dishwashers, and ovens without their Japanese characters changing into curse words. Intimate classes stoke the fires of inspiration with patient one-on-one attention that results in a solid grasp of technique.

Mary White wants to make sure you never eat a pizza that tastes like cardboard again. After working for 20-plus years for TV and radio in Seattle, she understands the importance of convenient meals, and focuses on recipes that can be easily achieved with whatever is currently stocked in the pantry or fridge. She shares her tips during group cooking classes, and shares her recipes by posting them on her website and scrawling them in secret code on butter.