Pinecone Active Learning is a unique "hybrid" of private tutoring and a learning center. Vivian Hobbs, the director, developed this program after running a typical center of 200+ students for fifteen years. While the center was successful in helping many students achieve their potential, Ms. Vivian wanted to reach the "harder to teach" kids in a smaller, friendlier and more attentive setting. Pinecone has all the rigors of any mastery programs in math, reading and writing, but it offers one-on-one attention and flexibility for individual learning needs – and at an affordable learning center price.