DesBois Tutoring & Enrichment
Renaissance Education based in Topsfield, MA
We are a family-run academic tutoring and educational enrichment service.
We offer one-on-one and small-group tutoring to students of all ages on the North Shore of Massachusetts. We also provide educational enrichment programs for schools, home-school groups and organizations. Explore this website to learn more about us and our services, or contact us for more information.
Winter 2023 News
In addition to tutoring in academic subjects, Jack is offering private voice lessons starting in January 2023, for beginner to intermediate singers, elementary school age to adult. Learn more at his website, www.jackdesbois.com/lessons, and enjoy this excerpt from Jack's educational enrichment program Shakespeare's Songs, featuring Shakespearean art songs:
Fall 2022 News
In September, DesBois Tutoring & Enrichment brought joy and silliness to the 2nd annual Topsfield Tomato Festival. Leo tested festivalgoers' tomato trivia knowledge, Jack serenaded the crowd with his folksongs, Margot challenged passersby to tomato juggling contests, and Andrew scouted out the local produce offerings.
Summer 2022 News
In August, we presented our educational enrichment program V is the Valley: A Concert-Conversation featuring New England Folksongs from the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at historic Gould Barn in Topsfield. One audience member described the event as “a night of fun and entertainment that I will not soon forget!" Learn more here, and find lyrics to the folksongs here.
Promotional video for the educational enrichment program V is the Valley: A Concert-Conversation featuring New England Folksongs from the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection.
Winter 2022 News
In January, we published “Prospecting for Literature," a multimedia essay about 20th-century songcatcher Helen Hartness Flanders and her quest to preserve the musical culture of New England.
Summer 2021 News
We've launched two engaging educational enrichment programs, available for booking now:
V is the Valley, a concert-conversation with the folksongs of New England, and
Shakespeare's Songs, featuring art song and Elizabethan settings of songs from the Bard's plays.
Contact us to bring culture, music and merriment to your school, home-school group, or organization.
We welcomed a new partner to DesBois Tutoring & Enrichment. Andrew DesBois holds a BA in Biochemistry from Middlebury College and has spent eight years teaching high school chemistry. Learn more about Andrew and all of us at our Who We Are page.
V is the Valley, a concert-conversation with the folksongs of New England, and
Shakespeare's Songs, featuring art song and Elizabethan settings of songs from the Bard's plays.
Contact us to bring culture, music and merriment to your school, home-school group, or organization.
We welcomed a new partner to DesBois Tutoring & Enrichment. Andrew DesBois holds a BA in Biochemistry from Middlebury College and has spent eight years teaching high school chemistry. Learn more about Andrew and all of us at our Who We Are page.
Jack DesBois performs “The Lumberman's Alphabet," a Vermont logging song from his educational enrichment program V is the Valley: A Concert-Conversation with the Folk Songs of the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection. Learn more about the program here.