Chapin and Chapin

With over 50 years of combined experience as educators Amy and Bill Chapin are dedicated to providing personalized services for learners and jazz improvisers.

Amy Chapin

A certified teacher and adult educator, Amy Chapin through her Academic Coaching Services provides confidential, individualized help for learners on a wide range of subjects and levels. A typical day in the office of Academic Coaching Services, at 18 S. Lake St, Grayslake, will see Amy helping students hone their study and test-taking skills, prepare for tests, tackle a long-range project, and overcome learning issues of many kinds. Integral to her coaching is frequent consultations with parents of her learners, and she often attends meetings with parents at the student's school to assist with communications and to help the family and school develop a plan for the student's learning. Her Frequently Asked Questions, services, and her bio provide more information, both about her special approach and her unique skill set for helping students develop "strategies for success."

Bill Chapin

While Bill's day job is managing the technology program at Warren Township High School, where he is the Director of Educational Technologies, he also plays and teaches jazz piano and improvisation. He brings to his music instruction more than 30 years as an educator and musician, which include teaching high school English, teaching jazz piano, and leading or playing with numerous groups in the Chicago area. Bill also founded and coordinates, with fellow music educator Paul Nielsen, the Grayslake Jazz Combo Workshop. This summer program provides opportunities for young jazz students to play in a combo setting. These days he is playing with the College of Lake County Jazz Ensemble and taking his own playing to a new level through weekly lessons with one of the area's best jazz piano teachers--definitely an opportunity to explore his own "creative growth through improvisation."