
Meet the Founder

Krys-Darcelle Dumas
Founder
Think-Top Educational Institute
The Problem I Could Not Ignore
Too many children in Trinidad move through the education system without anyone ever finding out where they actually are. They are placed by age, passed by assumption, and prepared for exams rather than equipped for learning. By the time a family realises something is wrong, years have already been lost.
Think-Top Educational Institute exists because I knew the system alone and as is was not enough.
Who I Am
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I am a UWI-trained Literature and Linguistics educator with over 14 years of teaching experience across primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. I have lectured at the University of the West Indies and have held a full-time teaching post with the Ministry of Education since 2015, teaching English Language and Literature at the secondary level.
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I am also a published writer, a trained communicator, and someone who has spent over a decade studying how language works and how people learn it, or fail to.
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I founded Think-Top Educational Institute in St. Augustine, Trinidad in 2011 on one principle: every child can learn when instruction begins where they actually are, not where a syllabus assumes they should be.
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What I Built and Why
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Think-Top is not a drop-in tutoring service. It is a structured academic institution with a diagnostics-first model, a dedicated Reading Clinic using the Orton-Gillingham methodology, and a teaching team that holds postgraduate qualifications.
Our 99% examination pass rate is not a marketing line. It is the result of 14 years of refusing to guess at what a child needs.
Every student who comes to Think-Top Educational Institute is assessed first. We find out exactly where the gaps are. Then we teach to close them. That process is the same whether a child is preparing for SEA, sitting CSEC, or learning to read for the first time.
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What Drives Me
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I live for the moment a student realises they are more capable than they thought. Not because I told them so, but because the work proved it to them. That moment does not happen by accident. It happens because someone took the time to know that child, find the specific thing standing in their way, and remove it.
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That is what Think-Top Educational Institute was built to do. That is what I show up to do every day.
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I look forward to meeting your family.
Think-Top Educational Institute is now enrolling for 2027 SEA and CSEC examinations. WhatsApp 868-483-7509 to apply.
Education
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The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
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BA Literatures in English with Linguistics
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Communication Studies
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- London Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Institute of Training and Development (INTAD)Certification
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Marketing​
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Advertising
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Public Relations
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Teaching Experience
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Secondary school teacher 2013 - Present
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University of the West Indies - Tutor 2011 - 2018
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Private Tutor 2011 - Present
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S.E.A Language Arts and Creative Writing
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Literacy and Oracy Skills
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Vocabulary and Spelling
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Adult CSEC Tutor - 2011 - Present
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English Language Proficiency Test (ELPT) Preparation Private Tutor - 2016 - Present
