The Learning Island offers group and private tutoring service. Our goal is to prepare students for the SAT and ACT exams. While other tutoring centers are concerned with getting students in and out, our main focus is to help the student perform their best when taking these exams. History Established in 2011. The Learning Island was designed from the ground up to be different. It was started by Billy, a teacher of 15 years in the Atlanta area who saw a desperate need for a fresh approach. Tutoring services have become focused on churning students through a canned curriculum to maximize profits. Expensive, gimmicky add-ons and vague, arbitrary promises of improvement have become the norm. He wanted to get back to what truly matters: the students and the teachers.