...I was a teacher in private schools for about 12 years and then began helping families at home during Covid lockdowns. I tutor students in grades PreK to fourth as a high impact early literacy tutor and tutor students in-person and online in all elementary subjects. I continue to take professional development courses to stay on top of current research and teaching trends. (read more)
...I have a lot of patience and numerous easy-to-understand tools that will make you feel better about what you have to do. My M.A. is in Humanities: Composition and Rhetoric. This means I teach writing as a process rather than as a formula. (read more)
...Despite my age, I have experience with college essay writing/editing. These past few months, I edited countless friends' essays, and the majority of them were admitted to the colleges that I helped them write essays for. I personally wrote 61 essays during my own college admission process, and I was accepted into a college with an 8% acceptance rate. (read more)
I taught English for forty years in high school (and two years for Syracuse University). I have been retired since 2011 and find that I miss the joy of helping students understand literature more fully, along with assisting them in bettering their writing skills. What I enjoyed the most about teac... (read more)
...I have a BA in English - Secondary Education from Penn State Harrisburg, and I have a Master's in Education: Adult Education & Training from University of Phoenix. My teaching license is expired, but all of my clearances are up-to-date. I did not find a teaching job right out of college, so I fell into higher education instead. (read more)