...That score helped me get acceptance letters to several highly competitive PhD programs, and it was one of the reasons that I was awarded two years of fellowship funding from the graduate school I ultimately chose to attend. My experiences with standardized testing taught me that great test score... (read more)
...It requires explicit instruction, application, and practice. I have been an English / Language Arts teacher, a reading teacher, and an intervention reading teacher. I have a B.A. in English and Sociology, plus my M.Ed. in English Education. (read more)
...I have written short novels, created solo performance pieces, and made fun masks. While I was abroad in Paris, I trained in physical performance - this included mime, acrobatics, trapeze, and classic dance. My mother is French and my father is American, so we lived in France for the first seven years of my life before moving to the United States. (read more)
...I have a strong background in teaching students who speak languages other than English at home, and students struggling to make sense of academic skills and concepts. As a tutor, I emphasize: academic vocabulary, using hands-on, concrete experiences, and maintaining a light-hearted, ‘risk free’ ... (read more)