...I love explaining math as a language with its own parts of speech, sentence structure and vocabulary. There are many ways to count things and mathematical reasons for why formulas are the way they are. I give students an intuitive sense for what the formulas mean, in addition to useful applications of the formulas. (read more)
...I’ve been a business owner, an investor, and an accounting consultant. It gives me a unique perspective to help make things more real, and keep them simple and practical. I have also trained a number of people in Quickbooks and NetSuite accounting software. (read more)
...My reading tutoring experience continued when my own teenage kids started school. I volunteered in their classrooms for years. For the past 5-1/2 years I've been employed by a public school district, where most of my experience has been serving as a paraeducator at elementary, middle and high school levels. (read more)
...During the first trip to Costa Rica I was a novice in Spanish but my passion to study the language was truly sparked on that trip. In Puerto Rico, nearly two years later, I was the officially appointed interpreter of our 13-person group. I had never felt so in love with language than when I was thinking in both English and Spanish simultaneously. (read more)