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Natasha W.

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Most people who struggle to communicate — on paper, in a room, or in a relationship — aren't lacking intelligence or effort. They're lacking someone who understands how they're wired and meets them there. That's the work I do, and I've been doing it longer than I've been in a classroom.
Before teaching, I spent years in applied behavior analysis and became a certified DISC behavioral consultant, trained in the science of how people process information, make decisions, and communicate with...

Most people who struggle to communicate — on paper, in a room, or in a relationship — aren't lacking intelligence or effort. They're lacking someone who understands how they're wired and meets them there. That's the work I do, and I've been doing it longer than I've been in a classroom.
Before teaching, I spent years in applied behavior analysis and became a certified DISC behavioral consultant, trained in the science of how people process information, make decisions, and communicate with the world around them. I have used that framework with individuals, families, and professional teams — helping people understand themselves and the people around them in ways that actually change how they operate. I bring that same lens to every student I work with.
In the classroom, I have taught elementary and middle school ELA, working daily with readers and writers across a wide range of levels and learning styles. I specialize in writing at every stage — from a third grader learning to build a paragraph to a professional learning to communicate with clarity and confidence, to a high school senior crafting a college essay that finally sounds like them. I work with students, adults, and anyone in between who has something to say and needs help saying it well.
I work one on one, remotely, and I adapt completely to the person in front of me. If you are looking for someone who will understand how you or your student thinks before deciding how to teach — this is the right fit.


Education

Waldorf University
Psychology
  • Licensed teacher

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ADHD

ADHD

My background in applied behavior analysis gave me direct experience working with students with ADHD, understanding how executive function challenges, attention regulation, and impulsivity affect learning and academic performance. In the classroom and in tutoring settings, I have supported students with ADHD by building structured, engaging sessions that work with their neurological strengths rather than fighting against them — shorter focused intervals, immediate feedback, clear expectations, and meaningful variety. I understand that ADHD looks different in every student, and I take time at the start of every relationship to understand the specific profile of the individual I am working with before deciding on an approach. My goal is always to help students with ADHD build genuine skills and confidence, not just survive their current assignment.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

I spent several years working in applied behavior analysis before transitioning to the classroom, where I worked directly with students across the autism spectrum to develop communication, learning, and behavioral skills. My background in behavioral science gives me a foundational understanding of how students with ASD process information, respond to instruction, and build new skills over time. I approach tutoring for students with ASD by identifying each student's specific learning profile and designing sessions that work with their strengths rather than around their challenges. I have supported students across a range of needs — from those who require structured, predictable routines to those who are highly capable but need support with executive function, written expression, and social communication in academic settings.
Common Core

Common Core

As a practicing ELA teacher I plan and deliver instruction aligned to Common Core State Standards daily, with deep familiarity with the reading, writing, language, and speaking standards across elementary and middle school grade bands. I help students and parents understand what Common Core standards actually require — which is often quite different from how homework and assessments appear on the surface — and I build tutoring sessions around the specific standards a student is struggling to meet. I also support parents who want to understand how to help their child at home within a Common Core framework, translating the academic language of standards into practical, usable guidance. My approach is always to connect the standard to a skill the student can actually use beyond the classroom.
Cooking

Cooking

I am an experienced home cook with a passion for teaching practical kitchen skills to beginners and intermediate cooks who want to build confidence and creativity in the kitchen. My teaching background means I naturally break complex techniques into manageable, sequential steps and adapt my instruction to the pace and learning style of the person I am working with. I focus on building foundational skills — knife work, flavor development, technique over recipe-following — so that students leave sessions with transferable knowledge rather than just the ability to reproduce a single dish. Whether someone wants to learn to cook for their family, eat healthier, or simply stop feeling intimidated by a stove, I bring the same patience and encouragement to the kitchen that I bring to every other subject I teach.
Creative Writing

Creative Writing

Creative writing is both my professional practice and a subject I teach with genuine enthusiasm, because I believe that learning to write creatively develops the critical thinking, voice, and communication skills that serve students in every other area of their lives. I work with writers of all ages and at all stages — elementary students discovering storytelling for the first time, middle and high schoolers developing their craft, adults pursuing personal or professional writing projects — across fiction, creative nonfiction, personal narrative, and poetry. My approach starts with helping a writer identify what they are actually trying to say before addressing how they are saying it, because the most common writing problem I encounter is not technical — it is a writer who has not yet given themselves permission to have a point of view. My teaching and behavioral background together give me an unusually clear picture of where a writer is stuck and what specific intervention will move them.
Elementary (K-6th)

Elementary (K-6th)

I have taught at both the elementary and middle school levels, giving me a clear understanding of the developmental progression of reading and writing skills from kindergarten through sixth grade. My classroom experience spans foundational phonics and early literacy through transitional reading, paragraph writing, and beginning essay structure — the full arc of elementary literacy development. I bring a behavioral science background to my tutoring practice, which means I assess not just what a student knows but how they learn, what creates barriers for them, and what conditions allow them to make the fastest progress. I work well with elementary students who have fallen behind grade level, those who are advanced and need enrichment, and those whose learning differences require a more individualized and patient approach.
Essay Writing

Essay Writing

I teach essay writing daily as a middle school ELA teacher, working with students across a wide range of skill levels — from those building their first paragraph to advanced writers developing argumentative and analytical essays. My approach focuses on helping students find their own voice and structure their thinking clearly before worrying about mechanics, because confident writers produce better work than technically corrected ones. I have coached students through personal narratives, persuasive essays, research-based writing, and college application essays, adapting my methods to the individual writer in front of me. My background in behavioral science informs how I identify where a student's writing process breaks down and what targeted support will move them forward most efficiently.
Executive Functioning

Executive Functioning

Executive functioning challenges are at the root of most academic struggles I have encountered in both behavioral work and the classroom — not a lack of intelligence or effort, but a gap in the skills that allow students to plan, organize, initiate, and follow through. My background in applied behavior analysis gave me a clinical framework for understanding and addressing executive function deficits, and my classroom experience has shown me how those deficits play out in real academic environments. I work with students on building systems for task initiation, time management, organization, working memory strategies, and emotional regulation in academic contexts. My approach is practical and individualized — I do not apply a generic productivity system to every student but instead work to understand the specific executive function profile of each person and build strategies that fit their actual life.
Fiction Writing

Fiction Writing

I teach creative writing as part of my ELA curriculum and have a deep personal investment in the craft of fiction — its structure, its voice, and its ability to tell truths that nonfiction cannot always reach. I work with fiction writers at all stages, from students writing their first short story to adults developing novel-length projects, focusing on the elements that separate compelling fiction from technically correct but lifeless prose: character interiority, scene construction, dialogue that reveals rather than explains, and narrative tension that keeps a reader turning pages. I am a direct and honest reader of student work — I will tell you what is not working and exactly why — but I am equally committed to helping every writer find and protect what is uniquely theirs on the page. My behavioral background also informs how I coach writers through the resistance, avoidance, and self-doubt that derail most writing projects before they are finished.
Praxis

Praxis

As a licensed practicing teacher who has successfully completed Praxis examinations, I understand both the content demands and the test-taking strategies required to pass. I support candidates preparing for the Praxis Core Academic Skills assessments in reading, writing, and mathematics, as well as subject-specific assessments in English Language Arts. I approach Praxis prep by first diagnosing where a candidate's gaps are, then building a targeted study plan that focuses time and energy where it will produce the most score improvement. I work particularly well with candidates who have strong content knowledge but struggle with test anxiety, pacing, or the specific format of Praxis question types.
Public Speaking

Public Speaking

I am a certified DISC behavioral consultant with years of experience training individuals and teams on communication styles, presence, and persuasive delivery. My work as a public speaker, classroom teacher, and professional trainer has given me a practical understanding of what separates speakers who connect with their audience from those who simply present information. I coach students and adults on vocal delivery, body language, organization of ideas, managing anxiety, and adapting their communication style to different audiences and contexts. Whether a student is preparing for a class presentation, a speech competition, a job interview, or a professional speaking role, I meet them where they are and build from there.
Special Needs

Special Needs

Before entering the classroom I spent years working in applied behavior analysis, providing direct support to individuals with a wide range of special needs including autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disabilities, developmental delays, and behavioral and emotional challenges. That clinical foundation gave me a working understanding of how different neurological and developmental profiles affect the way students receive, process, and demonstrate knowledge — and more importantly, how to adapt instruction to meet each student where they actually are rather than where a curriculum assumes they should be. In the classroom I have continued working with students with IEPs, 504 plans, and a variety of learning differences, collaborating with families and support teams to ensure academic progress is built on genuine skill development rather than accommodation alone. I bring the same individualized, evidence-informed approach to tutoring that I developed through years of behavioral work — identifying each student's specific profile first, then building a learning experience around their strengths.
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