I have other thirty-five years of teaching/tutoring experience beginning in 1977 as the manager/tutor of the Stanford Tutoring Service in Palo Alto, California.
There are few things more gratifying to me than the look of satisfaction in the eyes of a student for whom the math mystery has been revealed! I have over 70 hours on Wyzant and each new student, each new challenge, brings me tremendous satisfaction!
I am passionate about learning and about sharing that passion with students.
Brenda hasn’t set a schedule.
Featured review
Very knowledgeable and great tutor
Brenda helped me with the ACT Prep subjects in English and Math. She taught me strategies for time and content.
Gina , 9 lessons with Brenda
Talented Instructor
Brenda is a fantastic teacher. Really felt like she was building my daughter’s confidence and showed her how to build on what she knows. So relieved to have found such an excellent teacher!
Diane, 6 lessons with Brenda
experienced and knowledgeable tutor
She is a great tutor! Her teaching was experienced and motivating my son's interest. I was impressed by her professionalism and knowledge. Thank you, Ms. Brenda!
Jihye, 26 lessons with Brenda
Polite, punctual, reliable, and my daughter enjoys working with her.
Brenda has been an excellent tutor so far. She is assisting my daughter with geometry tutoring and we will soon be moving into biology and study/test-taking skills. We highly recommend Brenda.
Chelsea, 2 lessons with Brenda
Knowledgeable and very patient.
Brenda is very good at connecting with children. My granddaughter is struggling with math and Brenda has done a great job introducing new ways to study and enjoy Math. My granddaughter looks forward to her sessions with Brenda!
Grace, 7 lessons with Brenda
She’s wonderful!
My sister told me “I love her so much. She’s the best teacher ever”. Brenda really knows how to connect with her pupils and tailor each lesson to their needs. Thank you, Brenda!
Cyrena, 2 lessons with Brenda
All Star Champion of Student Agency
Brenda was welcoming, warm, professional, attentive and insightful. She arrived prepared, connected through conversation with our son Cameron by taking a sincere interest in him as a human being and learning more about his backstory, challenges, motivations and goals. Mrs. Brenda M. is the friendly, small town values neighborly mentor who exudes efficiency and immediately gets down to the business of empowering the student. Most impressed that she praised his “effort” and provided mission critical “intermittent reinforcement” —- Our goals as parents also are to champion Cameron leading his own learning, to provide the resources to empower him developing student agency or the capacity to develop a growth mindset, grit and ownership of his own learning. We are on a wonderful journey CO-piloted by Brenda to reinforce self-exploration, teaching him to reflect on his strengths or challenges and understanding the strategies and resources that he has in his toolkit. Brenda has command mastery of nurturing mentoring and leadership development. Further goals are to him develop strategies to succeed consistently in academic and life endeavors. Core Strategy Mission • Get wise and achieve passionate autodidact level of learning. • Become super curious. Ask lots of questions. More questions. Keep asking questions. • Collaborate on a daily basis. • Gather information and know how to search. • Figure out what is most important. • Write well, think critically. • Distinguish FACT from OPINION. • Be an independent learner. • Develop moonshot thinking • Self-Expansion and growth mindset Additional strategies including delayed gratification, grit, persistence, taking calculated risks, achieving full autonomy and developing the self awareness to understand that by leveraging “effort” he is completely in control of his academic and life success. For now we have contracted 3 sessions per week. We welcome more sessions and a long term collaborative relationship with Brenda. Thankful and blessed to have connected with Brenda.
Rhonda , 3 lessons with Brenda
Brenda saved the day!
Brenda is wonderful. She was able to squeeze us in on very short notice, and followed up after the lesson, too. My son needed to find out what he was doing wrong on his last Trig/PreCalc test of the year, so that he could take another version of the test for makeup credit. My son, who is extremely shy/introverted, felt very comfortable working with her. I am very glad I contacted Brenda, and would definitely do so again.
Katherine, 1 lesson with Brenda
Couldn’t be happier
Miss Brenda has been working with our son for 4 weeks now. After his last session he seemed almost giddy. When I asked what had made him so happy he said, “I’m finally getting it.” Thank you Miss Brenda for all your help!
Melissa, 8 lessons with Brenda
Knowledgeable and pleasant!
My son enjoyed his first session with Brenda for writing. She was very patient and keeps my 8 year old son focused and on track. We look forward to the next session!
Yumi, 57 lessons with Brenda
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