Thank you for taking a moment to learn about me. I hold a master's degree in elementary education and a bachelor's degree in business administration. My graduate work focused on how children build academic skills during the elementary years, how a student moves from counting to place value to larger operations, how phonemic awareness becomes fluent reading, and why a gap at one stage causes trouble two or three grades later.
I taught sixth grade full time for two full school years,...
Thank you for taking a moment to learn about me. I hold a master's degree in elementary education and a bachelor's degree in business administration. My graduate work focused on how children build academic skills during the elementary years, how a student moves from counting to place value to larger operations, how phonemic awareness becomes fluent reading, and why a gap at one stage causes trouble two or three grades later.
I taught sixth grade full time for two full school years, carrying a class through math and reading while tracking each student's individual gaps and keeping parents informed about progress. I also substitute taught across grade levels from kindergarten through sixth, which gave me a sense of the entire elementary arc. I have seen what first graders are expected to master, what fourth grade demands, and where the curriculum starts leaving students behind. Substituting also meant earning an unfamiliar child's trust within minutes, which is essentially what a first tutoring session requires.
My approach starts with diagnosis, because a struggle rarely begins where the student thinks it does. A child stuck on fractions is often really stuck on division. A student who hates word problems usually reads well but has never been shown how to turn a sentence into an equation. I work through problems alongside the student rather than lecturing, and I keep going until they can explain the reasoning back to me in their own words.
I specialize in elementary math and reading for kindergarten through sixth grade, I work with students individually, and I always tell parents what we covered and what is worth reinforcing at home. I am also a parent myself, so I know what a frustrating homework night feels like at the kitchen table. If your child is falling behind, bored, or simply needs someone patient to sit down with them, I would welcome the chance to help.
