"I am committed to building each student's skills and love of learning! This can only be done effectively with mix of knowledge, empathy, trust, and engagement. Your student's strengths, needs, and learning style is what drives my approach to tutoring. The positive rapport I build with each student skyrockets learning and facilitates progress that lasts! I have been teaching for 15 years and holds three teaching certifications that compliment each other. I am an NYU and Providence College Graduate and am Orton Gillingham, Wilson, and Visualizing and Verbalizing trained. I engage in ongoing professional development to build a tool box of the most effective ways to teach my students. As a part of the Math Leadership Team in my district, I find innovative and effective mathematics instructional methods . My creative and evidence based techniques inspire a sense of academic adventure and risk taking.

I have worked with ages six through adult and I have been able to adapt my tutoring approach to each student. What does a session with me look like? I use individualized, specialized, multisensory instruction to help students learn. For some students this involves systematic instruction for spelling, reading, numerical operations, and math problem solving. For other students, I engage as many modalities, senses, and strategies as we can to expand their vocabulary, build comprehension of texts, or synthesize information and write using their own unique voice. My specialized training in reading and writing helps students to see the big picture and/or paint a picture with their words. A typical session with me looks like this:

1.) Goal setting

2.) A math or Literacy activity to activate prior knowledge

3.) An interactive mini-lesson, followed by guided practice

3.) Independent practice with teacher feedback.

4.) Review and reflection.

I look forward to hearing from you about how we can best collaborate towards your student's learning!" less...