About Us

Are you tired of battling your children when it’s time to read or do spelling homework?

Do you feel helpless when your children struggle in school because you’re not sure how to help them succeed?

Do you feel like the school doesn’t understand your child as a learner and isn’t actually teaching them to read and write better?

Let me tell you an open secret I have learned after more than 10 years of teaching public school. School is not always fair. In the classroom, often, everyone gets the same thing – the same instruction, the same assignment, the same test. As a teacher, I could often see exactly what my student needed, but I couldn’t drop everything and give it to them when they needed it. Then I started tutoring and found exactly what I wanted: a way to give students the right instruction at the right time to help them overcome their reading and writing struggles!

So why should you consider working with a tutor?

We can:

• provide evidence-based instruction in phonics, reading fluency, comprehension and spelling
• help your child become more confident in their skills
• help your child improve their grades
• fill in the little skill gaps that accumulate and make everything so much harder!

By working one-on-one with students, we can explore their interests and meet their challenges. We stretch children to build on their strengths and support them in the areas where they are weaker. Sometimes filling gaps in a few key skills is all a student needs! Other times, steady practice brings them closer and closer to their goals.

I love tutoring – being a detective, coach, cheerleader and learning partner all at the same time. Together with the student, we figure out how he or she learns best and we build a toolkit they can use for years to come. With each student, we use a customized combination of approaches, including Orton-Gillingham multi-sensory reading instruction, self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) for writing, technology, and a variety of tools for building fluency, vocabulary and reading comprehension.

We have worked with students from kindergarten through graduate school, on topics ranging from basic phonics and pre-reading skills, to reading and writing in all subject areas, to test preparation.

Most of our students, though, are struggling with transitions: from elementary school to middle school, middle to high school, high school to college. They need an extra boost to meet the rising expectations at each grade level.