"I love teaching all ages of students and helping them triumph. With over 1000 hours of successful tutoring and one on one teaching, more than 17 years of innovative classroom teaching, and 10 years of graduate research and training in curriculum and instruction, I have developed the most effective techniques to help students of all levels and learning styles engage and excel. In approaching each student as an individual with unique skills and needs, I create success for even those learners who have struggled to grasp it.

Subject specialty and credentials:

Testing: SAT, LSAT - In addition to instruction, you will receive custom made PowerPoints of my strategies, tactics, and other useful information;

GRE, GED - I have tutored all of these and currently teach for a testing company

Spanish: I am a native speaker; taught HS Spanish for 6 years (Spanish 1 - A.P. Language and A.P. Lit - all AP students score 4s or 5s); former translator and interpreter; many successful years one on one Spanish teaching

Math: Original major at Duke was Electrical Engineering; currently teach SAT math; taught math 5th grade through Algebra 2; tutored math for over two decades

Writing/English/Language Arts: Former newspaper columnist; prize-winning essayist; researcher published in academic journal; I have assigned and graded 1000s of essays and research papers; currently teach SAT and LSAT writing prep

Reading comprehension: Currently teach SAT and LSAT reading comprehension; learned directly from and worked under one of the leading reading specialists in the Southeast; started working with students in reading comprehension over two decades ago (elementary - college/adult)

Social studies/history/government/sociology/economics. etc: Have taught these subjects for over 15 years; wrote state curriculum for world history; History and Political Science major at Duke; all my AP students in US History or Government scored 4s or 5s

Praxis - Test prep expert; Masters in Teaching - Emory; Ed.S. in Teacher Leadership - Piedmont College; PhD can" less...