"Hello, I am Mrs. D., your positive thinking, smiling tutor! I achieved my degree in Communication Studies from California State University at Northridge but received my real education by homeschooling my own children and tutoring students for the past 20 years. Tutoring my own students as well as countless others gives me the experience necessary to meet your student where they are and help them excel to reach their educational goals. I have years of experience working with charter school students, from one on one tutoring to classroom experience with elementary to high school subjects. I specialize in IEW and EB writing methods, ELA, mathematics through Algebra I, US History, and public speaking. This year I have mastered teaching and tutoring on-line, while not always ideal I find I can be very effective and engaging. The most rewarding part of tutoring is watching a student achieve their goals. By breaking a difficult task into understandable and achievable parts we can accomplish anything together.

I have tutored many elementary students utilizing different curriculum and styles. I have several years of experience teaching Pre-Algebra in a classroom and private tutoring situations. I have been teaching Algebra I in the classroom for two years and enjoy tutoring students in this subject making the problems that look the worst, as easy as when you learned to count! My students and I share a phrase, "It's so easy, it's hard" meaning that the problem is often so easy that you think it is difficult.

Having participated in the Speech and Debate team in high school, I won many local speech competitions in expository, duo interpretation, and team debate. As a college student, I was a member of the debate team for CSUN and even traveled for competitions. As a high school teacher for a charter school, I taught the debate class for two years and enjoy public speaking.

I have been tutoring students in the Institute for Excellence in Writing method for more than a decade and the Evidence-Based method" less...