Deborah: Hinsdale tutor

Certified Tutor

I began tutoring while I was a business school student at Columbia in the 1990s. While I loved working in finance, I found that I enjoyed teaching even more. Nothing beats hearing a student say, "Oooh! Now I get it!" It feels wonderful to help students achieve their goals and to maximize their success.

I love, love, love teaching and tutoring math because I think the subject is so valuable! Think about all of the wonderful things that we have because of math. I like to think that by empowering each of my students to be a "math person", I am giving them the ability to be one of the next generation's brilliant leaders, inventors, tech innovators or engineers.

In addition to attending Columbia Business School, I earned my undergraduate degree at Duke University (Economics) and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Montclair State University in NJ.

I am committed to my students' success and will invest the time to make sure that our tutoring time is as productive as possible. I have taught math at the high school level for nearly 10 years and I have developed and refined the best resources to help support a student's learning. As an experienced teacher, I am familiar with many different learning styles and will personalize our work together to best fit your individual needs.

I feel my teaching and tutoring style has been strengthened by being a parent of a teenager. Today's teenagers have so much going between school, extracurriculars and tutoring. I understand the demands on their time and will work to make tutoring time effective and fun.

Outside of teaching and tutoring, I am an avid rock climber and love spending time on the water. This summer I picked up paddle boarding and surfing!