Award-Winning Social Studies Tutors serving Raleigh-Durham, NC

I'm Alexandra but you can call me Ally; I am a freshmen engineering major at the University of Notre Dame so I'm a huge math and science nerd. I'm excited to work with new clients and establish relations with existing ones to help everyone reach their full academic potential!

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes and asking questions as long as you learn from them.

...with folks of all ages to learn. I've been tutoring in some capacity for over 15 years. At first, I primarily taught swim lessons, and then, overtime, I branched out to a myriad of subjects from rock climbing to essay writing and test prep. These days I focus on literacy, organization/executive function skills, test prep, and writing. I have taught middle school social studies and high school environmental science. I currently work with middle school...

...from various cultural contexts. Flexibility is a key characteristic to effective communication. I endeavor to learn about the students and families so that I can best communicate with them in a way which is most comfortable. This requires careful and intentional listening skills. I use various methods of communication to best reach students, keeping an open-door attitude and creating an environment conducive for student learning. I believe strongly that faculty who connect with students and...

...bit of a struggle, but I persevered and am now an expert in the field. Given my own uphill battle with the subject, it is now one of my favorite areas to tutor I have a great deal of sympathy for anyone struggling with stats, but I promise that I can help you! I have spent a great deal of my time traveling through Europe and have conducted fieldwork in Spain, France, Hungary, and Italy.

After serving as an intelligence officer in the Air Force for seven years, I completed a doctoral program in American Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill. Since then, I have edited a literary journal, managed a research center, and published several peer-reviewed articles on American autobiography, fiction, and poetry. I live with my wife and three daughters in Durham, North Carolina.

...Italian Renaissance, and concentrate on the Republic of Venice, which some popular accounts claim lasted for a thousand years, from 797 to 1797. I think old-fashioned political and diplomatic history is the cat's meow! I disagree profoundly with the view that it is not relevant to the study of history today. I also like to mold and fashion Renaissance people among my students, drawing for them the connections e.g. between mathematics and other disciplines, such...