Double-majoring in Film and Media Studies and Sociology at Yale meant Katrina was constantly analyzing texts — pulling apart narrative structure, identifying rhetorical strategies, and building arguments about everything from novels to screenplays. She brings that same close-reading discipline to hi...

Whether the assignment is a five-paragraph essay or a rhetorical analysis, the underlying skill is the same: building a clear argument from textual evidence. Nicole's teaching experience in schools abroad gave her practice explaining grammar, structure, and argumentation to students with very differ...

A linguistics background from NYU — plus ongoing graduate work in Applied Linguistics — means Naama understands English at the structural level: why a sentence sounds awkward, how syntax shapes meaning, and what makes an argument cohere on the page. She channels that into teaching students to write ...

Travis teaches English with an emphasis on grammar mechanics and argument structure — two areas where his 1530 SAT performance in reading and writing gives him concrete credibility. He approaches essays by working backward from the thesis, showing students how every paragraph should earn its place t...

As a classically trained actor with a Harvard English degree, Ema tackles Shakespeare's plays from a performance-driven angle — reading speeches aloud, unpacking meter, and asking what a character actually wants in a given scene. That approach extends to the rest of the high school English curriculu...

Helen's journalism master's from USC trained her to write clean, purposeful prose under pressure — a skill she now uses to teach high schoolers how to tighten their own essays and cut the filler that buries their arguments. Her neuroscience and pharmacology background means she's equally comfortable...

Theatre training at Northwestern taught Zach something most English tutors don't practice daily — how to read a text for subtext, intention, and the specific choices a writer makes to produce an effect on an audience. He brings that actor's instinct to literary analysis, teaching students to dig int...

As a section editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books and literary manager for two theater companies, John lives inside the kinds of texts high school students encounter — essays, plays, novels, and poetry. He teaches close reading techniques that sharpen thesis development and analytical writing,...

Ten years of classroom teaching — from second graders learning to form paragraphs to fifth graders tackling their first real essays — gave Claire a clear map of where foundational reading and writing skills break down as texts get harder in high school. Her music training at Pomona also sharpened so...

Between analytical essays, class discussions, and timed writing prompts, high school English demands both close reading and clear argumentation. Jacob tackles both by teaching students to annotate strategically — pulling specific quotes and connecting them to a thesis — so that writing an essay feel...