Between thesis construction, MLA formatting, textual evidence, and the difference between summary and analysis, high school English asks students to juggle a lot at once. Michael's background running Writing Center sessions with college students means he's used to diagnosing exactly where someone's ...

Ten years in New York City classrooms — general ed, self-contained, CTT, resource room — means Ivan has taught English Literature to just about every kind of learner a high school can put in front of him. He's especially sharp at adapting how he teaches close reading and literary analysis depending ...

Two master's degrees in Comparative Literature mean Dan has spent years doing the deep textual analysis that high school English is building toward — tracking how metaphor, narrative structure, and authorial voice work across traditions and languages. He pairs that literary training with a math back...

Reading and writing are intertwined in Gabriela's approach — she treats every novel or essay assignment as a chance to sharpen both skills simultaneously, drawing on the analytical habits she's built as an African American Studies concentrator at Harvard. Her own coursework demands constant close re...

Graduate work in public health at Columbia means Laura reads and writes dense, evidence-heavy prose daily — a skill she channels into teaching high schoolers how to build literary arguments that actually hold up under scrutiny. Her biology and anthropology training at Fordham added a second layer: t...

Gregory's International Political Economy major at Fordham meant writing analytical essays constantly — breaking down complex arguments, synthesizing sources, and defending a thesis under pressure, which is exactly what high school English asks students to do with literary texts instead of policy pa...

Graduating from the Bronx High School of Science and then studying neuroscience and philosophy at Mount Holyoke gave Zarrin an unusual combination — rigorous scientific reading paired with the kind of close textual analysis and argumentative writing that philosophy demands. She brings that dual trai...

Jonathan's math degree might seem like an odd fit for English, but years of teaching college essays, literature, and grammar have given him a clear method for breaking down the writing process — especially the structural side, where students need to organize claims and evidence into paragraphs that ...

Scaffolding is a word educators love to throw around, but Joshua actually builds it into every session — starting with targeted questions about a passage before asking students to formulate claims, then layering in evidence selection and analytical writing one skill at a time. His English degree fro...

Studying philosophy at Fordham gave Ava a toolkit that maps directly onto high school English: constructing thesis-driven essays, analyzing rhetoric, and reading complex texts for both meaning and craft. She tackles everything from timed in-class essays to close readings of challenging prose and poe...