Decoding a passage and actually comprehending it are two different skills, and the gap between them is where many readers stall. Miakia's master's-level training in education informs how she teaches active reading strategies — predicting, questioning, and summarizing — that turn passive page-scannin...

Decoding a text is one skill; understanding what it's doing and why is another. Jenny's multilingual teaching background — spanning Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English — gives her a deep toolkit for unpacking vocabulary in context, identifying main ideas, and teaching students to read actively ...

Common Core Language Arts training across public, charter, and private school settings gave Juan a unusually detailed map of how reading standards shift from elementary through middle school — where a third grader matching characters to events becomes a seventh grader tracking theme development acro...

Struggling readers often aren't lacking intelligence — they're missing specific strategies for handling unfamiliar vocabulary, tracking multiple characters, or identifying an author's argument. Hayley builds these skills through targeted practice with real texts, adjusting complexity as confidence g...

Two years of teaching elementary students who struggled with literacy gave McKenna a deep understanding of how reading breaks down — whether the issue is decoding, fluency, or comprehension. She builds lessons around specific strategies like predicting, summarizing, and questioning the text, adjusti...

I'm a PhD student in Modern European History at Rutgers University, and I recently did an exchange year at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. I have 8 years of experiencing in tutoring and previously worked for the Educational Testing Service in test development for the SAT, PSAT and pre-AP Engl...

I'm an advocate of the "Learn One, Do One, Teach One" methodology of tutoring, and have seen it transform students academic confidence and learning efficiency. I look forward to helping you tackle your next challenge!

I am a graduate of Arizona State University where I earned my Masters in Emergency Management/Homeland Security and my Bachelors in Psychology. I love working with students and watching their passion grow for learning as they start to understand new concepts. I have experience in building individual...

I am grateful for the opportunity to serve students as they seek to better themselves and fortify a path of success for their careers. I make a commitment to every student to be respectful, conscientious, and diligent. It is a privilege to be an asset to your future.

I am a lifelong learner and love helping others enjoy learning. Languages are my passion and I help students succeed by putting lessons in a real-world context. Whenever possible, I use film clips, journal articles, songs and literature, so that my students begin to think in the new language and not...