I love helping students discover and build their skills. I've worked with young adults for 20 years at the college level, and I worked with teenage boys for around ten years when I was director of the nonprofit Boys to Men Mentoring Network of Minnesota. Recently, I've substituted in almost all K-12 grades to get a better understanding of what our children are experiencing in the classroom. (read more)
...I have worked as a newspaper editor, though, which involves helping reporters with their writing skills. Editors not only proofread for spelling and grammar, but help structure writing so that it is clear, concise and--when appropriate--entertaining. Both my parents were teachers and my brother is a professor at St. (read more)