...I earned a corporate-sponsored Advanced Managed Program certificate from Harvard Business School. Spanning forty years, my career covered both technical and managerial roles, up through senior managing director / senior vice president in large corporations. To achieve that level of management demanded strong verbal communication skills - both written and oral. (read more)
...This program teaches students how to encode (spell) as they learn to decode. For students having difficulty with reading comprehension I teach a number of reading comprehension strategies enabling students to construct meaning from text. Using these methods I help students achieve independent and strategic reading skills. (read more)
...I am a published author with a bachelor's degree in creative writing and literature studies. I currently run the Writing Help @ Night tutoring program at Hampshire College and have been teaching one-on-one for 5+ years. English is very close to my heart and I strive to share that passion with others. (read more)
...I bring my passion for writing into every tutoring session. No matter where a student is academically--engaged, high-achieving, disengaged, reluctant, frustrated-- I meet them at the point where they are at in their process, and I guide them. I have so many tweaks, suggestions, insights, and tools to share that will immediately improve the student's writing. (read more)
...I am also happy to work on various writing pieces, even college essays. I also work with students on reading and study skills.I have taught English for the last 12 years in which writing was a major component of the curriculum. I work with students on their content, organization, elaboration, editing and revising. (read more)