Award-Winning Tutors from Texas State University-San Marcos

My name is Bethany Dismuke. I am currently a teacher in Texas. I graduated from Texas State University and am currently enrolled get my graduate degree. I love working on reading, writing, and grammar! I believe every learner is different and we should aim to meet students where they are! I can't wait to work with you! I love reading, writing, and grammar! Outside of learning, I love Boston Terriers, Taylor Swift, and Netflix!

I have been tutoring students in both high school and college in everything ranging from basic algebra to advanced calculus. As a student pursuing a degree in mathematics I am passionate about the study and enjoy sharing my passion and my knowledge with others. I am well equipped to help improve a student's understanding and ability in a variety of fields of math. I have flexible scheduling availability and can work around a variety of schedules.

I am currently an undergraduate at Texas state university. I am receiving my bachelors in Business with a focus on finance, and a minor in pre-law. I volunteer in a non-profit program called "Advantage Academy"; students in low income communities receive a mentor and a tutor to improve English and any subject matter that they struggle in. I have tutored for 4 years now, I can tutor in a broad range of subjects but specialize in mathematics, and Spanish on all levels due to my fluency and experience. I enjoy tutoring students in a range of subjects and try my best to personalize each lesson in accordance to each students learning style and preferences

I am a graduate of Texas A and M International University and Texas State University. I received my bachelors in Political Science with a minor in History from Texas State and a masters in Curriculum and Instruction from TAMIU. Since graduation, I have dedicated my time to being an elementary teacher and paraprofessional. While I tutor a broad range of subjects, I am most passionate about Science and Social Studies. I am a firm believer in the importance of education and know I have the skillset to help others improve their own education. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, taking walks with my family, and playing board games.

I am an English major with a Creative Writing concentration at Texas State University (senior), and I enjoy helping students become more confident readers and writers. My strongest areas include essay planning, thesis development, close reading, literary analysis, research paper structure, sentence clarity, and personal statements. My tutoring style is patient, clear, and step-by-step. I like helping students slow down, understand the assignment, organize their thoughts, and develop their own ideas in a stronger, clearer voice. I believe writing is organized thinking, and many students become less anxious once they can see the structure behind the task. My goal is not to take over a student's work, but to help them build the skills and confidence to write and learn more effectively on their own.

Being an educator has always been a dream of mine. When I began my college career and taking all of the needed courses to obtain my Bachelor's degree in Education, I truly new that my dream of being in the classroom was about to be a reality. Seeing that look on a students face when they "get it", is one of the most rewarding feelings of being a teacher. Having students come up to me that I taught years ago and having them tell me how much they enjoyed having me as their teacher is also a feeling of accomplishment in my career as a teacher.

I have been tutoring for a little over two years. My strengths based approach allows students to build their self-esteem, while teaching them study habits that nurture their independence. I am passionate about every student knowing their worth, and that they are smart.I am currently a senior working toward my BA in Psychology at Texas State University. I plan on pursuing my Masters degree in Social Work within the next year.I have tutored grade school students to graduate students. My specialties are essay writing, essay editing, and psychology. I am a strong advocate for education being a means to a meaningful life; I try to give my appreciation of learning to every student I work with.When I am not tutoring or going to class I enjoy reading, painting, and walking my dog.

A graduate of Texas State University, I was a music teacher and switched to special education in 2013. As a special education teacher, who believes all students can attain goals, I've worked in elementary STAAR grades (Texas 3rd-6th), and life skills K-8. I have also taught resource math for middle school (6-8). I was also an all inclusive grade level teacher for 5th and 6th grades (ELAR, Math, Science, Social Studies). Math, reading, and writing are my specialties, with math being my favorite subject. I have been a teacher of the year and also an administrator with school improvement. I started tutoring while I was in college and continued throughout my educational career. I retired from teaching at the end of the 2024 school year and now tutor online. I look forward to continuing working with scholars and seeing them succeed.

I received my Bachelors in Finance and Masters in Secondary Education at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. During and after my studies, I have been tutoring and teaching high school math students for the past five years. I am a certified Math teacher in the state. Algebra II has been my favorite class to teach and tutor! I believe the skills and reasoning learned in Math will take you a long way in life.Outside of teaching Math, I enjoy playing volleyball and hiking!

My name is Tim Keene. I have been a teacher for 35 years. I have been privately tutoring students for 14 years. I have two Bachelor's degrees from UTSA and a Master's degree from Texas State University. I have worked with students of all ages and abilities. I myself have ADHD and so have intimate knowledge of the challenges faced by students with this condition. My daughter has Expressive Language Disorder. I tutored her throughout elementary school, middle school, high school and college. I worked with her on spelling, reading, writing and grammar. I proofread and edited her papers as well. She now holds two Bachelor's degrees and a Master's degree. I have a lifelong commitment to learning and look forward to working with you.

I Graduated from Texas State University in 2019 with a Bachelor's of Science in Microbiology and minored in biochemistry. After working as a research assistant at UT Health in Houston, I recently moved to Manhattan to begin graduate school. I am currently a PhD student at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. I enjoy learning, sports, exercising, and reading in my free time. I am an ambitious, young academic who aspires to be a research scientist after completing my PhD. I have a passion not only for science, but for learning of all kinds and helping others. This is why I believe through my passion, tutoring young minds in subjects such as math and all sciences can help stimulate their interest and inspire them to pursue these fields into their college education and beyond. I also wish to equip them with great study habits and academic approaches which can translate to all fields of study they may go through and spark any interest in school and learning. Additionally, I feel that through my experience from college and the workforce I can teach students lessons not only concerning the specific subject but ones to help them succeed in school or higher education and in life.

I attended Texas State University, where I earned two Bachelor's of Science, one in Mathematics and the other in Physics, and I continued on to earn my Ph.D. in Mathematics Education. I have been tutoring students in mathematics and physics since 2008, so I have been learning about and refining my teaching methods for over a decade.I view mathematics as a great, inverted pyramid, wherein each new idea is built upon a foundation of interwoven concepts. However, throughout my twelve years of experience working with students, I have found that many students seem to believe that mathematics is merely an ever growing list of discrete facts and that learning mathematics is a matter of just memorizing these facts in preparation to regurgitate information for exams. In my view, students who have been exposed to this disconnected view of mathematics are often overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information and seek to memorize only the particular steps and equations necessary to solve each type of problem, rather than trying to understand the overarching structure and reasoning that can be applied in a wide variety of contexts to solve many different problems. Therefore, I deliberately and explicitly focus my teaching on: connecting mathematical ideas, and modeling reasoning about structure.Connections: I explicitly connect the current topic to prior mathematical content. For example, during integral calculus courses when discussing integration through trigonometric substitution, textbooks often present a table showing three categories of algebraic expressions along with their corresponding trigonometric substitution and reference triangle. Rather than show these to my students and encourage them to memorize these particular examples, I instead prefer to show how we can use the Pythagorean Theorem to build a right triangle based on a given algebraic expression and then, using knowledge of the trigonometric functions, how to find a useful trigonometric substitution. I find this to be a more useful way to approach these problems because this method allows my students to apply the same reasoning to all integration by trigonometric substitution problems, thus affording students greater opportunity to be successful when they are working on their own. Moreover, this approach can help students avoid common memorization pitfalls, such as using a trigonometric substitution and a reference triangle that do not match.Modeling Reasoning about Structure: To help my students develop problem solving and reasoning skills, I provide a model of appropriate mathematical reasoning by thinking aloud as I work through problems, discussing things such as which features of the problem stand out and indicate possible solution methods. In order to help my students try to imitate my cognitive processes, I organize my problem solving methods around a series of questions that I ask myself about the problem in order to determine how to progress. In the example of working on integration by trigonometric substitutions, I first discuss how each other method of integration (e.g., substitution, by-parts) would be inappropriate, and then examine which form of the Pythagorean Theorem resembles the algebraic expression in the problem. I then use this information to build a right triangle that describes that form, and finally use this triangle to choose an appropriate substitution. As my students work, rather than tell them the next steps, I instead first refer back to these organizing questions and try to get them to find answers themselves. I prefer this approach because I believe, and explicitly discuss with my students, that understanding the rationale underlying the steps in a process is better than merely memorizing the steps for two reasons: the rationale's structure reflects and reinforces the structure of the content, and using a process consistent across examples reduces the amount of information that students need to know in order to be successful on assessments.I have also worked with future teachers as an instructor of a first course in foundational mathematics content. In this context, it is of paramount importance that my students understand why the mathematics works like it does and how the various topics are interconnected so that they are able to provide instruction to their future elementary and middle school students in ways that emphasizes the connections among various models, between models and algorithms, and between prior and new content. For example, while discussing the base-ten number system, we explore how manipulatives (e.g., toothpicks, beads) can be iteratively bundled into groups of ten to demonstrate how place value is used and that this process can continue forever. Then, with non-integer real numbers we capitalize on this pattern to justify the idea that we can, similarly, divide a single unit into 10 smaller pieces (i.e. into 10 tenths) and that this process also continues indefinitely. This understanding of bundling and unbundling groups serves to emphasize the consistency of the base-ten structure across all place values, and also provides a basis for the "carrying" and "borrowing" actions present in the standard algorithms for addition and subtraction. By showing these future teachers connections among mathematics, and by modeling reasoning about structure, I hope to affect change in their views of mathematics as a discipline as well as provide an example of how we, as teachers, can help guide our students by relying on the structure of mathematics and through responding to student questions with carefully chosen questions of our own that encourage students to think for themselves.

I am a former elementary Dual Language Teacher with a passion for learning. I graduated from Texas State University in 2019 with my Bachelor's in Spanish, with minor in International Relations. I immediately continued on to graduate school and completed my Master's degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, specializing in Language Acquisition at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona in December 2020. My Master's thesis investigated a student's second language learning abilities depending on differing teaching platforms: face- to- face vs. live video lessons. In my spare time, I enjoy exploring natural areas, yoga, and rock climbing.

Hello! I'm a retired early childhood educator with three decades of experience! Throughout my career, my enthusiasm for fostering a love of learning has laid a strong educational foundation for hundreds of children. I have consistently dedicated myself to three key areas: maximizing student performance through joyful and innovative methods, inspiring families of young learners to create a print-rich home where learning is integrated into their daily lives, and encouraging daily reading to or with your child. I have a BA in Early Childhood Education from the University of Texas San Antonio & a Masters in Special Education from Texas State University.

Hi, I'm Keondre Parker. I am a NASA engineer by trade, an educator by heart. I develop math resources that focus on strong foundations and real understanding and have been a tutor for nearly a decade. My motto is simple: "The foundation must be stronger than the structure". You cannot expect to grow if you do not understand the basics. I teach by this motto to best prepare you for what is ahead. I am here to provide you with the knowledge to excel in your courses in the hope that the skills transfer to real life. Allow me to join you in your educational journey, and let's be successful together!

I am a native Japanese speaker, from Tokyo, Japan. I graduated from Komazawa University with a Bachelors of Arts in English Literature in 2015 and received my certification in Japanese Instruction from the Sendagaya Japanese Language Institute in 2017. I am currently in a Graduate Program at Texas State University in Adult Education. Teaching students about my native language and culture is my passion. I have had many students that have successfully passed Japanese proficiency exams, and some that have even moved to Japan. Whatever your goals in the Japanese language you have, I am here to customize your lessons to help you achieve them.

I strive to bring knowledge, drive, and humor to every student I tutor. I have a background in English Literature and Law, and am well-versed in essay writing, editing, and construction.I have experience speaking publicly and crafting concise speeches.I will approach each tutoring session professionally and promptly, building on desired knowledge areas and honing areas that need work with unique strategies and endless passion for learning and bettering ourselves. As I teach, I hope to impart not just subject matter but a desire for further learning, and to invigorate students through shared interests and basic human desires to succeed.

I believe that no one should struggle through the learning process and that even the most difficult subjects can be made fun with a bit of perspective! I hold a Master's in biology and have taught in a university setting for STEM related subjects, I've also taught English! I really enjoy teaching and trying to help anyone reach a bit more understanding!

My interest in tutoring arises from a love of learning and a background in education. I received my Bachelors degree in Theater from Southwestern University and am earning my Masters degree in Education from Texas State University. I am a certified teacher EC-6th Grade all subjects with an additional certification in ESL. I currently teach fourth grade ELA and Social Studies. I am eager to work with students who want to learn but need a little extra attention and help with certain subject areas. I am a patient and encouraging tutor and get results because I am willing to go the extra mile to find a style of teaching and way of breaking down information that fits what a student needs. My areas of expertise include teaching Elementary core content areas and the Spanish language. I also have a wide range of expertise in History (American and Texas History as well as World Cultures) and Theater including Theater History and coaching acting. I look forward to working with you!

I'm a Computer Science student who's been teaching all my life. From tennis camps for kids to an engineering physics class for college kids, I really enjoy helping someone discover for themselves what they are capable of! Please let me know if there's anything you'd like me to help you with.

I started out tutoring my peers while I attended college at Texas State University, where I graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. When I was not studying, my time was consumed by many activities including my job as a medical scribe in the emergency department of Seton Hays Hospital and my membership with my sorority, Alpha Delta Pi. I volunteered on weekends through the Ronald McDonald House Charities and San Marcos's local Senior Citizens Home.After college, I decided to continue my education and pursue a medical degree. I am currently enrolled in the Medical Sciences program at the University of North Texas Health Science Center's Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. While I await decisions from medical schools, my time consists of working out, running outside, eating mac & cheese, and now tutoring those who were once in my shoes.I want to provide those in need with the skills to become the best versions of themselves through the arms of education. Whatever the goal may be, your success will not be measured by how many times you fail, but by whether you decide to stop trying. If you never stop trying, then you will succeed.

I am passionate about helping students because I've been a student my whole life! Even though I'm a professor now, I love to learn. And now that I have experience, I love to help others along the learning journey. I have degrees in English and education from Rice University, UT Austin, Texas State, and Texas A&M. I also studied abroad in England at the University of East Anglia and have traveled to many countries. I tutor English and Spanish (my family is from Mexico City). My favorite thing to tutor is writing, and I have taught writing from the Kindergarten-graduate school (Ph.D.) level (what I currently do). I am here to share tools and tips to help you succeed in your learning journey.

My current career path as a future educator can all be traced back to a moment that, at the time, I had not given much thought to. As a sophomore I was stopped in the hallway by a teacher I had never met before; he went on and on about how a few of my teachers had come to him and told him that I needed to be a part of his program. I immediately began to panic. Was I not doing well in my classes? He then explained that he ran a peer tutoring program through the school that matches students selected by the staff with other students who needed a little extra help. I had often answered my peers' questions in class as we worked and thought nothing of it, but apparently all my teachers had noticed. These teachers all saw something that I could not yet see for myself. Five years later and I am about to graduate from Texas State University as a Special Education teacher. I have had several years of experience working with high school students in areas of algebra, geometry, English, Reading and Science, as well as working with special populations. I believe every student, no matter what their challenge, deserves the right to the best educational experience possible.

I have earned my Bachelor's in Mathematics at the University of North Texas, and a PhD in Mathematics Education at Texas State University. Since graduation, I have been working as a Professor of Instruction at universities. I have taught many years at the university level over all levels of mathematics. Predominantly, this has been with algebra, pre-calculus, and calculus students. My philosophy for teaching is to prepare my students with a foundation in the content of the course as well as how to apply that knowledge in new contexts. I find it key to help students answer the questions they have while also preparing them to answer any other possible questions that could come from a context.

Hey there!My name is Bleu and I am here to tutor you.My philosophy on education is that it should be a fun adventure into new thoughts and ideas!

I love working with students, particularly tutoring because it allows me to watch them blossom over time. I am a personable, easy-going tutor who wants students to feel comfortable working with me. I'm starting a PhD program in the fall and looking for a few tutoring opportunities to supplement my fellowship.

I am honored to be a part of the Varsity Tutors family! My amazing journey as a lead learner in education began 27 years ago and has encompassed teaching each of the grades kindergarten through the sixth grade both in person and virtually, as well as leading an elementary school as a campus principal. I eagerly look forward to supporting our Varsity Tutors students and their families.When I am not supporting students, I am homeschooling my 14-year-old son, watching him play golf, or spending time with family and friends. I have a weakness for cherry Dr. Pepper and my mom's famous chicken enchiladas, and I am happiest when I am teaching.

A life-long mathematics educator and learner who thrives in an atmosphere of academic collaboration, investigation, discovery and enlightenment.

I currently am attending the University of Houston in the pursuit of a PhD in Economics. After finishing three years in the program I currently have two more left and really look forward to reaching my goal.As far as tutoring is concerned, I have taught for a number of years and through the process have come to recognize a few key principles to learning.I understand that a lot of students have various difficulties in school, but most of them boil down to a small number of causes which are completely fixable. The two which I try to isolate in my tutoring sessions are the fact that Math and Economics seem COMPLICATED and BORING to students.Math is complex and overwhelms a number of students. Many students get a problem incorrect before they even begin to work towards the answer simply because they freak out after reading it. I remember back before I learned one little precept by which I now live my life, I used to stare at some Math problems and think "How will I ever solve this, it is impossible!" What I didn't realize then, but do now is that Math is EASY if you split it into steps. Just like pro golfers will say "I just take it one hole at a time", Math experts take each problem one step at a time. And, after you put the steps together you will be surprised with how simple the most complex problems can be.Math is also boring, to most. Yet, it can be surprisingly entertaining to some and the difference is driven by one's ability. Getting problems incorrect is certainly no fun, but when you reach the level of solving 90-100% of the problems correctly, it begins to grow into a passion. And, you start making the connections to how Math is actually important in your every day life. I like to emphasize to my students how it feels to work out problems completely correctly and the sense of accomplishment that one gets from a perfect answer.I realize this sounds extremely Utopian , but it is the true story of how I went from an average Math student in high school to scoring perfectly on the Quantitative portion of the GRE. And, my goal as a tutor is to impart some of what I have learned over many years of schooling onto my students in the hope that they will enjoy school as much as I have.Tutoring/Teaching Experience:Tutor- Texas State Student Learning Assistance Center (2008-09)Tutored upwards of 30 students a day in a variety of college coursesTutor- University of Houston Athletics (2010-11)Tutored athletes in 1-on-1 sessions in Math and Economics coursesInstructor- Principles of Macroeconomics at the University of Houston (2011-2012)I currently teach Economics courses at the University of Houston. My classes range from 50-80 students. I have just finished my third term.

What better person to tutor you than a professional nerd? I love all geeky academic things from a perfectly edited essay to a finely tuned test prep schedule. I spent my grade school and early college years struggling with undiagnosed ADHD. When I finally started to learn coping mechanisms and study strategies that worked with my brain, my grades went up and I was much happier. I've always had a love of learning and now I want to help you find the best studying strategies to reach your academic goals.

I am a graduate of SoTexas State University. I have been a teacher for 27 years. I tutor in math reading and language arts. I am also a certified ESL teacher. I love to tutor students because I love to see their progress

I am a registered nurse in Central Texas with a unique academic and professional background: I earned my Bachelor's and Master's in history in 1999 and 2001, respectively. From 2002 to 2014, I taught introductory American History courses at the local community college.I earned my Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2014 and my Master of Science in Nursing Education in 2019. Between 2014 and 2020, I worked in a variety of roles - as a staff nurse in the Cardiovascular ICU and Progressive Care Unit, and later as a nursing supervisor, manager, and clinical educator. All the while, the classroom was calling me back to academia. I missed that connection with my students, so I became a nurse educator in 2019. It felt amazing to help aspiring and new nurses meet their potential. Helping students connect with a subject that many of them struggled with was an absolute joy.As the pandemic raged on, I felt a pull back toward the bedside, so I became a staff nurse again in October 2021. I started tutoring as a way to continue helping students while also caring for patients.I take a holistic approach to tutoring NCLEX. I spend time getting to know my students: what they struggle with, how they've prepared in the past, where they'd like to focus their energy and time, and how they handle test anxiety. I then develop a tutoring plan to meet each person's individual needs. I teach content review, testing strategies, and in-the-moment stress-reduction techniques to help my students feel prepared as they go into the testing center.

I am an experienced teacher, lover of languages, and taco enthusiast. Born and raised in Texas, I recognized the value of bilingualism from a young age, as well as my interest in teaching. Teaching high school Spanish to a mix of second language learners, heritage learners, and native speakers has allowed me to simultaneously experience two of the most beautiful moments in the world. The first is the "light bulb" moment, when a student grasps a difficult concept, and the second is what I like to call the "Hablas espaol?" moment, when an instant connection is formed with someone who immediately feels comfortable in the knowledge that you understand their mother tongue. I have been working in the field of education as either a tutor or a teacher since 2013. I have tutored and/or taught Spanish, English as a Second Language, and English writing skills. I graduated from Texas State University in 2016 with bachelor's degrees in Spanish and English, and from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2019 with my master's degree in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL). During the 2016-17 school year, I had the opportunity to teach English in Spain on a Fulbright grant, which exponentially expanded my view of what it means to be a Spanish speaker in terms of linguistic variety and taught me the value of stepping outside of my comfort zone to learn more about other cultures. I also take advantage of every available opportunity to increase my knowledge of linguistics, language teaching and pedagogy, and Spanish as a heritage language. To this end, I served as the vice president of the Texas Language Education Research conference (TEXLER) in 2019, and participated in the 2020 NHLRC heritage language teacher workshop.

I tutor the LSAT- The law school admissions test, and I tutor English. I scored a 170 on the LSAT, which is in the top two percent of the test.I also like to tutor English and creative writing. English is my passion, and I am happy to help with any written papers on a wide variety of topics.

I am currently a graduate student at Texas State University, pursuing a specialist degree in School Psychology. A major deciding factor in my career choice was the field's emphasis on helping all students do their best at school and at home, which directly applies to my approach to tutoring. I love to learn and I love helping others feel successful in their classes. I have been informally tutoring peers and my younger siblings from a young age, and continue to do so today.In high school, I was recognized as a National Merit Finalist by the College Board for my PSAT and SAT scores. I took nine different AP exams (World History, US History, European History, Physics B, English Lit, English Comp, Biology, Psychology, and Statistics) and thus became very familiar with how those tests work, as well as what goes in to preparing for them, emotionally as well as academically. I graduated in June 2012 as the third in my class of over 600 students and continued my education at Texas A&M University as a psychology major with minors in neuroscience and Spanish. I graduated from Texas A&M with a Summa Cum Laude distinction in May 2015 and went straight into my graduate coursework.Given my own testing experiences and the value I place on higher education, I love to help others feel as confident as they can when they walk into that testing room, whether for AP, ACT, SAT, or GRE exams. The process of applying to colleges and graduate programs can be very stressful at times, so if I can help you feel prepared to do your best, I would love to do so! That being said, I enjoy working with all ages and as I am a Liberal Arts person at heart, my favorite academic subjects are psychology, history, and any English class that gives me an excuse to reread a Jane Austen novel. Though I do not promise to know all the answers, I can guarantee that I will do my best to help students know where and how to find them. I believe that tutoring is most effective when a student comes to acknowledge and utilize the strategies that are best suited for their learning style, which they can then take with them into other subjects and in their future academic endeavors.Outside of the academic arena, I love to read, watch movies, spend too much money on craft supplies at Michael's, and volunteer with kids.

Experienced and adaptable tutor bringing 6+ years experience working with students in multiple capacities, including math, reading, study/organization skills, memorization/processing speed, yoga, and more. I consider myself a lifelong learner and I'm passionate about equipping the next generation with the tools they need, not only to pass the test, but to truly comprehend and appreciate what they're learning. Ready and eager to bring subject knowledge, organization, and effective teaching methodologies to any classroom setting.

Manuela, my mother, earned a college scholarship in 1937. She was not allowed to go to college. In those days young Hispanic ladies were not allowed to go away to college. She stressed that after God and family, education was very important. Despite the fact that we were raised poor, my mother always found a way to pay for all 8 children to have 8 years of private school,Catholic schools. School was very important. By the time I was 5 I knew I was going to be a teacher. When I went to kindergarten I came home and taught my younger sister everything I learned. I became an aunt when I was 7 and always played school with my nephews and nieces. I have 24 nephews and nieces. Also I now have 50 grandnephews and grandnieces, plenty of students. When I was a 6th grader I began tutoring 2nd and 3rd graders at the Boy's Club in Corpus Christi at the age of 10 years old. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing their attitudes change toward Math. When I was in the 8th grade, the 7th grade teacher was our Math teacher. Her 7th graders were terrible and she just wanted to relax so I taught our Math class for most of the time at the age of 12 and 13. When I was in the 12th grade my teacher wouldn't let me take Advanced Math because she said I already knew everything in it. Later that year she had an operation on her throat and had to use a microphone just to be heard. She asked me to teach her class for her in 1972 at the age of 17. When I was a college freshman second semester, my first semester Math teacher asked me to grade papers and eventually I became her aide and tutored college algebra students on a regular basis. It was always so enjoyable to see students who were so sure they were going to fail end up with A's and B's. When I worked on my Masters I had the privilege of teaching 3 classes every semester. It was great. The only sad thing was so many students would tell me that they wished they had taken in their freshman year and learned that they could do Math well. They quite often had changed their majors because of their fear of Math. I decided I needed to teach in high school instead of the university level so that I could catch them before they let their fear of Math keep them from doing what they really wanted to do. I was blessed in being able to do what I thoroughly enjoyed and felt that everyone should have that opportunity. As I started teaching high school, I noticed that a lot of students needed more help than was possible during the regular school day. I began night tutorials. One night tutorials for the Calculus students and another for the rest. One year I provided night tutorials for all the Geometry students in the school. That is when I saw the need for my book, "You Can Do Proofs." So many teachers don't know how to teach how to do proofs. My book takes care of that problem. In September 1997, after suffering constant sever pain for 5 years, I was convinced by the Medical Board of the Teacher Retirement System that I was no longer able to teach full time. I loved teaching mathematics and so I had to start tutoring Mathematics when my body lets me. That is why I tutor at my home office. I can rest or take extra medication before the students arrive. I cannot tutor more than 2 hours back to back. I have to stand up, stretch, exercise, or even take a nap before I can continue. Sometimes the student's needs do push me into doing more than I should and then I have to take longer to recover. I usually do manage to keep a good balance. I also have to tutor because God told us to share our talents. Teaching, tutoring and Mathematics is my talent.

I'm a child care director with an extensive background in teaching and tutoring. I'm here to help you with your writing and reading, from elementary all the way to college-level work. I'm also fluent in Spanish and can tutor both beginners and advanced level students. I look forward to working with you!

I am a proud educator and lifelong learner! I am driven to help others empower themselves with the knowledge to live and grow in today's modern world. I am a graduate of Texas State University with a BS in Interdisciplinary Studies and Texas A&M University with a M. Education-Counseling. I specialize in working with students ages 3-21. I have extensive experience and knowledge in advising students through their educational career, supporting academic excellence, college and career development, language development (ESL), reading, writing, and math tutoring. I have experience working with diverse populations in person and online/virtual settings. I have worked with special populations that include: Special Education, Section 504, Gifted and Talented, English Language Learners, Military families, Homeless students, and At-Risk students. I understand the importance of developing a positive relationships with students, parents, and staff to provide a comprehensive service.

I've travelled the world mentoring students in Japan, forging houses in India, founding soccer programs in Costa Rica, and graduating teen moms in Texas. Education has captured my attention the world over. I'm eager to keep my hand in the field with Varsity Tutors. My other passions find me out on the pitch, drenched at Barton Springs, or languid in a Netflix puppy pile.