For over 35 years, I have been involved in many facets of education
private tutoring
teaching middle and high school
homeschool teaching
creating and developing educational materials with companies, including instructional videos and standardized test prep
My background includes:
Education
Summa Cum Laude Graduate of Harvard University with a BA in Biology (1987)
Phi Beta Kappa
Teaching experience
• Convent of the Sacred Heart High School
• The Hebrew Academy
• East Bay School of the Arts
• Arrowsmith Academy
Subjects
high school physics, chemistry, biology
algebra, algebra 2, geometry, trig, precalculus, and calculus
fifth, sixth, and seventh-grade math
writing (including college essays)
ACT & SAT Test Preparation (also SSAT, ISEE, HSPT, and TACHS)
ACT & SAT Test Preparation Experience
Thousands of hours of private tutoring with a wide variety of students
Teaching classes on ACT/SAT prep for Think Tank Learning, a Bay Area tutoring company
Designing an online course for both ACT and SAT prep with TestPrepLabs
Developing what I believe is the most effective and individualized approach to preparing for the ACT and SAT, drawing on research and decades of teaching and tutoring experience.
Creating and Developing Educational Materials
A diagram from my visual "text"-book for chemistry.
with StudentAcademy.com, one of the early educational websites, to craft clear explanations and visual aids to help high school students learn biology
with Brooks/Cole Publishing, to create online tutorials in math and biology
with Decision Development Corporation, to design colorful, interactive history lesson plans for elementary age kids
with TestPrepLabs to develop a comprehensive online SAT and ACT test prep course
on my own, to create the first half of a visually-oriented chemistry textbook