My priority as a writing coach is to support students in developing three things : 1. a feeling of ease and confidence while composing; 2. the capacity to identify readerly expectations for every genre, and create revision practices to transform prose accordingly; 3. the skill to meta-critically analyze how each writer works in order to create a tool-kit for project management, and an individualized optimal organizational design of daily space, time, and energy.
writing coaching in person
90 minute session $150 per session
Sessions start with reviewing the school day to create and revise an energy map; review assignment and break them own into minute tasks to practice project management; start work on a piece of a writing assignment to experiment with task initiation techniques. Then, we analyze work written in class to identify revision strategies and discuss creative processes to practice.
writing coaching zoom
60 minute session $85 per session
Sessions consist of drafting practice, analysis of writing done in class to develop an editorial eye, and revision techniques. I encourage students to start the session fifteen minutes before I come online to either do a writing sprint or choose work done in class for us to work most efficiently during the session.
french tutoring zoom
30 minute session $50 per session
Session activities alternate between conversation to practice sustained engagement in French; then, based on that, the student and I will identify and practice the grammar points that will have the most important impact in raising the student's fluency.
spanish tutoring zoom
30 minute session $50 per session
Session activities alternate between conversation to practice sustained engagement in Spanish; then, based on that, the student and I will identify and practice the grammar points that will have the most important impact in raising the student's fluency.
Areas of expertise :
project management for students with adhd or neurodiverse traits
environmental design for students with adhd or neurodiverse traits
support in transitions from middle school to high school and sophomore spring to junior fall : these are the time periods where expectations for work product ramp up, and where the type of assignments and skills practiced shift
strategies and practice task initiation in the form of starting a new piece of writing and drafting raw material
psychology of writing as a practice to refine ideas
coaching for evaluating students’ writing within the different expectations of various academic and professional genres
toolkit development of individualized revision techniques
introductory language teaching to develop a solid vocabulary base and practice basic syntactical forms
intermediate language conversation with review of grammatical concepts to support inductive language learning
advanced language development of oral and written proficiency to practice sophisticated, idiomatic language usage