Fairfield County, Connecticut Middle & High School Math and Reading Tutors & Executive Functioning Coaches

We Specialize and Travel to Your Fairfield County Home and Offer Reading, Math Tutoring, and Executive Function Coaching

Holly is a warm, versatile, multi-certified educator. With 35 years of experience teaching English and literacy in various learning environments, Holly has helped hundreds of students to reach their potential. She holds a BA in English (Hunter College), an MS in English Education (Iona College), and a 6th-year Professional Diploma in Reading Consultancy and Educational Leadership (Southern Connecticut State University).

Holly is currently a reading and literacy specialist working with public middle school students. She creates individualized lessons catered to student needs, prepares students for testing, and implements whole group work for teacher modeling comprehension techniques. She works closely with small groups of students, building their literacy skills through guided reading activities.

Holly has taught ELL to adult, high school, and middle school students and has created a curriculum that helps transition students from the English Language Learners program and prepares them for ELA academic classes. She has also led an interdisciplinary summer academy for English Language Learners that encourages students to acquire English language skills while having fun and learning about science in the natural world.

Holly previously taught English, literacy, writing, and literature classes to public high school students prepped for the SAT, SBAC, and Regents tests and provided hands-on help with college essays.

During her time as a high school teacher, Holly worked for four years at an alternate high school setting that offered individualized instruction for students experiencing difficulties within the regular high school program for various reasons. She specializes in working with students with motivational issues and has experience with students with behavioral and language disorders, ADHD, and other learning differences.

Holly has tutored a broad spectrum of learners in writing, organizational skills, and reading strategies. Holly believes in creating life-long readers and learners. By building relationships with her students, she helps them believe in themselves and find their personal and academic strengths.

Sara has a Master’s in Literacy K-12 and School Counseling. She is certified in English 7-12, Special Education K-12, and Elementary Education B-6. She has over 18 years of experience as a classroom teacher, special educator, reading specialist, and literacy expert. She has worked with students in the elementary grades and has extensive experience working with middle school and high school students. Sara has taught middle school and high school English and has provided targeted reading intervention to at-risk students. She also teaches English as a new language to non-English speaking students. In addition, she has worked as a special education case manager and resource room teacher. Sara has been an adjunct professor for over 16 years in graduate and undergraduate education and has in-depth experience training pre-service and practicing educators and preparing career changers to become teachers. Sara is well-versed in providing in-person, hybrid, and online instruction to adolescent and adult learners. She is a team player. Sara believes all learners can be successful with the appropriate strategies and tools. She also values a flexible, student-centered approach tailored to meet individual needs. Sara prides herself on connecting with students and making learning fun and accessible.

Sara emphasizes specific research-based strategies and has an arsenal of techniques she has developed on her own. She is skilled in providing targeted academic interventions to empower students, address areas of weakness, and improve achievement and her students’ confidence. Sara excels at teaching reading, writing, study skills, and executive functioning. She has vast experience working with struggling students and students with learning disabilities, emotional disorders, and attentional issues. Sara embraces differentiated instruction. She recognizes varied learning styles and differences, and her goal is to take the mystery out of learning and make the process more accessible for all learners. Her motto is “one size does not fit all.” Sara strives to create a unique plan, always with the learner in mind. Her tools include using mnemonics and acronyms to teach reading and writing strategies. She aims to break large tasks into smaller, easy-to-follow steps so students feel more empowered and successful. She uses templates and sentence stems to help students produce coherent writing and guide them to gather their thoughts while reading, and she tailors these tools to fit each student’s individual needs.

She uses a variety of organizational systems to help students break down large and small assignments and teaches them how to prioritize their work using a calendar. She also shows students a variety of study methods for note-taking, preparing for exams, and completing assignments, helping them select which ones work best for specific learning styles, subjects, and tasks. She is an avid fitness lover during her free time and enjoys spin cycling, weight training, cooking, going to the beach, golfing, and spending time with her family, especially playing with her two daughters.

Derycka has a master’s in Special Education from Grand Canyon University and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership with an emphasis on Special Education. She has New York State certifications in Childhood Education and Students with Disabilities in Grades 1-6. Derycka is also a literacy curriculum specialist, where she designs, organizes, and develops specialized instructional materials. Her administrative work enhances scholars’ ELA critical and inferential thinking skills. When working with adolescents,  she supports ELA and math skills. This includes facilitating reading comprehension by teaching students how to verbalize and visualize when reading hard-to-understand text. For writing, she offers organizational strategies to help students produce more cohesive essays. Derycka has taught and tutored for nine years in various instructional capacities, including a first-grade self-contained classroom, a kindergarten to second-grade integrated co-teaching classroom (ICT), and general education classrooms. Currently, Derycka is a 2nd grade ICT teacher at a New York City Charter School in the Bronx.

Derycka has taught students using many literacy and mathematics programs, including the Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Project, Bridges Mathematics, Ready Gen, Go Math, and the Engage NY ELA and Math modules. She has extensive literacy experience using Orton-Gillingham, Read Works, Wilson and Fundations for supplemental ELA intervention. Additionally, she has experience integrating instructional technology programs such as Lexia, Dream Box, Epic, and I-Ready into her small group and individualized classroom instruction. When working with students with attentional and learning differences, she models how to differentiate instruction based on the child’s learning needs. She has presented workshops for parents on reading comprehension and literacy strategies. Parents can implement these strategies at home. Derycka is committed and will continue to support students and their academic growth.

Betsy is a first-grade teacher at Purchase Elementary School in the Harrison Central School District. She previously taught at a private school on the Upper West Side for nine years. She received her Master’s Degree in General Education from Hunter College for first through sixth grades. Betsy has a passion for teaching math and reading to first through third-graders, including those who are advanced and those who need support to learn these fundamental skills.

Betsy had taught through an inquiry-based curriculum and the Common Core curriculum. She loves to see her students take ownership of their math and literacy learning. She uses a variety of strategies through personalized instruction to meet the needs of her students. She believes in a game-based, hands-on, multi-sensory approach to mastering mathematical concepts. Her areas of expertise are helping students learn a number sense, building strategies to solve math word problems, and understanding math concepts (connecting abstract to concrete). She teaches using the Singapore Math curriculum and is trained in EveryMath, Exemplars, Mathletics, and Matific.

Betsy is also passionate about reading and believes in the importance of building students’ confidence at the elementary level. She has experience in the Teachers College Reading Workshop and Fountas and Pinnel reading programs. She loves to find ways to spark reading in young children and scaffold and develop reading strategies to support them in acquiring underlying literacy skills.

Betsy is a first-grade teacher at Purchase Elementary School in the Harrison Central School District. She previously taught at a private school on the Upper West Side for nine years. She received her Master’s Degree in General Education from Hunter College for first through sixth grades. Betsy has a passion for teaching math and reading to first through third-graders, including those who are advanced and those who need support to learn these fundamental skills.

Betsy had taught through an inquiry-based curriculum and the Common Core curriculum. She loves to see her students take ownership of their math and literacy learning. She uses a variety of strategies through personalized instruction to meet the needs of her students. She believes in a game-based, hands-on, multi-sensory approach to mastering mathematical concepts. Her areas of expertise are helping students learn a number sense, building strategies to solve math word problems, and understanding math concepts (connecting abstract to concrete). She teaches using the Singapore Math curriculum and is trained in EveryMath, Exemplars, Mathletics, and Matific.

Betsy is also passionate about reading and believes in the importance of building students’ confidence at the elementary level. She has experience in the Teachers College Reading Workshop and Fountas and Pinnel reading programs. She loves to find ways to spark reading in young children and scaffold and develop reading strategies to support them in acquiring underlying literacy skills.

Betsy is a first-grade teacher at Purchase Elementary School in the Harrison Central School District. She previously taught at a private school on the Upper West Side for nine years. She received her Master’s Degree in General Education from Hunter College for first through sixth grades. Betsy has a passion for teaching math and reading to first through third-graders, including those who are advanced and those who need support to learn these fundamental skills.

Betsy had taught through an inquiry-based curriculum and the Common Core curriculum. She loves to see her students take ownership of their math and literacy learning. She uses a variety of strategies through personalized instruction to meet the needs of her students. She believes in a game-based, hands-on, multi-sensory approach to mastering mathematical concepts. Her areas of expertise are helping students learn a number sense, building strategies to solve math word problems, and understanding math concepts (connecting abstract to concrete). She teaches using the Singapore Math curriculum and is trained in EveryMath, Exemplars, Mathletics, and Matific.

Betsy is also passionate about reading and believes in the importance of building students’ confidence at the elementary level. She has experience in the Teachers College Reading Workshop and Fountas and Pinnel reading programs. She loves to find ways to spark reading in young children and scaffold and develop reading strategies to support them in acquiring underlying literacy skills.