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What kind of students have you helped?

How can you help us to enrich learning in our children?

What are your credentials?

What kind of students have you helped?

• I work with a wide spectrum of students including the gifted and talented as well as struggling students, by tapping into what interests them.
• I work with students who are trying to figure out their plans for the future.
• I work with college bound students and vocation bound students.
• I work with those searching for colleges.
• I work with homeschoolers.
• I work with adult learners.
• I work with distance learners.
• I work with students in the local Long Island, New York and tri-state area.
• I work with students wherever they are located using distance learning technology.

How can you help us to enrich learning in our children?

• I will help to identify your child's strengths and interests. (Interest based and strength based learning)
• I will work with your child to create and fulfill an individualized plan of learning tailored to his or her interests, passions and needs.
• I will identify and highlight the ways in which your child learns best. Once we tap into this, success is more likely to follow.
• I will help to empower the gifts and talents your child already possesses.
• I will help your child develop independent projects related to his or her interests.
• I will help your child work on authentic, challenging and hands-on projects.
• Every child takes a different path to learning. I will help facilitate your child's learning.
• I will coach your child to help him or her develop as a learner for life.
• I will advocate for students to help them gain opportunities at school or through internships.
• I will coach your child to prepare for college and the world of work.
• I will coach your child through the college application process.Please see www.CollegeSearchExpert.com for this particular service.

What are your credentials?

• I have a doctorate in education.
• I have achieved the honor of obtaining National Board Certification, which requires satisfying the highest teaching standards in the profession.
• I have been honored with the Mathematics Elementary Teacher of the Year Award- Nassau County (NCTM).
• I have been chosen as the Teacher of the Year in the Superintendent's Honor Roll.
• I have been featured in numerous articles in various newspapers, (such as the metropolitan newspaper, Newsday), professional journals and television broadcasts regarding my work in areas of Reading, Writing, Mathematics and Social Studies.
• I have worked successfully with children to promote their love for learning.
• I have mentored teachers for their ongoing professional development.
• I have conducted parent and faculty workshops which served as a model for further parent and faculty education workshops.
• I have been instrumental in the start-up of teacher study groups which garnered tremendous faculty support.
• I have taught college students as an adjunct professor in the education department of a university.
• I have been successfully involved as a cooperating teacher, assisting with college students who are aspiring to become teachers.
• I have studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in the Change Leadership Group.
• I constantly visit and observe many schools and instructional settings, at all levels, both traditional and non-traditional, to finetune the learning strategies I use.
• I am a certified public accountant. I worked for one of the world's largest accounting firms and was very successful as a senior tax manager. This gives me the firsthand ability to understand the connection between education and business and the need for education to be meaningful for learners.
• I am a consultant with one of the world's largest professional service firms (100,000+ employees) assisting with the professional learning of their executives.

Please read the comments from parents of students with whom I have worked on the Testimonials page.

See articles highlighting the work I have done with my students on the News page.