Sydney F.

Sydney is certified to teach Pre-Kindergarten through Sixth grade students and holds a Professional Georgia Certificate of Eligibility – with a Reading Endorsement. She grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and graduated with a classical diploma from Veritas School. After attending Covenant College, she received a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education. While in college, she completed student teaching during a study abroad in the Czech Republic, where she grew an affinity for children and learning different curriculum models. She began her teaching career teaching second grade at Lookout Mountain Elementary School in Tennessee, and is currently a Third Grade teacher at The Geneva School of Manhattan. Sydney loves the individualized attention to detail that tutoring brings, and enjoys watching students grow in both wisdom and virtue. In her spare time, Sydney enjoys sailing J-24 boats on the Hudson River, playing tennis with friends, cooking, and reading classic literature. In Richmond, Sydney tutored underserved children though the STEP (Strategies to Elevate People) program, and currently serves the homeless population at The Bowery Mission in the Lower East Side. Sydney has experience tutoring for three students who attend private schools in the Manhattan area.

Rachel M.

Candace T.

Candace is a Certified Teacher in NYS as a Middle Childhood Generalist in grades 5-9. She grew up in the Bronx, NY and continued her own Undergraduate and Graduate education in New York. She obtained her Undergraduate degree from CUNY City College where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Minor in English, and earned her Graduate degree from Relay Graduate School of Education where she earned her Master of Arts in Teaching with a concentration in Mathematics. Candace first began her love of education and working with students in afterschool and summer programs. There she was helping students in ELA and Math in both Elementary and Middle School aged students through homework help and a curriculum based instruction. From there Candace’s love for teaching grew and led her to pursue her higher education in teaching.

Candace is now entering her 10th year in education in an NYC Charter school where she has focused on teaching middle school Math and Science. She believes in meeting students where they are, creating a learning environment where she and students are able to build and foster positive relationships. Providing multiple modalities of access to learning and instruction. Giving space to students to ask questions, make mistakes, push their thinking, and build their confidence in learning.

Outside of teaching, Candace has a love of the performing arts with acting, stepping, film and theatre. She has pursued all of these areas through teaching theatre and stepping to students in afterschool and summer programs. Working on a couple of episodes of Sesame Street to perform with her step team. She has performed in Off Broadway productions, and worked behind the scenes of a webseries through script writing, casting and directing. She loves to travel, maintain close relationships with family and friends, being in water for the pool and beach, and on weekends going to the movies.

Rafael T.

Rafael has been teaching for more than 6 years. He has taught students across a range of ages and learning levels. With experience teaching, he helps learners develop confidence in communication, vocabulary, grammar, and cultural understanding. He has taught foreign students to learng English as a second language and has helped American students learn Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian. He has additional experience in the sciences notably in chemistry and biology. This additional strength helps allows him to explain complex scientific concepts clearly and in an engaging way. Combining patience, adaptability, and a student-centered approach. Rafael strives to make learning accessible, practical, and enjoyable.

Some of Rafael’s personal interests are reading, traveling, learning new languages and about cultures.

LILY L.

Lily is a certified educator who holds a Master of Science in Education from Niagara University, as well as a Bachelor of Recreation & Leisure Studies with a minor in French from Brock University. After beginning her professional journey in Corporate Administration, Lily transitioned to education as a second career, driven by a deep passion for working with children and fostering a lifelong love of learning. Certified to teach Junior Kindergarten through Grade 6, she specializes in supporting students across Math, Language, History, Geography, Social Sciences, and Art. Lily believes in creating a safe, supportive learning environment where students feel confident to take risks, challenge themselves, and reach their personal learning goals. Outside the classroom, Lily stays active with cycling and barre fitness, explores amateur photography, and gives back to the community as a volunteer foster parent with the Toronto Cat Rescue—though she admits her foster cats are far better at taking naps than helping with lesson plans.

FELIPE B.

Felipe is an enthusiastic and student-focused education professional who holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Justice and Catholic Studies and possesses classroom instruction experience. Throughout his university education, he excelled in History, English, Science, and Mathematics, earning a place on the Dean’s List every year and receiving various academic scholarships.

Felipe is passionate about helping students build confidence and achieve their academic goals through patient, encouraging, and personalized support. He has experience working with students one-on-one, teaching elementary and junior high students in classroom settings, and communicating effectively with students and families. He is also fluent in Spanish.

Having experienced academic challenges during his own primary and secondary education, Felipe understands firsthand the importance of effective academic support. This perspective motivates him to create engaging learning environments, adapt instruction to individual student needs, and help students develop both their academic abilities and confidence.

Felipe’s engaging, clear, and student-centered approach, combined with his academic achievements, teaching experience, and genuine desire to help others succeed, makes him a well-prepared and qualified tutor.

Academic Coaching, English Language Arts , History, Math, Primary Junior (1-6) – All Subjects, Science, Social Studies

CHRISTIANA K.

Christy has enjoyed teaching children, youth, & adults in a variety of contexts. Prior to entering Teacher’s College she gained experience teaching horsemanship & voltige at Circle Square Ranch and Bible lessons at her church. She gained experience in Early Childhood Education and cared for children at several After School Care programs while obtaining her Humanities undergraduate degree. Following graduation she worked with ESL students at St Mary’s University. This led to her pursuing work as an ESL teacher in Korea. After an incredible 3 years of learning about the Korean language & culture she returned to Canada to obtain her Teacher’s Certificate. Her first teaching assignment was to teach ESL and FSL. Subsequently in between raising three children, Christy has enjoyed teaching French at various private schools using the AIM methodology. Her favourite part of teaching is providing students with strategies to help them enjoy learning subjects that were previously laborious for them. She loves learning about her unique students and providing activities and exercises that are tailored to them. When she is not teaching, Christy enjoys being active outside: skiing, swimming, gardening, adventuring with her children and training her family’s puppy.

Peter W.

Peter is certified with the Ontario College of Teachers, and has undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Toronto. He has spent the last 27 years of a 34 year classroom career with the TDSB, focussing on English teaching. A long career, working with many students, has given him a wide range of tools to meet student needs. He has extensive experience editing and teaching the essay (including comparative analysis, research, citation, and thesis planning), extended writing (including style and paragraph structure), story and media analysis, presentation skills and a wide range of creative writing forms. He has spent many hours working invidually with students to help them prepare for examinations, refine their projects, review key concepts, hone their reading and writing skills and shape their academic and professional futures. In addition, he has advised many extra-curricular clubs at his various home schools. Although retired from the classroom, he looks forward to helping students become stronger writers and to learn more about stories and themselves.

Yasmin L.

Yasmin is an experienced educator, academic tutor, College Board speaker, and AP exam reader with a multidisciplinary background in psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, educational leadership, and physical therapy. She has taught Anatomy and Physiology, AP Psychology, AP Research, English Language Arts, social studies, Latin, Comprehensive Science and college-level writing.

Yasmin specializes in helping students strengthen their critical-thinking, reading, writing, research, and test-taking skills. Her teaching approach is structured, supportive, and individualized. She identifies each student’s specific challenges and explains complex concepts in clear, accessible ways. She is especially skilled at working with students who need greater confidence, organization, or an approach tailored to how they learn.

With extensive experience in classroom instruction, standardized-test preparation, and one-on-one tutoring, Yasmin helps students understand the material instead of relying solely on memorization. Her goal is to provide students with practical strategies that improve immediate academic performance while building long-term confidence and independence as learners.

Kimberly K.

Experienced and energetic teacher with 10 years of classroom teaching. Masters degree in cross cultural teaching, Barton and Waldorf trained. Expert with Adhd, dyslexia and Asd students. Together we can work with challenges to create life long and confident learners.