Jessica M.
Jessica is passionate about her faith and enjoys sports, Snoopy and Woodstock, stuffed animals, and trains. She values spending time with her family and being in nature.
She currently works in an after-school program at a private Catholic school and has three years of full-time teaching experience as a fourth-grade Multiple Subject teacher. Jessica brings approximately 13 years of experience working with children and families in a variety of roles, including AVID tutor, teacher’s assistant, substitute teacher, and classroom teacher. In addition, she has been privately tutoring for 15 years.
Jessica is now pursuing a career as a Child and Adolescent Counselor, driven by her strong passion for supporting children’s overall well-being. She is dedicated to using her teaching background and strong interpersonal skills to positively impact children’s social and emotional health and to support them in any way she can.
Amanda D.
Amanda is a dedicated and compassionate tutor with a strong passion for helping students develop confidence and success in reading. She specializes in working with beginning and struggling readers, believing that strong early literacy skills are the foundation for lifelong learning.
A United States Marine Corps veteran, Amanda brings structure, adaptability, and perseverance to her teaching. She holds undergraduate degrees in History and Political Science and is currently working toward her teaching credential and Master of Education (M.Ed.). Her academic background allows her to support students with strong critical-thinking skills while maintaining clear, developmentally appropriate instruction.
Amanda creates a supportive and encouraging learning environment where students feel safe to take risks and grow. She focuses on key literacy skills including phonemic awareness, phonics, decoding, fluency, and comprehension. Amanda enjoys innovation and actively applies creative, research-based strategies to make learning engaging and effective. She is especially passionate about helping students who feel discouraged by reading rediscover confidence and believe in their ability to succeed.
Bryanna R.
Bryanna is an educator with a strong background in elementary and special education. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and Special Education from Salve Regina University. After graduating, she worked as a K–3 special education teacher, where she supported young learners in developing foundational academic and learning skills.
Bryanna is currently pursuing her graduate degree in Speech-Language Pathology at Emerson College, where she continues to specialize in working with elementary-aged students. Her combined training in education and speech-language development allows her to support students in areas such as reading, writing, language, and overall communication. She is passionate about helping children build confidence in their academic abilities while developing strong literacy skills.
Bryanna believes that building meaningful connections with students is essential for learning and progress. She strives to create a supportive, engaging environment where children feel comfortable asking questions, taking risks, and celebrating their successes.
Outside of teaching and tutoring, Bryanna enjoys spending time near the beach and staying active. Her newest obsession is OrangeTheory, where she enjoys challenging workouts and pretending she loves the treadmill.
Ann R.
Ann is a certified elementary and middle school teacher with more than 10 years of experience teaching in both the United States and Canada. While she has taught across subject areas, she specializes in developing reading and writing skills and integrating literacy across subjects. Ann holds a master’s degree in Learning and Technology from Western Governors University and a bachelor’s degree in English and Elementary Education from Western Washington University.
Sandra P.
Sandra has her Masters in Education, Single Subject History Teaching, Technology, AI, Orton Gillingham Trained. She has a passion for helping students create & activate learning plans that support positive outcomes.
Sebastian N.
Sebastian graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelors of Arts in Liberal Studies with an emphasis in Elementary Education and he completed the teaching credential program at San Diego State University earning himself a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential.
He has experience in teaching 2nd and 4th grade classrooms along with helping students with homework outside of the classroom. Sebastian is dedicated to helping students further their education while also deepening his own knowledge of how to help students be successful in the classroom. He believes that students can learn to care about their education and find it enjoyable to learn.
In his free time, Sebastian enjoys reading either novels or comics, exploring new coffee shops in the city, and playing games.
Martine H.
She is a native French speaker and speaks Spanish too. She has 20 years of experience tutoring all levels of French and beginning Spanish. She has relatives in both France and Switzerland and friends all over Europe. She spent 2 years in Madrid, Spain, living with a Spanish family there during her university years. She has a Bachelor’s Degree from San Francisco State University and she has an Emergency Teaching Credential from the state of California.
Her teaching approach emphasizes real world communication, cultural understanding, and personalized instruction tailored to each student’s goals, whether for academic achievement, travel, professional advancement or personal enrichment.
She creates her own lessons tailored for the students’ needs. She believes language learning should be fun, supportive, and empowering, and she strives to create an environment where each student feels comfortable taking risks and growing their abilities every day. She hopes you will join her because together they can make a difference.
Geetha S.
Geetha has a double MS in Microbiology and has been teaching for the last two decades as an adjunct faculty, private tutoring and at learning centers. She has been teaching as an adjunct faculty in Biology, Microbiology, Applied Biotechnology at local colleges, where she taught both lectures and hands-on lab instruction. She has also been tutoring privately and at learning centers in multiple subjects like English (English reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, spelling), Math, Science (Biology, AP Biology, Chemistry), test preps like TEAS test for nursing, ASVAB, ASTB, ACT etc.
Geetha is a dedicated, hardworking, patient teacher and passionate about teaching. She has taught many students of diverse social and cultural backgrounds and she realizes that she can fill the gaps that the student has in what they learn at school and helps connect the dots. Her helping hand has been complementary to what the student learns at school. The individual attention, guidance and focus that she provides the student helps them to feel encouraged, confident and do better. She has been able to help many students in their learning by enhancing their understanding of concepts by simplifying them, drawing diagrams, tables, figures, many practice problems for them to understand better. She gives real life examples from her research experience and enabling students to learn through practical, engaging and impactful training.
In her free time, Geetha enjoys music, gardening, yoga and hiking.
Violet O.
Violet is a special education teacher with over 10 years of experience supporting students with diverse learning needs. She is also a Structured Literacy tutor trained in the Orton-Gillingham approach. Throughout her career, she has worked with students with autism, ADHD, and dyslexia, helping them build confidence and succeed academically.
Violet believes that children learn best through exploration and hands-on experiences. Her lessons are interactive, multi-sensory, and carefully designed to keep students engaged by using movement, tactile materials, and meaningful practice to strengthen learning.
She earned her B.A. in Liberal Studies from Azusa Pacific University and her M.A. in Teaching from Point Loma Nazarene University. Violet is deeply committed to continued professional growth and regularly takes literacy courses to improve her practice and better serve her students. She is always researching new strategies, connecting with other educators, and staying current through professional communities and podcasts.
In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family at the San Diego Zoo or exploring new coffee shops.
Ms. H. Jang
Ms. Jang taught Math and Mandarin for 28 years at Hilltop High School, Bonita Vista Middle School, Eastlake Middle School and Options Secondary School in Chula Vista, California. She also has taught Financial Accounting and Mandarin at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California.
Ms. Jang has a BA in Western Languages and Literature from National Cheng-chi University, Taipei, Taiwan, MS in Accountancy from San Diego State and has passed the CPA license examinations, and a teaching credential from San Diego State.
She is best known for her passion to teach math and her dedication to her students. She firmly believes that each one of us is capable of learning anything and needs to be seen as an individual learner who has his/her own strengths and needs. She emphasizes the individual pacing based on assessments and building trusting relationships with students and parents to facilitate and further the desired learning goals and outcomes.
Ms. Jang has been married for 35 years, has an adult daughter and son. In her spare time, she likes to decorate her yards with garden flowers and plants and rescue struggling plants. Additionally, she likes to cook homemade meals, travel, learn a different language (Japanese currently,) listen to watch true crime stories in podcasts, audibles or on TV. Her all time favorite hobby would be the thrills of bargain shoppings. She also likes to give a her helping hand as needed when she can.