Elementary School Archives

Dan Moore

June 13, 2016

Dan Moore graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor’s degree in Television Writing and a Master’s degree in English Education. He has worked as either a private tutor, a special education paraprofessional or a permanent substitute in New York City public schools since he graduated in 2012.

Dan Moore has managed and run in-class college essay-writing workshops and tutored/taught a variety of subjects including all levels of English, History, Social Studies and some Sciences. He also specializes in SAT, ACT, ISEE, CTP and Stanford-Binet test preparation. In addition to these, Dan helps his mom (a music teacher for the last 30 years in New Jersey) run a weekly class teaching sketch comedy to elementary students during the winter.

Dan’s teaching style is highly personal and highly empathetic; he is adept at tailoring his lessons to the individual learning needs of his students. He has the subject-area expertise to really challenge the highest-level learners but also the patience and teaching experience to maximize sessions with students whose greatest strength lies in other subjects. Having worked in New York City public schools for several years, he has seen all kinds of learners and can use their strengths to work on their weaknesses.

During the pandemic, Dan attended a coding bootcamp and began working as a full-time computer programmer in 2022. He tutors in the evenings after slowly, patiently reducing the number of error messages he sees all day long and getting phone menus and call trees to work.

Outside of teaching and programming, Dan is a Sports Emmy-nominated writer for Bleacher Report’s animated series Game of Zones.

Jennifer Fields

May 16, 2016

Jennifer Mann Fields is an elementary school teacher and private tutor who has worked in the Montgomery County Public School System (Maryland) for her entire career (nearly 30 years). She has experience teaching multiple grade levels in a diverse, suburban school setting. Jennifer believes that the key to providing a strong educational environment for her students is to create lasting relationships between teacher, student, and family. After those connections are formed, Jennifer has been able to encourage her children to move past their wildest expectations.

Throughout her career, Jennifer has had extensive experiences with all different types of learners. She has been a General Education Teacher in a Special Education Inclusion classroom many different times. These classrooms require Jennifer to collaborate with Special Education Teachers quite often and work together to best meet the needs of a wide variety of learning styles and challenges. Most frequently Jennifer works with children who have specific learning disabilities (in the areas of reading, writing, or math), ADD/ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Individual accommodations are implemented in Jennifer’s classroom so that everyone has an equal chance to access all curriculum.

In addition, Jennifer has also worked with students who are in need of extra enrichment. She has taught the William & Mary Reading Program, Junior Great Books, Jacob’s Ladder, and Soar to Success. Along with many other reading programs, Jennifer is able to stretch her students to reach their highest potential. In the area of Mathematics, Jennifer has taught very advanced concepts (middle school math classes) to children as young as 3rd and 4th grade. She was the Math Olympiad Club Coordinator in addition to running the schoolwide Family Math Program that brought in families in the evenings to help learn how to love math at home!

Currently Jennifer is an English Facilitator in a Spanish Two-Way Immersion school. She shares a total of 46 students with a Spanish Facilitator and each of them teach two classes filled with 4th graders for half of a day. There is a great deal of collaboration and planning involved that makes this program run successfully. While Jennifer is not a complete fluent speaker of Spanish, she understands and can communicate using basic Spanish with students and parents. Teaching in this new program has allowed Jennifer to add this new challenge to her repertoire.

In all areas of her teaching, Jennifer feels that the most achievement occurs when you can meet students where they are and then go from there! She incorporates various learning styles into her instruction and makes sure that she is providing continual opportunities for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic types of learners.

In addition to being a teacher, Jennifer has served as her school’s Student Government (SGA) Sponsor as well as a member of the School Improvement Team. She currently is the grade level Team Leader. Jennifer is also a Teacher Mentor to Student Interns from both American University as well as Towson University.

In her free time, Jennifer enjoys spending time with her family and friends, singing, going to baseball games, as well as attending musical theater performances.

Zachary Brewer

April 15, 2016

Zachary Brewer is a private tutor specializing in elementary math, literacy, and technology. He is also a middle school math tutor and a writing tutor for all grade levels.

Currently, Zach is the Educational Technology Specialist at Corlears School where he teaches all of school’s pre-kindergarten to fifth grade classes, integrating technology into every subject. Zach is passionate about technology, particularly the opportunities it gives students to apply traditional subject matter in modern ways. For instance, his students have learned math concepts through programming video games, they have prepared video news reports about events around the school, they have created animations about science topics, and they have written, filmed, and edited monster movies.

Previously, Zach was a math enrichment teacher at P.S. 85 in the Bronx. There, he designed and taught a supplemental mathematics curriculum called “Math Art” to third through fifth graders. The visual, hands-on activities of Math Art reinforced and expanded upon math topics while increasing student involvement and sense of accomplishment. He has since turned the curriculum into a self-published book that has sold over 5,000 copies. A lover of writing, Zach has begun work on his second book about educational technology.

In his free time, Zach enjoys hiking and camping, photography, and playing 1960’s and 70’s pop songs on the piano.

Bill Army

October 10, 2015

Bill Army made his professional theatrical debut at the age of nineteen. After graduating from Middlebury College with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Theatre, Bill matriculated to the Tisch Graduate Acting Program at New York University obtaining a Master of Fine Arts in Acting. At Tisch, he had the opportunity to work with Tony-Award and Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Playwright and Screenwriter, Tony Kushner on the world premiere of his play, Henry Box Brown directed by Mark Wing Davey.

Bill has performed in several successful and critically-acclaimed plays musicals, and revues. On Broadway, he has originated roles in Relatively Speaking three one-act plays written by Ethan Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen, directed by John Turturro, Act One at Lincoln Center Theater written and directed by James Lapine. and The Band’s Visit (Winner of Ten Tony Awards including “Best New Musical,” The Grammy Award for “Best Musical Theater Album,” and the Daytime Emmy Award for “Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program”) written by Itamar Moses, David Yazbek, and directed by David Cromer. Off-Broadway, he has performed with The Public Theater, The Atlantic Theater Company, Red Bull Theater, and in the hit revue Old Jews Telling Jokes at the Westside Theater directed by Marc Bruni. Bill was a company member of the Off-off Broadway company the Potomac Theatre Project for eighteen years, performing most notably in Lunch by Steven Berkoff, Scenes from an Execution, No End of Blame, and The Europeans by Howard Barker and Vinegar Tom by Caryl Churchill. Regionally, Bill has worked with The Westport Country Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Olney Theater Center, and The National Players. His Film/TV credits include appearances in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Deadbeat,” and the web series “COHAB.”

In 2022, Bill founded the nonprofit site-specific theatre company, Sketchbook Theatre, Inc whose mission is to break conventional perceptions and expectations of what it means to experience live performance, while serving a wide range of communities. In 2023, he produced the inaugural season of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at a townhouse space on the Upper West Side called, The Lethe Lounge and at Tydeman Farm in Germantown, New York.

In addition to Acting and Producing, Bill has emceed the 2013 Drama Desk Awards, Broadway in Bryant Park, and the Manhattan Theatre Club Gala. He has written and adapted plays and musicals, the book of his original musical “The Family Business” was selected as a Semi-Finalist for the National Music Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.

Bill has taught Text and Musical Theatre at the LaGuardia High School for the performing Arts, where he has co-directed three shows. He has also taught acting and directed at Middlebury College. In addition to his classroom teaching work at LaGuardia, Bill also works with students as a private acting/audition coach.

Matthew Serra

August 29, 2015

Matthew Serra

Matthew Serra is a private tutor, former Spanish teacher, ethnomusicologist, audio engineer, and flamenco guitarist. Matthew currently resides in Sevilla, Spain, where he studies flamenco guitar at Artes Escénicas Rebollar, a premier flamenco academy. He holds a Master of Arts in Music from Durham University, from which he graduated with distinction, and a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of Pittsburgh. Matthew also holds Bachelor’s degrees in Music and Spanish (summa cum laude, Allegheny College), and Music Technology (City College, CUNY). Matthew has carried out research projects on the relationship between flamenco performers’ identity and personal style, flamenco’s cultural/musical/literary heritage, and the effects of specific reinforcement schema on target language use and motivation in the foreign language classroom.

Matthew loves the opportunity to work directly with students of all ages and levels. He is enthusiastic about using the tutoring relationship as a medium for helping students to become the versions of themselves they most want to be. Matthew is experienced in teaching Spanish, English, executive function coaching (organizational and study skills), test preparation, creative writing, and even guitar, but he is also passionate about teaching math, science, language arts, and elementary education. Matthew has also worked with students on the autism spectrum as a therapeutic staff support and volunteered in a children’s grief support group. Matthew believes that learning can be fun, teaching should be engaging, and every subject has significance. He is an incredibly creative and engaging teacher who loves to teach through both traditional and immersive methods.

In his free time, Matthew enjoys studying flamenco, composing music, listening to psychology podcasts, reading in Spanish and French, and spending time outdoors.

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