category: High School

Dan Muro

September 7, 2020

Dan Muro is a private tutor who specializes in social studies, language arts, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Dan grew up in New Jersey, where he attended The Pingry School from kindergarten through 12th grade. In High School, he was an honor roll student and frequent discussion leader in class, particularly in his favorite subjects: biology, English, Spanish, and political science. Outside of the classroom, Dan was a competitive swimmer and a founding member of the Coffeehouse Society, which organized open-mic nights for the school’s student artists. He also worked as a camp counselor at the Montclair Yard School of Art’s summer camp.

After graduating from Pingry, Dan Muro attended Wesleyan University, where he earned his B.A. in anthropology. A native speaker of Portuguese, Dan had the opportunity to share his love of Brazilian culture and language as a course assistant for beginner and intermediate Portuguese, facilitating group tutoring sessions and providing individually tailored support to students. He also worked as a woodshop monitor, teaching student artists how to properly and safely operate heavy machinery and tools. His sophomore year, Dan designed his own study abroad program in São Paulo, Brazil, where he conducted ethnographic and archival research with an architecture office supporting community-led housing initiatives and design processes.

Dan Muro currently works as a writer and consultant for cultural institutions, such as The Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University, Philadelphia Contemporary, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum. As one of the founding team members of DVDL Design Decisions, a boutique consultancy, Dan assisted in the design of new education, curatorial, and space design strategies for world-class museums.

Dan draws on his patience, listening skills, and love of learning, as well as his real-world problem-solving experience, to meet each student where they are. He offers support tailored to each student’s needs on test-taking strategies, reading comprehension and analysis, integrating new concepts into their intellectual toolkit, and problem-solving tactics across subjects.

When he is not teaching or tutoring, Dan can be found reading poetry and old urban planning documents, writing songs with friends, or enjoying the outdoors.

Lana Bunning

August 31, 2020

Lana Bunning is a lifelong learner and has a passion for sharing her love of education with her students. After earning a B.S. in Biology and an M.S. in Education from the University at Albany, she began her career with the New York City Department of Education. She has been a public school teacher for over eight years where she has taught math, science, and many other enrichment courses. She proudly holds the title of Model Teacher because of her skill and expertise of best instructional practices and student achievement growth. Lana has also worked as a private tutor for several years with students from kindergarten through high school. Her experiences have ranged from supporting students with academic coaching, test preparation, and executive functioning.

Lana Bunning is thoughtful when designing curriculum and supports for students, ensuring that the instruction is engaging, rigorous, and accessible for all learners. She is able to plan and execute her lessons in this way due to her ability to build a strong rapport with her students. Lana takes the time to get to know each of her students’ strengths and areas of growth, building trust and taking the time to get to know their hobbies and interests outside of the classroom. For these reasons, Lana is a lead teacher on her school’s Instructional Leadership and Equity Teams as well as District 13’s Math Leadership Group.

Lana’s experience educating students has not stopped at the classroom. She has privately tutored students of all ages attending NYC private and public schools, including The Dalton School, Horace Mann, Stuyvesant High School, and The Summit School. She skillfully differentiates instruction for all of her learners, including students with more complex neurocognitive profiles. Her tutoring work integrates monitoring and enhancing students’ executive functioning capacities and skills. She loves working one-on-one and in small groups with students because that is where she can have the most impact.

Lana Bunning is always working towards furthering her own learning in order to engage students at the highest levels. She participated in Honeywell Educators at Space Academy in 2016 where she participated in traditional Space Camp activities such as engineering design challenges, mock flight and space missions, rocket construction and launches with teachers from around the world. Sometimes you can still find her in her blue flight suit! She partnered with University of Washington Burke Museum paleontologists in 2017 to conduct field research on an active site, digging up 66 million year old fossils with teachers and researchers. In 2018, she explored Yellowstone National Park while engaging in STEAM projects to implement into the classroom with her students. She is always learning new ways to reach her students and spark their natural curiosity.

In her free time, Lana loves riding her Peloton and biking outside, snowboarding in the winter months, enjoying the beach waves in the summer, collecting and listening to vinyl records, and sharing meals with friends and family.

Jessica McLaren

July 9, 2020

Jessica McLaren is passionate about advocating, educating, and helping individuals with learning disabilities and ADHD. Jessica has a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Marist College and a Master’s in Social Work from Columbia University in New York City. Jessica works one-on-one as a program aide with students with autism and other visible and invisible disabilities at a private school in Maryland. As a private tutor and executive function coach, Jessica helps students with organization, time management, introducing new study skills, and academic struggles.

Jessica McLaren is an active member in the disability community and a public speaker advocating and educating about learning disabilities and ADHD. She is on the board of the Learning Disabilities Association of Maryland in Montgomery County and a co-leader of an online support group for young adults with ADHD and learning disabilities. As a board member she assists and educates teachers, administrators, and parents about learning disabilities and the different services available. As a co-leader, Jessica supports and helps young adults with different challenges that are faced daily. This may include struggles in the work place, at home, with friends or family or just in general. Jessica has great desire to help others see their success and support them in anyway possible.

Jessica McLaren has presented about self-advocacy and learning disabilities to elementary aged children, college students, and organizations. Jessica spoke at the 2019 Learning Disabilities Association of America Annual Conference about the Impact educators and parents have on a successful transition for individuals with learning disabilities and ADHD.

In her spare time, Jessica enjoys watching sports, especially football and basketball, traveling, and spending time outside with family and friends. Her favorite football team is the Buffalo Bills and during football session she can be found watching the game! Most importantly Jessica likes to make people smile and believe in themselves. She always says “We can all achieve success! We define success, no one else does.”

Elizabeth Schiff

March 20, 2020

Elizabeth Schiff is an enthusiastic Learning Specialist and private tutor with over 25 years experience teaching and tutoring reading, writing, math, science, French, and social studies for K-8th grades, as well as English, history and French for high school students. Elizabeth has an MS.Ed in Elementary Education from Bank Street College of Education, an AB in English and American Literature from Brown University, and she graduated from The Brearley School. Elizabeth has taught all grades from Kindergarten to 4th and has tutored many students in 1st through 12th grades. Moreover, she is trained in Orton- Gillingham based interventions, including PAF.

Elizabeth Schiff absolutely loves teaching and makes learning fun! She has taught at private, public and charter schools, and has extensive experience with a broad range of learning styles and differences, including: ADD/ADHD; executive functioning; dyslexia and decoding; graphomotor/fine motor; processing; short term memory; receptive and expressive language; visual-spatial and motor planning; and anxiety disorder. She focuses on improving students’ self-esteem by offering consistent positive encouragement and feedback, supporting them academically, and teaching them the skills and analytical thinking they need in order to be successful.

Through informal assessments, Elizabeth develops an individualized plan that addresses each student’s strengths, interests and needs, and she uses a wide variety of developmentally-appropriate methodologies, resources, games and activities specifically designed for each student. She gives frequent oral and written feedback to parents, and stays in close communication with teachers and learning specialists when appropriate. She generally works long-term with students, but she also does test preparation for the ISEE, the SHSAT and the SSAT, and she teaches interview skills.

Elizabeth Schiff has tutored students from Dalton, Chapin, Brearley, Ethical Culture/Fieldston, Columbia Grammar, Trevor Day, Rodeph Sholom, The Town School, The Dwight School, Professional Children’s School, United Nations International School, Speyer Legacy, Stephen Gaynor, Gateway and multiple public schools.

Jordi Rozenman

February 13, 2020

Jordi Rozenman is a highly experienced and enthusiastic private tutor specializing in writing, reading, and literature. She taught high school English for five years in public and private schools, and was the Associate Director of College Counseling at The Field School in Washington, DC. Jordi is currently pursuing a master’s degree in the great books program at St. John’s College. While attending graduate school, she has had the pleasure of working with the college office at Georgetown Day School, helping seniors in all stages of writing their college essays. In the summer of 2019, Jordi became an online discussion leader for Classical Academic Press, leading students in thoughtful and vibrant discussion in courses such as The Odyssey and Oedipus Rex. Outside the classroom, she has extensive private tutoring experience with students from DC and Northern Virginia schools.

Jordi Rozenman is the winner of an ETS Award for Excellence on the English Language, Literature, and Composition Praxis exam, and completed the College Board’s training to teach AP Literature. In October 2019, she had the opportunity to present at the annual conference of the Association for Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, giving a paper entitled “Literature for Human Beings,” drawing on her experiences teaching English. She has published op-eds as well as poetry, and is thrilled about her recent poetry publication in Confluence. You can also find her poems in Hill Rag, Colloquy, and Energeia. She has been a featured poetry reader at the DC literary reading series The Inner Loop, and at the Capitol Hill Book Fest.

Beyond reading and writing, Jordi loves dance, and was the founder and coach of the dance team at The Field School. She had the great fortune to study at the Sorbonne in Paris during college, and for this reason is also a huge fan of French food (most importantly, Nutella). She is a hot chocolate connoisseur, and can tell you the best places to find hot chocolate in DC, ranked. Jordi adores working with students and discussing anything to do with books and writing (even grammar), and can’t wait to discuss with you!

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