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Sage Haas

December 26, 2016

Sage Haas is an elementary school teacher and private tutor with over a decade of experience. For as long as Sage can remember, she has always wanted to be a teacher and learning specialist. She graduated from SUNY Buffalo with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences and a concentration in Education. Sage then completed a dual Master’s degree in childhood general and special education at Hunter College, as well as an advanced certificate in Gifted and Talented Education. While in graduate school at Hunter College, Sage was an Assistant Teacher at PS6 in Manhattan, where she developed a passion for a full inclusion model. She taught 3rd grade ICT at Brooklyn Arbor Elementary School (PS414) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for 5 years until relocating to London, UK. For the past 3 years, she taught at The American School in London and worked in grades 2, 3 and 4. She is proud to say that she truly loves what she does.

Sage believes that all children are unique in the way they think, grow, learn and explore. With the rigorous standards for school children today, Sage understands the importance of finding a way into the curriculum both as a classroom teacher and private tutor. In working with a wide range of students, Sage has been able to tailor instruction, materials, and supports in order to meet these diverse needs. Whether working with an individual, a small group, or a whole class, making real-world connections and making learning meaningful is a priority to her. Through exploration, discovery and practice, students will acquire the knowledge needed to forge connections, think critically, and foster the skills that lead to a healthy and fulfilling life.

In Sage’s free time she enjoys reading, art, traveling, hiking, cooking, and spending time with family and friends.

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.

Emily Andrews

August 26, 2015

Emily Andrews is an Early Childhood Learning Specialist.

She works as an independent consultant at a variety of private preschools as well as working one-on-one with children and families as a private tutor and parent coach.

She visits children in their homes and in their classrooms to observe, play, and make suggestions to their teachers and parents regarding how best to support their developing learning skills.

Emily has worked at a variety of early childhood settings in New York City for over ten years and has had a variety of roles ranging from a classroom teacher, a SEIT, a program director, and a consultant. She has unique program development experience having helped launch both an afters chool program and an inclusion preschool and has insights as to what skills a child may need to strengthen in order to thrive in a variety of educational settings.

Emily received a dual Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education and Special Education from Bank Street College in 2007. In 2010, Emily was honored to be selected as one of 12 individuals for Bank Street’s Autism Annotation program, a U.S. federal fellowship that focused on deepening one’s preparation to work with student’s on the autism spectrum. Emily is passionate about supporting all children’s learning and classroom readiness skills, including: attention, executive functioning, social cognition, and most importantly CONFIDENCE. She believes that children acquire these skills most successfully when they are introduced through individualized play techniques that draw upon the child’s true interests and strengths.

Emily is also a parent to a lively and charming two year old girl!

Nicole DeMartino

July 20, 2015

Nicole DeMartino wanted to become a teacher since she was a child and gets to live out her dreams every day as a classroom teacher at PS 172 in Brooklyn, a model inclusion school, where she joined the faculty in 2013. In additional to her full time work with the NYC DOE, Nicole is also a part-time Director and Curriculum and Instruction Specialist with My Learning Springboard. She previously taught at the Parkside School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She received her B.A. at the University of Miami in 2009, with a double major in elementary education and Spanish language, and continued her education at NYU, earning her Master’s degree in Childhood Special Education.

Nicole DeMartino has experience teaching and tutoring a diverse group of students from many backgrounds and with varying abilities. In Miami, she completed her student teaching experience in a 2nd grade general education classroom and assumed all roles and responsibilities of the classroom teacher. While studying at NYU, Nicole did her student teaching in a 1st grade CTT classroom at P.S. 261 in Brooklyn and in a 5th grade self-contained classroom at The Parkside School on the Upper West Side. After developing a strong, positive relationship with Parkside, Nicole was offered a full-time teaching position as a 2nd grade teacher. She believes that all students learn differently and, therefore, she uses a variety of materials, methodologies, and targeted support to differentiate her instruction.

In her free time, Nicole enjoys traveling, reading, cooking, seeing movies, and spending time with family and friends in NYC and on Long Island.

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