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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.

Deborah Berebichez

March 5, 2020

Deborah Berebichez is the first Mexican woman to graduate from Stanford University with a PhD in Physics, and she uses her education and background to make science approachable to a wide range of audiences. Debbie co-hosts Discovery Channel’s Outrageous Acts of Science TV show, where she uses her knowledge of physics to explain the science behind extraordinary engineering feats. She also appears as an expert on the Travel Channel, NOVA, CNN, FOX, MSNBC and numerous international media outlets.

Deborah is the Chief Data Scientist at Metis where she leads the creation and growth of exceptional data science training opportunities. Her responsibilities include ensuring the excellence of Metis’ data science bootcamps, corporate training, professional development as well as online programs. She is an active contributor to the national data science ecosystem through frequent public speaking and presentations on panels at data science conferences.

Deborah Berebichez completed two postdoctoral fellowships at Columbia University’s Applied Math and Physics Department and at NYU’s Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences where she carried out research in the area of acoustic waves. She invented a highly effective technique in the field of wireless communications whereby a cell phone user can communicate with a desired target user in a location far away.

Deborah’s work in science education and outreach has been recognized by the WSJ, Oprah, TED, DLD, WIRED, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and others. She has recently been recognized as an AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador for inspiring and empowering young women to learn science and to improve the state of STEM education in the world. She is a John C. Whitehead Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association, a winner of the Society of SHPE’s STAR Award and a recipient for Top Latina Tech Blogger by the Association of Latinos in Social Media LATISM.

Deborah has privately tutored and mentored students from middle school through college and can offer test preparation and coaching with the ISEE, SAT, ACT, SAT Subject Tests (Math, Physics, Spanish), AP Exams (Math, Physics, Spanish, Computer Science, Statistics) and GRE Physics. She can also help coach students at the college level in math and physics.

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!

Daniel Penny

February 6, 2020

Daniel Penny is an educator and writer with an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University, a BA in English from Grinnell College, and an AA in liberal arts from Bard High School Early College. A Brooklyn native, he lives in Cambridge, UK and teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Cambridge Centre for Creative Writing. When he’s not teaching, he writes about art, design, and culture for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and elsewhere. He is also a former editorial staff-member at The New Yorker.

Since 2013, Daniel Penny has been a private tutor, writing coach, and editor, and has worked with clients at every stage of the writing process, from the blank page to the final draft. Some of these projects include: college and graduate school admissions materials, academic papers, reading responses, creative writing manuscripts, presentations, and artist statements. Daniel is also adept at helping clients improve their reading and writing standardized test scores, having achieved a perfect score himself in the reading section of the SAT.

As a professor in the first year writing program at Parsons School of Design and a former instructor at Columbia University’s Writing Center, Daniel subscribes to a writing pedagogy of agency, meaning that the student leads the session, and through targeted, yet open-ended questions from the tutor, their writing develops. To write well, Daniel believes that students must be able to read critically, and for this reason, he strongly emphasizes the techniques of close analysis, annotation, and reflection. When possible, he also encourages students to find ways to write about what they are passionate about so that students begin to see their research as an extension of their interests rather than the mere fulfillment of an assignment. His clients have included many differently abled students and students for whom English is a second language. Daniel is a committed, knowledgeable educator whose passion is to help students learn to write cogently and persuasively.

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