About Blocked

*I have taught test prep for over 23 years, but my last several years were spent on a special project of sorts: helping my own autistic children prepare for, and then succeed in, public school. I couldn't be prouder of the results, and now I get to focus on my teaching career again! NOTE: I was recently given a very critical review by a client who told me in our intake meeting that she had already worked with several tutors, blaming each of them for her lack of improvement. I accepted her as a client in good faith, and even extended the length of our intake meeting and first meeting at no charge in an attempt to assess why she wasn't seeing improvement. At our second meeting, she had clearly not spent any time working on the exam and was already blaming my methods and content despite not trying to actually do the work employing them. I have taught test prep for 24 years with great success for the solid majority of my clients. I'm going to be frank with you because improvement requires self-knowledge and the humility needed to improve. Please read that review. I believe that its tone and content will support everything that I have said here. If you are willing to put in the work and listen to an expert who has been through this hundreds of times, let's get started! *While I was blessed with the deductive and analytic ability to score well on these exams and the ability to articulate explanations well, I am also very affected by ADHD in my executive function and some types of memory and learning curves. While I enjoy working with anyone, this has always given me a certain insight with atypical students: both those from modest backgrounds like mine, and those with processing or sensory issues, obstacles toward gaining certain skills, or neurodivergence. *As I grew my business, and then again in smaller markets, I complemented test prep with work in fine dining. While I know more about wine and cuisine than the average tutor, the more important outcome is my dream of opening an ice cream cafe in which I do all of the churning and roasting myself. Feel free to ask me off-the-clock about my zero-carb-sugar ice creams. Or about whether using a double-hyphen is allowable in the previous sentence. ;) *In my free time I enjoy playing with my kids, playing board and card games, playing acoustic guitar, and hiking.