Get help with reading, from decoding to comprehension and test taking. All ages. All levels.
Andrea Alig is a licensed, creative and experienced teacher. With over 20 years’ experience, she teaches and tutors elementary school reading and grammar skills, elementary and high school art elementary school math, and English Literature in high school and college. She has many years of experience in teaching high school and college English, and Special Ed. K through 12. She also tutors ESL. Over the years, she has helped hundreds of students of all ages K through 12 and college who have learning challenges with a large degree of success. She combines her resources of poetry, language arts, and special education diagnosis and remediation in order to bring the whole child or adult student to the next level of learning and growth. There is no such thing as an “unteachable student;” only missing information in the student’s educational learning style! Above all, learning can be fun!
Brian Gartland is the head tutor for The Ethnic Minorities of Burma Advocacy and Resource Center in Des Moines, Iowa where he assists refugees from Burma to study for their United States citizen immigration test. Brian was also a United Nations High Commission for Refugees associate resettlement officer in Thailand on the Burmese-Thai border.After working in the refugee camps for two years, Brian taught at Rangsit University in Thailand for eight years. Brian began teaching online in 2017 and has taught 8,000 lessons since then. In 2019, he taught essay writing at Pannasastra University of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. His motto is “There is no trick to being successful in life. You have to work hard!” Brian teaches ESL, international history, U.S. history, reading comprehension, and intermediate English essay writing.
Charles Fennell is a retired teacher/ counselor with over 40 years’ experience in the public school system. His career has taken me through 6 school systems in urban, suburban and rural environments, working with a diverse population from students with limited resources to affluent families with high expectations. Charles enjoys teaching Neurodiverse and Neurotypical students. Charles’ teaching/ counseling style adjusts with the needs and goals of the individual, but the focus always remains the same: help the students reach their maximum potential, attending to the whole child, integrated with family support and input. Your journey together will be fun, exciting and challenging.
Era is a music teacher and an educational assistant/ writing tutor. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education and a Master’s in Higher Education
Leadership. She is currently a music teacher with experience teaching piano, voice, and music theory.She is a believer that we all have our own learning styles and she
values student-centered planning. Also, she teaches Essay writing, ESL, and supplemental English classes at Naugatuck Valley Community College where she assists students with all stages of the writing process from topic identification through final editing across a variety of academic disciplines.
