About Me

I am a secondary education English teacher and I have my MEd. I'm in my fourth year of teaching and have been tutoring for six years.

I have ample experience working with neurodivergent students and those with learning differences. I've spent two years teaching special education inclusion classes, and I excel in meeting the needs of all different types of learners. As an ADHDer myself, I understand different ways of processing and can help students best explain and organize their thoughts. 

In 2021, I graduated with my BA from Endicott College in my individually designed major, "The Human Perspective." This was a mix of English, secondary education, sociology, and psychology. I feel as though you need to understand people in order to be the best teacher you can be, and during my time in undergrad, I focused on the art of storytelling. During my time at Endicott, I worked as a tutor in the writing center. My sophomore year of Endicott allowed me to travel to Kenya for an internship. Here, I taught writing and composition to students aged 9-16 for a month in a city outside of Nairobi.

Right after graduation, I began my master's program at Merrimack College, completing my MEd in secondary education in May of 2022. During that year, I taught 8th grade English full-time in Lawrence, MA. 

In 2022, I taught 10th grade world literature in the Greater Boston area. Here, I designed the 10th grade curriculum while teaching multiple special education inclusion classes.

Now, you'll find me teaching year 7-13 (or grades 6 to 12) in England, where I plan on spending the foreseeable future as I expand my career.

I've always loved the freedom of expression the written word has to offer. As someone with ADHD, thoughts can be jumbled. For some reason, whenever I write, they flow out clearly. Writing has always been a way to simplify and share everything bouncing around in my brain.

I find joy in many different types of writing. Creatively, I spend time writing songs and poems. I also enjoy research and analysis, some of my favorite things to work on with students, besides narratives.

I was diagnosed with ADHD in 2022. While I don't find that ADHD affects my writing at all, the diagnosis has been monumental in understanding the way I think and function.

In 2015, I suffered from a severe concussion. It left me with post concussion syndrome, delayed processing, and short term memory loss. While my processing speeds have improved, my brain doesn't work like it used to. Studying took me longer in college, and it was harder to remember what I had previously learned.

As a teacher and writer, my ADHD and processing differences allow me to best help all writers. I developed skills for those who have ADHD or struggle with organization while writing. I am able to ask questions in order to help writers continue a train of thought when they might have forgotten where their idea was going. I can develop my way of teaching to a student's need, as I had to do this for myself while relearning how to learn.