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We at Teachers As Tutors are so proud to welcome Elizabeth Bush as our newest tutor!

A message from Elizabeth:

"Hello! My name is Elizabeth Bush, and I am in my 4^th year of teaching. I graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor’s in Special Education and am certified to teach Reading, ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies to students in grades K-8. I also have my English Language Arts certification to teach ELA to students in grades 9-12. I have taught in both middle school and high school, primarily teaching ELA to students with mild learning disabilities. I also have experience as a co-teacher, pushing into other classrooms and working with students with a wide range of...

Shenaz Lilywala

Shenaz is trained in the Orton Gillingham (OG) approach and has been using and seeing success with it for the last 4 years in her 1st grade classroom. She is passionate about using the OG approach as it gives her the opportunity to provide explicit multisensory instruction that she wished she had. She strongly believes that each and every child should be able to read. She saw how powerful the explicit instruction was that she was able to help her struggling students grow while being a virtual teacher the whole year during the pandemic. She believes in each child’s ability to learn and improve in their skills. Her goal is to be diagnostic and provide explicit instruction ...

Kim Marie Hedges

Originally an English and Communication dual major graduating Summa Cum Laude from Canisius College of Buffalo, New York, Kim Marie became a certified teacher to share her love of English/Literature studies and Language Arts with children of all ages. She has taught in the elementary and middle grades classrooms for over 15 years, implementing and facilitating a creative literature and grammar curriculum for her classes in both public and private school systems in Georgia, Florida, and Texas. Kim Marie has tutored over 20 years from Pre-K through high school students, specializing in reading comprehension, grammar, writing, and literary analysis.

With the little ones, she l...

Diane Hughs can tutor in-home in Cobb County!

Diane graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Georgia. She is a Birthing of Giants Alumni, MIT. She hold Teaching certification in the states ofTexas and Georgia. Diane taught Language Arts and Reading. She is certified in English as a Second Language grades 4 - 8. Further, she was trained under Teach for America after a career in entreprenteurship.

Diane specializes in skills gained from both careers. She uses inovative and creative strategies to break down complex concepts to simpliest form for the student, then building back to the complex for greater understanding. She teaches to the student's strenghts, while building up...

In Their Own Words:

Courtney Toribio

"As an educator and tutor, I have over 18 years of experience working with children with special needs and elementary/middle school students. I am highly-skilled in teaching struggling readers and am certified in Elementary and Special Education, as well as Orton Gillingham trained. I am experienced with developing and implementing goals to enhance student achievement. I can collaborate with teachers, child study teams, and parents for students with autism, learnng disabilities, developmental delays, and behavioral issues, I consider myself a kindhearted and empathetic professional who develops hands-on lessons and differentiates instruction to meet the nee...

In-Home Digital Learning Support

With so many counties starting digital learning for the 2020-2021 school year, we are creating solutions for your child to succeed this academic year- and parents to not lose their mind in the process. Many parents saw a mental health impact due to the sudden change in March, the loss of structure of school provided, and the loss of socialization with peers. In partnership with Johns Creek and Alpharetta Counseling’s Child counselors, we have created a plan to help your child thrive academically and emotionally!

We are forming small groups for students to learn in home with a Certified Teacher. These groups will be hosted by one of the families of the s...