Spanish tutoring for all levels and all abilities

Experience

Private Spanish Language Instructor, Silicon Valley
30+ years in business

• Clients range from middle schoolers to professionals to military personnel                              

• Zero-in on clients weaknesses and determine appropriate, custom teaching techniques to implement so that the client’s language goals are met 

• Academic language planning: Evaluate student’s abilities and recommend individual academic foreign language coursework plan                                  

• Tutor of first choice when a student is in an academically compromised position 

• Unusual, complex, and challenging teaching projects resulting in unabridged success  

Spanish Language Teacher, Menlo-Atherton High School for 30+ years
Department Chair 2010-2016

• Earned the Stanford Univerisity Teacher Tribute Award for Exceptional Teaching

• Advanced Placement Instruction: Top passing rate since 2010

• Instruction enhanced with Neuro-Linguistic Programming

• Observed a need for a program to serve a growing Native Speaker population

  • In collaboration with a colleague, rolled out Spanish for Native Speaker Program in 1995 

  • After 25 years the Native Speaker Program continues to flourish and has quadrupled in size 

Languages Spoken

English (bilingual)

Spanish  (bilingual)

French (fluent)

Schools tutored:

Aragon High School
Bellarmine College Preparatory
Carlmont High School
Castilleja School
Crystal Springs Uplands School
Design Tech High School
Folsom High School
Girls Middle School
Harker School
Hillview Middle School
Henry Gunn High School
La Entrada Middle School
Loyola Marymount University
Menlo-Atherton High School
Menlo College
Menlo School
Nueva School
Our Lady of Angels School
Palo Alto High School
Sacred Heart
Santa Clara University
Serra High School
St. Francis High School
Summit Preparatory Charter High School
TASIS England Day and Boarding School
University of San Diego
Urban High School
Woodside Elementary
Woodside Priory