Certifications/Trainings

WA State Elementary K-8 Teaching license
-Certifies me to teach students in grades k through 8 math, reading, writing, spelling, grammar, handwriting, science and social studies.

ISME Orton-Gillingham K-2
– Supports and guides me to teach the Orton-Gillingham methodology to students in k through 2nd grade. This includes all 26 letters of the alphabet and their associated sound, phonological awareness and phonemic awareness, comprehension, fluency and prosody, long vowel patterns, affixes, grammar rules and so much more.

ISME Orton-Gillingham 3-5
– Supports and guides me to teach the Orton-Gillingham methodology to students in 3rd to 5th grade. This includes reviewing k through 2nd grade concepts and introduces advanced spellings patterns, the rules associated with those patterns and so much more.

ISME Morphology 3-5
– Supports and guides me to teach Morphology to students in 3rd to 5th. Morphology is the study of the form and structure of our language. Introducing students to where some of the most common prefixes, suffixes and roots came from i.e. Greek or Latin.

LiPS by Linda Mood-bell
– Supports and guides me to support students that have basic trouble making letter sounds. It assists me in guiding students’ articulators to make the appropriate sound for that letter. It allows me to show students the minute similarities and differences in certain sounds.

SAT/ACT Tutor Training
– Supports and guides me to support students who are taking the SAT or ACT who want a better score than the past or taking the test for the first time. It assists me in personalizing their program to zero in on what math, English or science topic we need to cover.

ISME Grammar and Writing
– Supports and guides me to teach or review grammar topics like nouns, verbs and adjectives and writing topics like the writing process and phrases and clauses.