After teaching for nearly 40 years, I began a tutoring business which has been going strong for nine years. I have helped countless individuals learn to read when other programs failed them. My background as a Reading Recovery teacher and twenty years of teaching remedial reading and math in the public schools have made all the difference! Besides teaching reading, comprehension, writing, phonics, spelling, English, study skills and test preparation, I also teach art on the side. I earned a Specialist (EdS) degree in reading instruction and a PhD degree in Education from Michigan State University. Before I retired from teaching, I was a