I'll show you how to do math in a way that works for your unique brain. Special bonus: it's fun and interesting - even if you've never liked math before!

✔️Do better in math class

✔️Feel confident and use your strengths

✔️Manage your learning differences, test anxiety, and other math challenges

✔️Learn why math is fun and interesting

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I'm a seasoned pro when it comes to math education. Here's a bit of my experience and training.

⭐25 years of teaching math to diverse learners

⭐Wrote my M.A. thesis on 'mathematical flexibility' and have peer-reviewed publications in the area of math education

⭐I have a masters in educational psychology with a focus on learning disabilities

⭐Trained and led staff of 20 math teachers for a decade

⭐When kids do math with me they start loving it - especially kids who didn't like it before!

When I help students learn online, they often increase their marks and decrease their stress. In BC there’s 55 schools to choose from, and they work just like regular public schools.

✔️Get credits just like the ones you get at your ‘in person’ school

✔️Work fully online, or take a few courses online while you stay at your school.

✔️ Learn to use your strengths and avoid challenges like test anxiety.

✔️ Get core academic credits, or unique enrichment credits you can’t get at your ‘in person’ school

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I know a ton about online learning, especially in BC. I’ve been providing programs to kids working online for nearly 20 years, and I’ve seen it all. I know about funding, accrediting, and most importantly, how to make the learning experience valuable.

⭐ I’ve worked with online schools across the province and know the pluses and minuses to each.

⭐ I’ve helped 100s of kids graduate online, and go to their post-secondary school of choice.

⭐ I help kids find the most efficient route to finishing, while making sure the learning sticks.

⭐ Kids often see a big grade increase, even though the courses can be more difficult, because they’re able to work in a way that works.

Guess what, I’m not just an educator! I’m also an entrepreneur who’s sold his first company, a researcher who’s published on a variety of topics, and a technologist who owns an online learning platform. I have a degree in economics and psychology, in addition to my masters in Educational Psychology. I make music, do live theatre, and volunteer with my local neighbourhood house. I’m engaged in politics and journalism. And I’m about to publish my first podcast.

There’s NOTHING I love more than sharing this wide knowledge base with my students.

✔️ Learn how invisible forces shape our lives and choices.

✔️ Tell me what you wonder about, and we’ll investigate it together.

✔️ Find out if you might enjoy econ, psych, philosophy, or other university subjects with a mini deep-dive

✔️ Learn the things that school doesn’t teach

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Way back in 2001, I was planning to go be a rock star in Toronto (😂). At the time I mostly tutored math. Then, one of my students needed to leave school, and we started exploring the wider world of knowledge….and I realized that I need to teach!!! I changed my plans and started working with more enrichment clients.

⭐ I’ve done educational buffets with kids as young as 7 …. all the way up to adults who want to pick up some of what they missed in school.

⭐ Kids LOVE these deep dives, because I build the program on top of what they’re wondering about, and I use a curious-wondering approach rather than giving them ‘delivered truths’

⭐ If kids are game, I often jump between science, media, and art, on the same topic.

⭐ I find that learning about the wider world can sometimes help feel more motivated for school and formal learning

I'll help you get a handle on school so you deal with long-standing challenges, reduce school stress, and use your strengths to succeed.

✔️Do better in school (and enjoy it more!)

✔️Less need for parents to manage school

✔️Use your strengths to reduce stress and do awesome things

✔️Get help with school meetings and learning plans

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I've done this so many times! The key is building a totally unique 'school success' program for each kid.

⭐I've worked with 100s of kids who need holistic school support - by the end, they enjoy school so much more! (I love that).

⭐I'm hired by public schools to implement unique and specialized learning plans for students. (Since ~ 2009)

⭐I meet with teachers, counsellors, and admin to help improve learning programs for my studnets.

⭐My published research is in areas of self-regulated learning and help seeking.

I love working with kids who hate writing, or struggle to do it. I get it! I use an interest-based approach, and we make writing fun and doable.

✔️ Write for school, or learn to write about what you love (or both).

✔️ Stop spending hours staring at a blank screen (learn how to get started!).

✔️ Find your ‘voice’ as a writer, and write with a style that’s your own.

✔️ Express all the complex ideas floating around in your head.

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So many kids struggle with output! It can be an underlying learning disability, stress under pressure, or any of a wide variety of possible causes. I’ve seen them all, and I use a kind, low-stress, method to get kids writing.

⭐ I’ve helped kids write better at all ages: from Elementary School to University

⭐ I’m a master at making it meaningful, which means my students are game to write and eager to share the results.

⭐ I focus on both process and output - so that the work quality is better, but the process less painful.

⭐ Kids love seeing their work improve, and they usually hear about it from their teachers, too.

I love when kids have deep interests and strong passions - no matter what they are! I show my students how to nurture their curiosity, building skills and deep knowledge as they go.

✔️ Spend a month going deep into your area of interest

✔️ Share all you know, and find new avenues to explore

✔️ Discover how your interest works ‘in the real world’ and learn about career opportunities (if you want to)

✔️ Create projects, exhibitions, and other outputs that share what you’ve learned in our month.

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These students are so fun! I love exploring what a student finds relevant and exciting to learn, and I’ve been doing it since I began in the education field.

⭐ I’m currently hired by public schools to work with kids who have unique passions and interests.

⭐ I’ve worked with kids on SO many interests: from animals, to brains, to trains, to …… you name it, I’ve done it!

⭐ My past ‘deep dive’ students find my curiosity and excitement for learning inspiring

⭐ We often use these passions as a jumping off point for further exploration.