You know your child thrives on 1:1 connection and learning at their own pace, but with their siblings, your busy work schedule, and a loving home to run you can’t always prioritize sitting down with one child to master their math lessons.
You’re worried that they aren’t grasping their adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing, fractions, decimals, or any other range of math skills. Why not?
They can do it. You know they could if they just had accountability, a 1:1 teacher explaining it all in a way they can understand, or even just an extra hour each week practicing with a knowledgeable instructor.
I can help. I teach Kindergarten through adult learners with an emphasis on upper elementary and middle school students. I offer private tutoring in which students come to my home, usually once or twice each week, to make steady progress on their math skills, number sense, computation, reading, writing, and spelling. Most lessons are structured with explicit teaching intentionally designed to meet your individual student’s learning needs followed by fun, engaging learning games designed to make the tough subjects memorable and fun while working towards mastery together.
"When we understand the reading process, we are better equipped to support our students as they become readers." -Amie Burkholder, Literacy Unlocked
As the parent, you know your children more completely than anyone else. Combine this with my additional knowledge of children’s brains as they learn and develop and we may be an excellent team to advocate for your child as they become a strong, confident reader and problem solver.
Effective tutoring should:
Sometimes it takes a silly song to remember how to spell “because”. A series of goofy sounds helped one kid learn to add quickly. Two 6th graders helped design their own variation of Chutes and Ladders with black holes, magic lollipop teleportation, and rainbow bridges to prepare them for the math final exam. Multiplication is explained with marbles, watermelon cups, bean bag bananas, and Twister.
How to choose the right tutor:
Since the pandemic, there has been a trend in schools to experiment with ““high-impact tutoring”. Essentially this practice involves tutors like me working 2-3 times each week with small groups of students to see massive academic growth in a few short months. Often (LINK STUDY FROM STANFORD NSSA) a full years’ worth of content and “four months of additional learning in elementary literacy and nearly ten months of additional learning in secondary math” can be observed after “high impact tutoring” for one school year (Loeb 2024).
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About 80% of public schools across the nation have launched or improved tutoring programs since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, many of which started using the “high-impact tutoring” model of having students meet one on one or in small groups of 2-4 for thirty minute sessions three times per week for several months. These programs, when done correctly, can result in “more than four months of additional learning in elementary literacy and nearly ten months of additional learning in secondary math”, according to Susanna Loeb of Stanford University and the National Student Support Accelerator (www.future-ed.org/could-tutoring-be-the-next-big-bipartisan-school-reform/). Of course, these programs might not yet be available at your child’s school or you may be seeking a similar solution for your homeschooled students
Teach your child the 44 written sounds of the English language in fun ways that set them up for confident reading.
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Learn to read short chapter books with longer words such as (open syllable, three syllable, and prefix/suffix word list)
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Apply spelling patterns and Latin/Greek roots to spell words such as (soft c words, root specific words, double consonant words, and diphthong vowel words) in addition to gaining stamina, grammar, and organization to write high-quality essays, poetry, reports, narratives, and other writing
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Teach your child to add, subtract, count coins, organize numbers, measure objects, and confidently move forward in the next steps of math.
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Learn to multiply, divide, use fractions, find a missing number, work with negative integers, and (confident, fun, automatic/fluent/mastery/thorough understanding, like math… help with words please)
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Solve inequalities, multiply fractions, prove why angles are congruent, and apply other more complex math skills in a fun, accountable environment explaining it all in a way you understand
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Hi! I’m Julia. I’m a wife, mom of two, former public school teacher, current home-school co-op teacher, and I may be a great addition to your family’s village of support. I quit the teaching job I loved when I first became a mama. I was a middle school English Language Arts teacher at Linglestown Middle School in Central Dauphin School District and prior to that I was a paraeducator at IU13. Now I tutor students privately from my home in Middletown, PA. I also teach math classes at CHESS, a home-school co-op in Elizabethtown. I’m actively involved in our church, Hope Community Church in Mount Joy, through a wonderful small group, the Awana ministry, and the Moms in Prayer group.
When I left my fun yellow classroom in January 2024, I loved being home with my newborn but I missed connecting with students and their families. I had plenty of skills to share. In June 2024 I started tutoring a middle schooler who wanted to pass a placement test into her new school. In July 2024 I began working with a few more tutoring families for consistent growth throughout the school year. Most of them were new home-schoolers who wanted support from a professional teacher. I offered accountability and academic scaffolding to fill in the gaps left by public school classrooms of 30+ students that didn’t notice the one kid who quietly didn’t understand.
In August 2024 I started teaching some math and literature classes at our local home-school co-op and connecting with those families. My then six-month-old son thrived surrounded by the “big kids” learning with mom. As he grew, they taught him to high five, put white board markers away, and sort fraction tiles. In June 2025 my little tutoring business also grew (as did my little family!), now serving 16 students and their families. My husband lovingly made me this website to further connect with parents and students who may need my services later.
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I am so thankful for Julia! My daughter was not a fan of math until she started tutoring with Julia over the summer. She made it so much fun for her. She came home on her second day of the new school year and told us how much she likes math now. She is already talking about how much she is looking forward to tutoring again next summer!
Julia began tutoring my 8 year old daughter, during her 2nd grade year. She learned (rather quickly) who my daughter is — her strengths, weaknesses and little nuances about how she learns and retains information. There is so much creativity and thought behind her teaching and there is no shortage of fun. She is organized and also flexible. If you are considering Julia for tutoring, I say do it! We are so blessed to have her!
Julia is so incredibly kind and extremely knowledgeable! As a newer home-school Mom, having Julia to track with our progress as my daughter learns to read has given me so much peace of mind. Julia is always planning such fun and interactive games and materials that my kindergartner never wants to leave!
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