Our Teachers

Maureen Nisch

Maureen is a  licensed reading specialist with nearly two decades of experience working with children ages 6-18 with neurodiverse learning profiles. These learning profiles have consisted of dyslexia, dysgraphia, hyperlexia, attention deficits, and executive functioning challenges. She is a graduate of Radford University in Radford, Virginia with a degree in English Education. She attended graduate school at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City, and received two Master’s degrees in English (Language Arts) and the Reading Specialist Program. Her current and past teaching experiences have been in public, private, and non-profit educational settings. She is a proud former educator of Eagle Hill School in Greenwich, CT where she was expertly trained in multi-sensory techniques as they related to her students with language-based learning differences. Outside of her graduate school hours, she holds an Orton-Gillingham Educator's certificate as well as Level 1, Educational Therapy training from the National Institute for Learning Development (an OG program). Currently, she splits her time between instructing students at Wind Dance Farm in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, being a clinical supervisor for student teachers at Western Governors University and offering online tutoring and consulting services.

Dannielle Andrew

Dannielle is from Powder Springs, Georgia. She was a microbiologist for 20 years before going back to school to get her education degree.
Because she has always loved math, she wanted to help middle school students understand it.
She taught 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. Math was her main focus, but she also taught science and social studies. She recently retired from teaching full time. Dannielle thinks it is important for students to like math in order to understand it, so she tried to make class fun. With
18 years of teaching under her belt, she looks forward to tutoring students and helping them comprehend
what they are studying.
She has been married for 36 years to a wonderful guy, and they have 3 grown children and 3 grandchildren
(a 4th one is on the way!)

 

Her family loves going to the beach! In her spare time she refinishes furniture, paints, and reads mysteries.

Her favorite teaching quote is “Students don’t care what you know until they know that you care.”

Antonieta Martinez

Antonieta is from Acworth, Georgia.  She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Education. She is originally from Valparaiso, Chile, and is passionate about helping students learn the Spanish language and culture.  She currently works as a high school and middle school facilitator, and she really enjoy seeing students developing new language skills. In her spare time, she enjoys playing the guitar, watching movies, and of course, spending quality time with my family and my furry baby, Jojo.

Brad Martz

Brad is from Seattle, Washington.

He earned a state certificate to teach grades 4-12 Mathematics and K-12 Music. Brad is well versed in many subject areas. He enjoys learning. To date he has a total credit of approximately ~350 with ~90 in math, ~60in Computer Science, ~200 in music. Brad has been married for thirty-two years, he has two grown children with his first grand baby on the way.  His hobbies include, jazz piano, teaching piano, math history, chess, and Call of Duty Mobile.

 

Brad says, "I think the most basic unit of ‘Logic’ is contained in Mathematics. ‘It’s the Physics of the Universe. ‘It’ is a beautiful subject of concepts that
built on each other, to allow us to model situations up to the limit our
imagination. The problems ‘it’ can solve are amazing and endless. You
and I are only held back by our inability to imagine the learning path.
Chase knowledge regarding what you’re curious about.
With mathematics, I have enjoyed teaching: Elementary: Math: Number
concepts and classifications, Percents, Fractions, Decimals, Middle:
General Math, 7th Grade Math, Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, High: Algebra
1B, Geometry I, Trigonometry, Geometry 2. Please ask questions!" 

Terri Woodward

Terri is from Marietta, Georgia. She has been in education for 15+ years and holds a

master’s degree in Applied Behavior Analysis. She has taught all subjects through 8th grade and can also teach high school geometry.  I am special education certified P-12 and currently help transition

students from high school into a post-secondary setting whether it be college, trade school or one of the many free training programs available in several states. If your student has an IEP or is struggling to find direction after high school, please reach out, and we can chat.

Carolyn Barber

Carolyn is from Glen Burnie, Maryland. She is an avid reader, and she loves helping people understand complex academic topics. Before becoming a teacher, Carolyn was an accountant. She has been a teacher for five years.

Additionally,  she also holds a Master's Degree in Teaching and Learning. She is a passionate student-focused teacher with experience developing and implementing a differentiated math experience.  She works diligently to improve the skills of students in number sense, algebraic expressions, vocabulary,  sentence writing, and graphing.  

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