If you are an educator seeking support with online tech or a parents seeking support for their child with reading, you have landed in the right place! I am a former teacher turned online reading tutor. I have learned ways to support learners using technology and creating digital learning spaces using Google Classroom and Google Meet! Your child can meet me in the same spot for each of our lessons! I HELP 40 families by limiting the amount of time they pull their hair out over their child not being able to READ and WRITE! AND, I help 166 educators understand the tech they can use to make tutoring online EASY!
The Year in Review! This year has been a year of growth for me professionally as well as for my students! Let's chat about it! For my students: Most of my students were published in a poetry anthology earlier this year. This was inspired by a review of poetry during our spring assessment review. I wanted it to be fun, and sometimes just reading poetry is not as exciting for those boring slides that we can read with old poems on them. We dove in and learned about rhyming, poetry patterns, and...
Have You Discovered The Tutoring with Sheryl Podcast? Yes, it is a REAL thing! I began a podcast about 5 or 6 years ago as I was learning new strategies to use in my classroom with my students. It was always a goal of mine to get the kids to learn new technologies that they could use later in life. As I was learning more about Google apps, I began my journey preparing for the Google for Educators Certification. One of the things you had to understand was how to create a blog and at that time,...
1st Semester is Almost Over! We are closing in on the end of the first semester of school! Within a month or so, the transition to the second semester will begin. 1st Semester Report Card Students have had their parent teacher conferences, parents may have learned that their child is in need of additional supports either through a Student Assistance Team process, a formal 504 Plan, or even an IEP. Sometimes parents worry that this is a bad thing for their child. It is not a bad thing! Those...