Helping young adults realize their academic goals by embracing their strengths and tackling their challenges.
Helping young adults realize their academic goals by embracing their strengths and tackling their challenges.
About Me
Amy Siegel MA, MLS
I love working with students one-on-one because individualized attention can yield transformative results. I work with and admire "all kinds of minds." I am committed to helping students discover their strengths, values, and interests and to integrate such understandings into all the work we do. I coach secondary and college students among whom are those who identify as twice-exceptional. I teach advanced Orton-based reading strategies, structured grammar and style programs, critical reading and writing programs, and study/executive function skills.
I have worked as a university teacher of writing and literature, a middle and high school English teacher, a high school learning specialist, and a private academic and executive function coach. I have advanced degrees in English with a speciality "Theories of Teaching English" and also in Young Adult Librarianship. I am a graduate of the National Writing Program and I have extensive training in learning differences taught by leaders in the fields of Orton-Gillingham, Learning Differences, and Executive Function. I am a former board member of the DC International Dyslexia Association and a member of the Learning Disabilities Association. I am certified by Jodi Sleeper-Triplett's program in ADD Coaching.
"If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way he learns."
-Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Estrada