My favorite subject to help students with is writing, though I enjoy teaching all of the Humanities and counseling students and parents on the college search process. I primarily work with adolescents, and have lots of experience with students with disabilities… For students struggling with writing, I take the pressure off in brainstorming sessions and drafting sessions by saying that no idea is “wrong,” and repeating the mantra that, “every first draft is perfect because the only thing a first draft needs to do is exist.” In today’s high-pressure world where students feel like everything they do is judged, I make sure that I will always be the last person to make that harsh judgement. I encourage and push students when they aren’t putting forth every effort to succeed, but I’m also always there to pick them up if a particular lesson is knocking them down. Every writing assignment becomes manageable with broken down into small, easily digestible steps and every history lesson becomes less about dates and more about people when paired with a historical fiction short story or a Crash Course video.