About Joy

Hi, I'm Joy! I'm friendly, fun, and joyful (it's my name!), and love sharing my curiosity and love of learning by asking creative questions and encouraging kids' innate inquisitive nature. I have taught kindergarten, first grade, and second grade (2022-26), and specialize in reading (phonics, decoding, comprehension, prosody--oral reading) and math (number sense, critical thinking, logical reasoning, problem solving, arithmetic operations). Learning is cultivated best in a safe relational context, and focused one on one time provides opportunities for growing a garden of "aha moments" where neural networks are connected and strengthened, and experiential comprehension results in long term takeaways that can be successfully transferred and applied to other scenarios. You can get impersonal information on YouTube; you can get uniquely differentiated and personalized impartation from me. Stay curious!