Tutor Palace Of History And Writing

One-on-One tutoring services in all things history and social studies, research and writing. As a veteran history and humanities teacher, with over 30 years of experience, I have helped my own students. As a tutor, I have helpd all students through in-school Writing Labs in schools in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, D.C. and Delaware. As an independent tutor, I established a policy of pro-rating the first hour of tutoring while also accepting referred pro bono cases. I love teaching, have an irreverent sense of humour, believe in the power of the written and spoken word, and know that history is far more than a record of facts and chronology. As Malcolm X has said, "Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research."

I have been awarded with a fellowships to Poland and Israel studying the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance; a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Fellowship to study in Moscow and Vladimir, Russia; two NEH Summer Seminar awards to study the literature and theatre of the Holocaust; a teacher's fellowship to the Civil War Institute; a Gilder Lehrman seminar fellowship to Oxford University on "The Age of Lincoln"; a summer seminar grant to study Alexis de Toqueville's Democracy in America at St. John's College in Annapolis. I was the recipent of the Belz Lipman award as the High School Teacher of the Year in Holocaust Education from the Tennessee Holocaust Commission.

I have worked as a house painter, film projectionist, landscaper, musician, and crew leader for the United States Forest Service (USFS). While these experiences may not directly impact my work as a tutor, they have helped shape my approach. While I believe in the accountability and initiative of the individual, I also embrace a mantra from my experiences working with young people in the USFS Youth Conservation Corps (YCC): "All of us are stronger than one of us; all of us are smarter than one of us."