“Within a span of only months we’ve seen remarkable growth in our two children. The individualized tailored attention they’ve received has been truly transformative. Debra has an innate ability to quickly identify each child’s unique strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles, and customize her approach accordingly. This personalized instruction has allowed our children to thrive in ways that simply weren’t possible in their traditional classrooms.”
The student is the teacher.
My primary job as a teacher is to model presence.
Students always let me know what they need.
My presence activates the student’s awareness of her or his own unique abilities, potential, challenges, and obstacles.
This principle holds true for all ages, whatever the subject.
Empowering another in this way is exciting, especially one who may not have previously believed in him or herself.
“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.”
Kahil Gibran, from The Prophet (On Children)