I want to help your student!
Your student CAN write.
Writing can be... strenuous. Toe-curling. Painful. Formidable. Grueling. Arduous. Fatiguing. Just plain old HARD.
Writing is like juggling, only instead of a bunch of little balls, you're juggling vocabulary and grammar and style and spelling and organization and topic sentences and quotations marks and a hundred other little things that make teachers very red-pen-happy.
It's tough. But we can make it easier. Here, you'll find downloadable materials, links to live courses, and the newest brainchild... Building Better Writers Academy. My goal with this is to become your main support for writing at all levels by providing clear instruction with detailed instructor feedback.
Building Better Writers academy
What is Building Better Writers Academy?
Building Better Writers is your resource for supporting your student's writing journey. I've taught these exact same classes on Outschool and other platforms for years to thousands of students with 1000+ five-star reviews.
Now, I'm bringing these courses directly to you in video format. That doesn't mean "watch a video and write an essay." It means that I'm available all the time to help. Send me every paragraph of an essay. Turn in your worksheets on sentences. Email me your stories. For each, I send detailed feedback with positive and helpful critiques.
other ways building better writers can help you:
Classes (live and asynchronous)
Classes (live and asynchronous)
Classes (live and asynchronous)
Whether you're looking for a live online class or an asynchronous (flex class), I offer a full lineup of courses ranging from basic grammar to poetry to creative writing to research essays.
Writing materials
Classes (live and asynchronous)
Classes (live and asynchronous)
Need help teaching a student to write paragraphs? How about essays? Get what you need in our online store. Formats include printable and Google drive materials.
Vocabulary classes & support
Classes (live and asynchronous)
Vocabulary classes & support
The use of precise language is a huge skill in advancing written and oral communication. Therefore, I offer downloadable vocabulary lessons and worksheets as well as live and asynchronous vocabulary classes.
About Building Better Writers
Who am I?
I'm a mom. Of five! I've homeschooled all my kids up until high school (three to go!), so I'm intimately familiar with many of the homeschool writing curriculums out there. I'm also familiar with how it feels when a curriculum doesn't fit, or when you need something a little different, or when it feels like you're just not getting through.
My classes on Outschool
In 2019, I searched Outschool for poetry classes for my kids. I found very few and I thought, "Hey, I could probably teach a class on... I dunno... Walt Whitman!" And voila, here I am today, having taught not just poetry but reading, writing, and vocabulary to more than 4,000 students from 93 countries. It's pretty awesome, and I love what I do.
How do I know what I'm doing?
The truth is that I never intended to be a teacher. Okay, I never even WANTED to be a teacher. In fact, I'm still deciding what I want to be when I grow up.
However, I hold a BA in Journalism and Mass Communications from UNC-Chapel Hill (and also a degree in French literature, which is slightly less useful, and I spent many years both writing for various newspapers, magazines, and websites.