I have a burning passion for teaching with empathy. So often, students come to me stating they are dumb, bad at school, and have low confidence. I make it my mission to highlight small wins along the way to slowly help each child realize their potential. A student learns to believe in themselves as they experience success regularly.

In addition to being your child’s cheerleader, I am VERY focused on data. I teach with strategies supported and proven to be effective by experts in education. I use frequent progress monitoring to ensure each child is growing at an adequate rate and is trending towards the common goal we created together.

I loosely follow the Department of Instruction’s Essential Standards. I also focus heavily on the Five Components of reading, often referred to as the Science of reading.

Phonics

Phonemic Awareness

Vocabulary

Fluency

Reading Comprehension

I use Orton Gillingham techniques and strategies in the majority of my sessions to help students understand concepts deeply.

I offer all of my courses virtually or in person! Even a group can have some students in person and other students virtual!

During our initial consultation, I ask a series of questions and consult data from your child’s school to determine reasonable goals. I guarantee that progress is made by progress monitoring children every 4-6 sessions. If data is showing we are not making progress towards our goal, I will problem solve with you and put new interventions into our plan to ensure success. Research tells us that 95% of children can learn! I look for the method that will reach each child.

Outside of sessions, I also provide students with a Google Classroom full of practice, instructional examples, and posters for additional support.

I have been working in education for nearly a decade. Over the years, I have worked in public, private, and charter schools in Davidson, Guilford, Durham, and Johnston county.

An unexpected death in my family caused me to resign from teaching in August of 2019. I started tutoring a few hours a week in October of 2019 and quickly discovered working with children was soothing to my soul. My small business, then called Beeson Tutoring, quickly picked up speed. I began having to add students to a waitlist because there were not enough hours in the day!

This led me to seek additional training in small group tutoring, so I could work with more children per hour and not have to turn students away. Grouping students together has been a beautiful experience. In addition to academic skills, I am able to work on skills for speaking and listening as well as social and emotional learning in sessions.

When COVID-19 spread throughout the United States, I was pregnant with my now toddler. This caused me to completely move my business online. In order to ensure quality and growth for my students, I took a distance learning course which gave me the confidence and excitement to instruct students online during the peak of the pandemic and beyond.

I request payment in full at the first session of every month. I use PayPal business to send monthly invoices. Invoices are e-mailed by the 28th of each month for the following month. For example, September’s invoice will be emailed to you by August 28th.

I understand that life happens, and sometimes a scheduled session will be missed. In these situations, I ask that you please remove your time slot from the calendar. You are welcome to sign up for a make-up session any time that is labeled “open”.

If your child misses a group session, you can have a make-up session with other students in the same situation. Please keep in mind that group make-up sessions are not always with the same students as a regularly scheduled session. Alternatively, you can sign your child up for a private session, and I can send you an invoice for the difference in payment between a private and group session.

*Whenever possible, please keep make-up sessions in the same month as the missed session.

I am located in East Clayton off of Glen Laurel Ave.

Email is the best way to reach me: kasey@humblehiveacademy.com and my typical response time is within 24 hours. If you have not heard from me after 24 hours, please feel free to reach back out to me!