Kimberly is a graduate of Bowling Green State University with her Bachelors of Arts in Communication and her Master of Arts in English. She is a candidate for a PhD in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication at the University of Minnesota.
Kimberly began tutoring shortly after graduating with her bachelors. She has served as an institutional tutor at a college tutoring center and as a private tutor for students from pre-k to adult. She currently tutors students that attend Connections Academy, Kenston schools, Maple Heights schools, Ohio Virtual Academy, Solon Schools, Mayfield Schools, and University School.
Beyond tutoring, Kimberly has more than a decade of college teaching experience teaching at numerous colleges and universities including BGSU, University of Minnesota and Case Western Reserve University. She currently has an adjunct appointment at Indiana Wesleyan University.
Kimberly’s story
Kimberly started out believing she would teach in the upper elementary or middle school classroom. She went to college and completed a series of math classes for elementary school teachers. But some of her required courses in the communication department, she ended up declaring her major in Communications instead. Then in her senior year she discovered the field of technical communication and her new found interest lead her back to teaching.
By twenty-two and a fresh college graduate, she began instructing college students through the maze of writing genres and research writing. Kimberly discovered that teaching, especially writing, is often done more through mentorship that requires modeling, critique and evaluation.
Kimberly’s expertise is in teaching research, reading comprehension, and writing techniques, these skills are needed across the curriculum. While she has taught at numerous universities, working in the classroom requires that she teach concepts based on the needs of the majority. After working with many non-traditional students and with first generation college students, she began to see many students who would benefit from individual instruction. After a decade primarily in the college classroom, Kimberly decided to work with children and adults in the community to help build the skills that would need to be successful in the classroom and in the workplace.