Teaches online

Teaches Elementary, Middle School, High School, College

Age: 8+

Speaks German, Finnish

Teaching since 2005

Doctor of Education - College Music Teaching

About Katherine S.

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Doctor of Education Candidate at Columbia University Teachers College, Katherine has been a lead test prep teacher and tutor with national test leaders for over 10 years. She has tutored privately in subjects ranging from SAT, ACT, GRE, academic subjects and AP prep as well as organizational and executive function strategies for young students. Katherine serves as a vocal performance instructor at Columbia University Teachers College for graduate students. Katherine has expert knowledge of undergraduate admissions, graduate admissions, and career counseling. Katherine worked in Higher Education directly at the prestigious Juilliard School for years, most recently in the capacity of the Assistant Director of the Alan D. Marks Center for Career Services and Entrepreneurship where she assisted performing artists with admission to graduate programs as well as the transition to their professional careers. Whether teaching music or tutoring test prep, Katherine fosters an environment of positive rapport and crafts curriculum and designs individualized lesson plans unique to each student to enable him or her to achieve whatever level of depth and proficiency he or she seeks. Katherine's students have been admitted to Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, MIT, BYU, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Vassar, and Tufts among other top tier universities. Her students have consistently achieved improvements on scores and academic grades throughout her tutoring career. A fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation and The Hertz Traveling Fellowship of UC Berkley, Katherine has performed professionally around the world under conductors including Esa-Pekka Salonen and Kent Nagano. Her voice can be heard as a featured soloist on an internationally released recording of the choral work of Dmitri Bortniansky from Naxos Music. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and she was a National Merit Finalist in the state of California.

Instructor details

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Location:

Teaches Online

Teaching Hours

Sunday

5 AM-6 AM

Times are shown in your local timezone (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Pricing

30 minutes

$40

45 minutes

$60

60 minutes

$80

90 minutes

$110

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7 Reviews

Dan Martin

Online

Always helps me with everything I have!

Posted Mar 7, 2018

Cheryl

Student's home

Katherine tutored both of my teenage daughters for the SAT. Her sage advice, helpful tips, and thorough knowledge of the material guided my daughters’ preparation. They each took the SAT in the middle of their junior year and, thanks to Kate, felt ready and confident. They far surpassed their PSAT scores earning a 1530 and 1560. Although my daughters have very different personalities and learning styles, Kate identified their individual strengths and personalized their tutoring sessions. My older daughter also employed Katherine’s strategies on her English Regents exam and received a 99. We are so thankful for Katherine’s patient, thoughtful, and supportive preparation and thrilled with our daughters’ results.

Posted Jan 27, 2018

Karen

Student's home

Katherine was amazing! She was focused and stayed on task with my daughter. Working with Katherine for even just 10 lessons gave my daughter the confidence, techniques, and information for her to raise her SAT score by 270 points! She is an ultimate professional arriving on time and prepared to start right away. Assignments were doable with my daughters schedule and communication with me was fantastic. I would more than highly recommend her for tutoring if any age!

Posted Jan 23, 2018

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Experience

College Test Prep and Academic Tutor

Dec, 2017 - Present

Smart Alec

Katherine will be tutoring students one on one in SAT, SAT Subject, ACT, GRE test prep as well as a number of academic subjects. She focuses on empowering students to develop organization and study skills to support them beyond the test or given subject.

Applied Lesson Instructor - Voice

Jan, 2016 - Present

Teachers College Columbia University

• Design and implement a course syllabus for one on one lessons for elective students including weekly lesson plans and student assessment and semester grading. • Collaborate with students on repertoire selection appropriate to voice type, level, and pace of progress. • Evaluate student progress and adjust lessons according to the needs of the student. • Integrate lessons in musicianship, theory and history into the applied lesson setting. • Meet with department head once per semester to discuss best practices and departmental measures for effective teaching.

Assistant Director - Alan D Marks Center for Career Services and Entrepreneurship

Jan, 2015 - Mar, 2017

The Juilliard School

Assist with the development of the Career Services and Entrepreneurship center budgeting the additional financial resources awarded to the department for performing arts career skills curriculum • Provide advisement to students and alumni on topics such as auditioning, interviewing, career planning and strategies, and preparation of promotional materials including cover letters, promotional kits, bios, résumés, and repertoire lists • Program, coordinate, and attend weekly, seasonal, and monthly performances related to current Juilliard concert series. Including coaching students on programming, public speaking, contracting with selected soloists and ensembles.

Lead SAT and Academic Tutor

Oct, 2011 - Dec, 2012

Varsity Tutors

Develop lesson plans based on individual student needs and goals to achieve improvement in classroom grades and standardized testing. Tutor students one on one in SAT, SAT Subject, ACT, Academic subject, Organization and Study skills. Focus on increasing not just specific knowledge, but general study skills and creative problem solving for success in all fields of study. Moved into private practice exclusively from this company.

Lead Test Prep Tutor

Sep, 2009 - Jul, 2010

PrepPoint

Tutored students one on one in SAT, SAT Subject, ACT, Academic subject, Organization and Study skills. Moved on after leaving the California Bay Area

Class Room SAT teacher and ACT SAT test prep tutor

Apr, 2005 - Mar, 2007

Kaplan, Inc.

Honed my skills as a tutor through this excellent company. Taught SAT test prep per the Kaplan curriculum. Tutored students one on one for SAT test preparation. Proctored practice exams. Administered essay seminars.

Private Test Prep Tutor and College Admissions Consultant

Jan, 2005 - Present

Self

I was a National Merit Finalist, and scored 1490 on my own SAT, and 1510 on my GRE (out of years when the scores were based on the 1600 scale for each). I have coached my students to significant point increases. Now a doctoral student at an Ivy League institution, I am researching even further how students learn effectively in one on one settings.

Education

Bachelor of Arts

Aug, 1998 - May, 2002

University of California Berkeley

Doctor of Education - College Music Teaching

Aug, 2015

Teachers College Columbia University

Master of Music

Aug, 2002 - May, 2004

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Awards

Fellow

Sep, 2005

American Scandinavian Foundation

Bell T. Richie Young Artist Award

Aug, 2009

Fresno Musical Club

Affiliations

College Music Society, The

Aug, 2013

The College Music Society promotes music teaching and learning, musical creativity and expression, research and dialogue, and diversity and interdisciplinary interaction. A consortium of college, conservatory, university, and independent musicians and scholars interested in all disciplines of music, the Society provides leadership and serves as an agent of change by addressing concerns facing music in higher education.

National Organization of Women

Aug, 2016

As the grassroots arm of the women’s movement, the National Organization for Women is dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights, and is the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States. NOW has hundreds of chapters and hundreds of thousands of members and activists in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since our founding in 1966, NOW’s purpose is to take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life.