Please help us welcome three new tutors, who are bringing their wealth of knowledge and experience to our expert team. Linda Jarrett, Randi Rentz and Alicia Sussman have worked for decades in schools and private tutoring.
Linda Jarrett, M.Ed.
Linda has been teaching and coaching Executive Functions for over 20 years. Understanding a student’s learning profile and appropriately sharing that information with the student allows them to begin to understand who they are as learners. Knowing their challenges, whether that be anxiety, ADHD, learning or social, and their strengths, students are taught the most beneficial strategies and tools needed to be their best selves. This knowledge allows them to appropriately advocate for themselves, which is an important goal.
For the past 16 years Linda has been Center School’s Guidance Counselor teaching developmental guidance lessons on Mindfulness, Brain Plasticity, Grit and Growth Mindset while demystifying students so they can work toward their potential.
Linda has a B.S.Ed. in Elementary and Special Education and a M.Ed. in School Guidance Counseling. She is trained in Mindful Schools curriculum and has taken various workshops to enhance her knowledge of Mindfulness that is passed onto students. Linda has taken courses in Responsive Classroom and has shared this during teacher workshops. She has thoroughly enjoyed teaching and coaching students from 4th grade through college.
Outside of teaching, counseling and tutoring, her latest endeavor is combining Executive Functions with decluttering and downsizing, which is tailored to young adults and adults: Executive Functions meets (De)Clutter.
Randi Rentz, M.Ed.
Randi Rentz is a special educator who has worked in the public school setting in Pennsylvania since 1993. She graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.S. and received her Master’s degree in Special Education from the Johns Hopkins University with an emphasis in the area of Autism.
She specializes in working with individuals of all ages, covering the life span, particularly those with the added challenges of Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Executive Functioning deficits, Processing Disorders, Emotional Support, and Learning Support in the areas of Reading, Writing and Math, In addition, Randi is a certified Wilson instructor, She isvery experienced at developing, implementing and evaluating IEPs with related service providers, administrators, advocates, lawyers, doctors, paraprofessionals, psychologists, and parents.
As an Autistic Support Teacher and Learning Specialist, she created a researched–based Social Skills and Executive Functioning curriculum with program components including communication, behavior, and language and sensory strategies. The heart of her work is illuminating the often elusive and intangible world of Social Thinking, and developing practical strategies that can be easily used by parents, educators and service providers, across different environments She has also implemented, designed, and facilitated behavior management programs, academic interventions (all individualized), and has been trained in research-based reading and intervention programs which give her the ability to coach according to her clients’ capabilities.
Alicia Sussman, M.Ed.
Alicia Sussman serves as the Math Department Chair as well as the Math Learning Specialist at Kohelet Yeshiva High School. She holds an M.Ed. in secondary math education from St. Joseph’s University and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Delaware. At Kohelet, Ms. Sussman teaches all levels of math and provides additional support in mathematics to learners who are struggling. Ms. Sussman previously taught middle and high school students at the Crefeld School for 10 years, where she additionally served as the Head of the Department of Mathematics. She tutors all levels of mathematics, as well as for the ACT.