Sara

Sara received her M.S.Ed. at Bank Street College of Education in Teaching Literacy in a Clinical Setting. She completed her supervised fieldwork at Brooklyn New School in Cobble Hill and the School for Children at Bank Street in Manhattan where she designed and implemented literacy interventions for struggling learners in the elementary grades. As a clinical teacher with Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, Sara taught reading, writing, and comprehension skills to children from six-years-old through high school age. In these settings, Sara developed her expertise of various literacy programs, while learning to tailor her instruction to the interests and strengths of each student. Sara then joined the practice at Read and Write NYC before subsequently establishing her own practice at Read and Write Bklyn. Sara enjoys working with children who have dyslexia-like learning challenges, executive functioning difficulties, and ADD. Some of her students have complex learning profiles, while others need just a little boost to achieve their literacy goals. 

Sara’s dedication to teaching literacy is tied to her family. Both her daughter and sister were diagnosed with dyslexia and benefited greatly from the specialized teaching of reading and literacy specialists. Sara’s first-hand knowledge about the challenges children experience when their learning style does not match the expectations at school, along with her extensive knowledge about learning differences, gives her a special insight when working with children and families. She understands that very smart people can doubt their intelligence, and she knows the positive impact that specialized teaching has on a child’s learning and confidence. 

Sara lives in Brooklyn with her two cats, DJ and Jake. Her daughter, Grace, just finished her first year of college where she is studying philosophy and computer science.