High school and college
General and AP Chemistry
Topics include stoichiometry, bonding, equilibrium, acids and bases, and more.
Chemistry and Biology Tutoring
For high school and college students, including college organic chemistry and biochemistry.
One-on-one, fully online over Zoom.
Organic chemistry and biochemistry at the college level are where I do my best work.
Subjects
College
Organic Chemistry
Topics include mechanisms, stereochemistry, reactions, and more, taught as a system you can reason through.
High school and college
Biochemistry
Topics include structure and function, enzymes and kinetics, metabolism, and more.
High school and college
Biology and AP Biology
Topics include cells, genetics, physiology, neuroscience, and more.
The approach
The same approach as Spark Learning, for focused tutoring.
Curiosity first
We start with the question you actually have, not chapter one. The stuck point is the way in.
Competency, not hours
We stay on a skill until you can do it without me, then move on. Your session page keeps track of what you can now do.
How it works
Step 1
Book a time
Pick a time that works for you. Sessions run on Zoom, in your own time zone.
Step 2
Meet on Zoom
We work through your actual homework and the problems your professor writes.
Step 3
Get your session page
Within a day you get a private page: a clean summary, the recording, and matched videos. Practice sets and flash cards follow as the course builds.
Built for focused tutoring
Every student gets their own site, built by hand as we go. These are snips from a current organic chemistry student's site, with their name and private links greyed out.
Their own site
A private, password-protected site with their name on it. Everything we do lives here.
A summary after every session
What we worked on, cleaned up and grouped so it reads like notes worth keeping.
The recording and matched videos
The Zoom recording to rewatch, plus short videos picked for that session's topics.
Practice sets written for their course
Ten questions covering the sessions since the last set, pitched at their professor's level.
Worked solutions, drawn out
Every structure is drawn in skeletal form, with the curved arrows that get you there.
Flash cards for the reactions they are learning
Starting material and reagents on the front. Flip for the product and the one-line reason.
Ways to work together
Single session
One hour on the topic that is stuck. Good before a quiz, or to find out whether we work well together.
Standing weekly slot
The same time each week for the length of the course. This is how most of my students work with me.
Exam sprint
Three or four sessions in the two weeks before a midterm or final, built around the material on the test.
Book a session
Tell me the course, where you are in it, and when your next exam is. I reply within a day with rates and a first available time.
Questions
- What time zone are you in?
- Pacific. I work with students on both coasts and schedule in your time zone.
- Are sessions recorded?
- Yes, so you can rewatch. The recording lives on your private session page and nowhere else.
- I am under 18. Can I book?
- A parent or guardian books the first session and gets my contact information. After that, you and I work directly.
- What should I bring?
- Your notes, the problem set or exam you are working toward, and the questions you could not answer. The more real the material, the better the session.
Working with a school or district instead? See consulting.