Hi! I'm Katie
An Oxford-educated English specialist, an Orton-Gillingham trained dyslexia and ADHD specialist, and a secondary school teacher with years of classroom experience, in particular with teens with ADHD and dyslexia.
But the credential that matters most to the parents and teens I work with? I'm also a neurodivergent parent of neurodivergent young adults.
I have sat exactly where you're sitting. I know what it feels like to love your child fiercely and still feel completely lost about how to help them.
I'm not here to tell you what you should be doing.
I'm here to walk beside you and help figure out what is right for your family.
My story
As an undiagnosed ADHDer at school - I excelled in subjects that mattered to me
and crashed in those that didn't.
I was lucky - I studied in a system that allowed some flexibility.
My story would be different if I were in school now.
Watching my children survive school rather than thrive in it made me a radical teacher.
Radical because I believe every child actually matters.
Not just the football stars, or the grade warriors, or the performers.
Every single one.
Radical because I believe every child CAN learn, can love learning.
Has something to add to society.
Radical because I know that nobody should, or needs to, fall through the cracks.
Whether or not they're 'difficult' or 'struggling' but quiet about it.
I left the school system - not because I didn't love teaching. I did. But because I hated the system.
So I started tutoring and supporting parents from outside of the system.
And five years on, I'm doing that still.
Because in my system, I'm not radical - I'm just normal.
And this is what pupils say about working with me:
'I felt a bit lost in English...now I actually understand what I'm doing." RP, year 10
"The learning is fun...it doesn't even feel like a lesson." RD, year 11
"I rediscovered that I actually like creative writing." KG, year 11
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