PERISCOPE TUTORING LLC

Carol grew up in Corvallis, Oregon.  She is the first generation in her family to attend college. With two shaky starts at Scripps College in Claremont, CA, she eventually ended up at the University of California at Santa Cruz where she earned a Bachelor's with Honors in American Studies.  From there, she was recruited to teach in South Central Los Angeles. This provided an opportunity to use Spanish language skills she had taken throughout her college career, as well as jump at starting life as a professional educator.  
       By mid-1992, Oregon was her home once again.  After a brief internship at a small newspaper, Carol went to work as a Project Coordinator for the "I Have a Dream" Foundation-OR. She worked with a group of 94 Woodlawn fourth-graders until their graduations from Jefferson, Grant, Roosevelt and Benson, all Portland, Oregon area high schools, among others, in 2001. These relationships were strengthened by lots of time spent on remedial and enrichment tutoring, college tours and service projects.        Since 2001, parenting and substitute teaching have been her jobs, until she took over Periscope in late 2015.  At Periscope, Carol tutors any subject up to the 8th grade level. Beyond that, writing, study skills and test taking are her areas of expertise, along with executive functioning techniques. She also teaches the reading, writing, and grammar portions of Periscope's test prep classes (ACT, SAT and GED) 
      Apart from reading and writing, Carol enjoys colláge, traveling, bargain hunting and food. Her long ago worldly experience includes waiting on tables, running a food cart, bicycle racing, and writing abstracts of college studies for a professional journal.