Joan Weinberg has been helping elementary & middle school students with learning disabilities through testing,therapy & tutoring for nearly 20 years. She’s a board-certified Educational Therapist, currently working with the Ross Valley School District by day and with GGTC after school. She specializes in everything from the Perceptual Enrichment Program (P.E.P.) to reading & study skills, motivating all kinds of student to learn. Hailing from the Bronx, she’s a life-long Mets fan, SCUBA diver and volunteer baby-cuddler at UCSF.

In school, Celeste always competed with the top math students and took special pleasure in getting better test scores than all the boys. She channels this mildly neurotic competitive spirit into her students, giving them the drive they need to do their best (secretly hoping they beat my students!). She’s passionate about her subjects, and even more about her students. I thoroughly enjoy working alongside her. She makes everyone around her better by association.

Celeste is our “Do something great!” advocate. She’s always coming up with great ways to get involved in our community. So, in the spirit of Halloween, we’re hosting a stop in the Goblin Parade. Keep an eye OUT for us! We’ll have games, prizes, tricks & treats in the alley outside the center. Hope you can stop by and bring friends for us to meet!

Be sure to come by sometime and say hello to our perplexed SAT student. (Celeste’s idea too!) He’s always studying!

See you at the center…this Halloween!

Daniel Ezell

We’ve had a great time with Film Night in the Park this summer. Thanks to Tom Boss, director, we’ve been able to add a dose of our personality to several family films. Our final Film Night Trivia game is this Saturday at 8:00 just before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. Hope to see you there!

Homeschoolers, we have two workshops available for you this fall: 3rd-5th grade Science & Math and 6th-9th grade Thinking Workshop. As always, we’d love to work with you individually or in small groups to reach your unique goals.

SAT students, we offer free practice tests every Saturday morning and group review on Tuesday evenings. Students can opt for an ACT, SSAT or ASVAB practice test instead. Individual test review is available any time.

It’s been so nice to reconnect with you & your students; we can’t wait to spend the semester with them!

If you happen to be in town this weekend, come out Friday evening to Creek Park in San Anselmo for Film Night in the Park! They are showing an 80s classic: The Breakfast Club!  We’ll be quizzing the audience just before the show on their expertise on the plot & characters and giving away 3 free hours of tutoring to the winner!

See you at the center…or at the park!

Lil’ Monet Art Camp

Students entering 1st-5th grade
limited to 12 students per week
July 11-14
July 18-21
9-12:30 PM
$180
Open Studio Art Show
July 21, 6-7:00 PM

Jean Vadal Smith, Guest instructor

Jeannie Vadal Smith

Jean Vadal Smith has been painting since she was 10 years old. Growing up in suburban Michigan amongst 8 brothers and sisters, her box of crayons and simple set of watercolors were her creative escape.

Now after more than 40 years of learning, creating and perfecting her craft, she takes great joy helping young children find their own creative sparks! She has studied under many great teachers and been showcased in galleries and private collections across the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Costa Rica. She has been teaching children and adult classes in southern California for more than twenty years. After recently moving to Marin County, Jean currently keeps busy hosting an online gallery storefront at Etsy.com and teaching local children’s classes through Mill Valley Parks and Recreation and Le Petit Jardin of San Anselmo.

Erin Noble, Elementary Specialist Reading, Writing, Math

We’ve been looking for someone who specializes in early reading skills and enjoys working with students as much as we do.  Erin Noble is a perfect match!  We’re excited about the ideas, experience & expertise she brings to our team.

With summer approaching, many students who struggle with reading, writing or math with have the opportunity to learn to love it!  Once they get hooked, they take off!  Let Erin inspire your child through individual tutoring this summer.

Erin Noble is a multiple subject K-12 credentialed teacher who has twelve years of teaching experience mostly in the Tiburon school district. She has taught Kindergarten, 1st, 4th and 5th grades. Erin grew up in Marin and Sonoma counties and graduated from Sir Francis Dake High School. She loves to camp, run and bake birthday cakes for her two little boys.

We can’t wait to introduce you to our brilliant & enthusiastic colleague Laura Cooper. She has accepted our invitation to partner with us at the tutoring center, specializing in high school & college science & math through AP Calculus (we haven’t been able to offer you that before!).

We are now offering ourselves as a resource to the thriving home-school community here in Marin and we will soon be offering math, technology and writing workshops to home-schoolers in the mornings.

We are in the final planning stages for a technology camp this summer. We’ll take the lid off of this exciting opportunity soon, but as a preview: this camp is a vehicle for 5th – 9th graders to acquire computer skills while creating a short film.

Give us an update on how your student is doing! We would love to hear!

Daniel & Celeste Ezell
Golden Gate Tutoring Center

Laura Cooper

Math through AP Calculus
Science through AP Chemistry
Study Skills
SAT

Laura, a Marin County native and Redwood High graduate, holds a degree in Bio-Chemistry from San Francisco State University. She has taught chemistry and math workshops at Tamalpais High, College of Marin and San Francisco State, and holds a Single Subject Teaching Credential in Chemistry. She most enjoys working individually with middle- and high school students to develop organizational and logical-thinking skills. In her spare time, Laura loves eccentric fiction, hiking, biking and baking blueberry pies.

70s Photo Booth, San Anselmo Art & Wine Festival 2010

This summer’s San Anselmo Art & Wine Festival was a blast! We got our groove on with the “Sounds of the 70s” in our free photo booth. Thanks to all the brave souls who made headbands, dressed in costume & posed in our sweet cardboard ride. And thanks so much to photographer Stephanie Pool, Candice Roper’s Fashion & Sewing School and Amber Smith, Le Petit Jardin French Immersion Programs for donating your time to making it awesome!  Pictured (from left to right) Virginia Boyle-Valle, Celeste Ezell, Patrick Ezell, Amber Smith, Daniel Ezell & Jocelyn Ezell