25 Years of Seeing Brilliance
Where Others Saw Only Struggle
It began in a Montessori classroom -- with children who wouldn't approach the language section.
Young kids who would gravitate toward every other material in the room but carefully avoid the one area where words lived. I could feel it -- something kept them away. Not defiance. Not disinterest. Something deeper.
Fear. Shame. The quiet belief that "I can't do this."
Even with Montessori's beautiful kinesthetic materials, some children still couldn't break through. And I realized: it wasn't just about the reading, writing, or spelling. It was about the heavy emotions wrapped around those tasks.
When you're not good at something -- especially something everyone else seems to do easily -- it hurts. That hurt turns into frustration. That frustration turns into avoidance. And before you know it, a bright, curious child has decided they're "not good at reading" or worse, "not smart."
I refused to let that be the end of their story.
So I trained in Orton-Gillingham and Structured Word Inquiry -- and kept learning, kept refining, kept asking: What does this child actually need?
And what I discovered changed everything:
When you combine proven methods like Orton-Gillingham with approaches that teach how English actually works -- and remove the emotional barriers -- reading transforms.
Suddenly, students who avoided reading for years are picking up books. Children who believed they were "bad at school" start asking for harder challenges. Parents who felt helpless watch their child's entire relationship with learning shift.
That's when I founded Reading Resolved -- not just to teach reading and spelling, but to address the whole child. The skill. The emotion. The self-belief.
As our students grew, so did their needs. They needed help navigating school systems that didn't understand them. They needed study strategies designed for how they actually learn. They needed someone to equip them with the tools to build confidence, resilience, and unshakeable self-belief.
So we expanded our support -- from dyslexia intervention to academic tutoring to life coaching -- because children need more than reading help. They need a partner who stays.
Because when one child discovers their brilliance, entire families transform.
