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Eve Chosak, MFA
As a neurodivergent academic coach and tutor, I relate to the struggles many of my students face. I welcome the opportunity to help them realize that with a few key tools, they can achieve much more than they thought possible. I help each learner through the hardest tasks so they ace their studies and have time for fun.
My specialty is coaching students who don’t otherwise thrive in school. I have helped the math-averse become confident students with an “A” average, I have aided students who think they can’t write papers learn to compose with confidence, and I have coached the organizationally challenged to track assignments, get their work handed in on time, and see their grades go up dramatically with little additional effort. Students with writers block are able to craft beautiful high school and college application essays that highlight their true passions and gifts, and bolster their application. Students who struggle on tests learn how to improve their scores without needing to work harder. Like a detective, I identify where there are gaps in a student's academic experience, and close those gaps so the student has what they need to excel. I also discover where each student is naturally brilliant, and use what they know and care about as a launching pad to guide them to new understanding. I stay with each learner through the hardest parts of a challenge, listening to what they say, as well as to what they are not saying. I notice when they get frustrated, and I extend compassion, praise effort, and appreciate what is valuable about their perspective. |
"I just really appreciate how much you saw me and understood me as a person. You were able to bring out my best essay writing so that the colleges could see me too." - Tallulah, Mills College 
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“You have an ability to understand my son's thinking process and be flexible with the way his brain works. You were able to fill in the gaps with systems he needed to put into place to be successful. Prior to your coaching, my son struggled.” - Kyle, Parent.
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What I Do
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I have taught for 20+ years, tutored for 15 years, and have a background in educational theory and practice, as well as a passion for cognitive neuroscience. I create customized learning experiences for diverse learners. I help neurodivergent learners overcome barriers to understanding, and achieve beyond what they thought possible. I take pride in seeing that a learner has everything necessary to transfer learning into the classroom and beyond, by participating fully in the teams of educators, therapists, and parents who care about the success of that student.
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Clients
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I have provided academic coaching and tutoring to students attending the following
schools: Acalanes High School, Lafayette, CA Addison Elementary School, Palo Alto, CA Alameda High School, Alameda, CA Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton, CA Bentley School, Lafayette, CA Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA Bishop O’Dowd High School, Oakland, CA Brandeis School of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata, CA City Arts and Leadership Academy, San Francisco, CA College of Marin, Kentfield, CA Corpus Christie School, Piedmont, CA Elon University, Elon, NC Encinal Junior/Senior High School, Alameda, CA Escuela Bilingüe Internacional, Oakland, CA Frank C. Havens Elementary School, Piedmont, CA Fusion Academy, Walnut Creek, CA Hamilton College, Clinton, NY Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Head-Royce School, Oakland, CA Hillcrest Elementary School, Oakland, CA Hilldale School, Daly City, CA Iroquois High School, Elma, NY Iroquois Intermediate/Middle School, Elma, NY Lick-Wilmerding High School, San Francisco, CA Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD The Marin School, San Rafael, CA Maybeck High School, Berkeley, CA Miramonte High School, Orinda, CA Nazareth Academy, La Grange Park, IL The Nueva School, Hillsborough, CA Oakland School for the Arts, Oakland, CA Oakland Technical High School, Oakland, CA Orinda Academy, Orinda, CA Orion Academy, Moraga, CA Park Day School, Oakland, CA Petaluma High School, Petaluma, CA Piedmont High School, Piedmont, CA Piedmont Middle School, Piedmont, CA Pioneer High School, Ann Arbor, MI Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, San Francisco, CA Saint John's University, Queens, NY Saint Louis Priory School, St. Louis, MS Saint Theresa School, Oakland, CA San Francisco Friends School, San Francisco, CA Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Tilden Preparatory School, Albany/Walnut Creek, CA University of California, Davis, CA University of California, Merced, CA University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO University of Idaho, Moscow, ID University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO Willard Middle School, Berkeley, CA Virtual coaching has made it possible to provide academic coaching, tutoring, and executive function coaching to students and adults with ADD, ADHD, autism, executive function struggles and neurodivergence in the following geographical areas: Alameda County, California Arlington County, Virginia Bergen County, New Jersey Boone County, Indiana Broomfield County, Colorado Broward County, Florida Bucks County, Pennsylvania Calvert County, Maryland Charles County, Maryland Chester County, Pennsylvania Clark County, Nevada Collin County, Texas Contra Costa County, California Cook County, Illinois Dallas County, Iowa Dallas County, Texas Delaware County, Ohio District of Columbia Douglas County, Colorado Elbert County, Colorado Fauquier County, Virginia Fairfax County, Virginia Fairfield County, Connecticut Falls Church, Virginia Fayette County, Georgia Forsyth County, Georgia Hamilton County, Indiana Honolulu County, Hawaii Howard County, Maryland Hunterdon County, New Jersey Johnson County, Kansas Kendall County, Illinois King County, Washington Los Alamos County, New Mexico Los Angeles County, California Marin County, California Maricopa County, Arizona Maui County, Hawaii Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Miami-Dade County, Florida Middlesex County, Massachusetts Middlesex County, New Jersey Monmouth County, New Jersey Montgomery County, Maryland Morris County, New Jersey Nantucket County, Massachusetts Nassau County, New York New Castle County, Delaware New York County, New York New Port County, Rhode Island Norfolk County, Massachusetts North Slope County, Alaska Oakland County, Michigan Oldham County, Kentucky Orange County, California Pitkin County, Colorado Plymouth County, Massachusetts Prince William County, Virginia Putnam County, New York Rockingham County, New Hampshire Rockland County, New York Rockwall County, Texas Salt Lake County, Utah San Francisco County, California San Mateo County, California Santa Clara County, California Santa Cruz County, California Scott County, Minnesota Somerset County, New Jersey Sonoma County, California Stafford County, Virginia Suffolk County, Massachusetts Suffolk County, New York Summit County, Utah Sussex County, New Jersey Teton County, Wyoming Westchester County, New York Will County, Illinois Williams County, North Dakota Williamson County, Tennessee |
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