About 

Julia Saunders (they/she) studied at UCLA where they earned a B.A. in Theater Arts and graduated with honors. She has been working as a K-12 educator in New York and California for the past seven years.

 

They started out formally as as a one-to-one high school & middle school teacher at Fusion Academy teaching humanities and theatre classes, although she had a long history leading up to this of working with kids as a camp counselor and a proud babysitter. She was given a unique opportunity to help teach and launch a new program at Fusion called COGx, which utilized the latest research in cognitive science to target and improve the cognitive skills associated with learning through an intensive 60-120 hour interventionist program. They eventually became the campus manager for this program and, through that role, became a specialist in the science of learning. She has during and since utilized this wealth of knowledge wearing a variety of hats.

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Julia works individually with students from ages 5-20 (Truly! It’s wild!) in most subjects, including math and essay writing, specializing in working with students with learning differences and coaching Executive Functioning skills. They also teach high school SAT classes, facilitate and teach reading and math tutoring groups at a local elementary school, write conceptual math enrichment curriculum for 10+ schools across the tri-state area, and design art and theater workshops that target executive functioning skill building. They worked as a consultant and lead coach in the launch of Bespoke Education's Executive Functioning Coaching program. 

 

A veritable jack-of-all-trades in education, she above all believes that the key to successful to being a successful educator is to be compassionate and intuitive in approach with each individual and group, as no two students are the same.