Renaissance Women Tutoring was born out of a long history in the field of education. For me, this goes back to 1991 in a small private school outside of Cleveland. I was an elementary school teacher enjoying mummy-wrapping ceremonies, children’s novels, and erecting classroom wigwams. Still, I longed to discuss more challenging literature with more mature students and began spending my nights going back to school.

By 2000, I had my first graduate degree in Curriculum & Instruction, and so began my career as a high-school English teacher at an international boarding and day school in Northeast Ohio. There, I helped my students interpret difficult novels, hone their writing, as well as create an annual medieval feast and a lantern-lit legends tour of our “haunted” old campus as extensions of reading and writing projects. In the meantime, I spent my spare nights getting my second graduate degree, this time in English Literature. My education degree was just not enough, it seemed. I wanted to be able to read, interpret, and write felicitously, like an English professor.

In 2008, I moved to Colorado, where I was hired at an independent school to design their college-style literature courses, launch their Advanced Placement English Language program, and created special topics for Senior English. In subsequent years, I created a humanities program for their middle school, expanding my teaching range with United States history, human geography, filmmaking, and by establishing an annual Living History Day.

In 2014, I finally became an English professor, teaching literature and literary analysis as well as composition courses. One of my primary tasks was to teach rhetorically sound methods for the purpose of writing researched arguments about a timely problem that needs addressing. Between and after classes, I worked as a college writing tutor in every subject of the humanities, education, and the social sciences.

It was around this time that I also began writing and self-publishing literature classroom guides, as well as placing my creative nonfiction in literary magazines. Since then, I also co-wrote a monograph and a book chapter on film & philosophy, both placed with major academic presses.

Most importantly, I now use my experiences and work in the fields of education and the humanities to help students, one-by-one, reconnect with their love for learning and spark the renaissance of their academic potential.

Email me to set up consultation: Candace@RenaissanceWomenTutoring.com