Well-published writer and high school English/Special Education teacher for 27 years wants to tutor students in all subjects. I also help adults with writing projects.

I have known Valerie Kaufman since we first worked together back in 1986. She is a great and compassionate educator.

Valerie taught English for 27 years in New York City and Westchester. Her students won writing contests and excelled on the English Regents. The templates she devised for essay writing were used throughout the school.

In addition to helping students, Valerie also helps adults with writing, including resumes, cover letters, college applications, essay writing, business writing, and creative writing. She is also a well-published writer herself. Her film reviews appear regularly in Cineaste, a globally recognized magazine on the art and politics of film. She has also been published in The New York Daily News, Publishers Weekly, The Riverdale Press, Our Town, The West Side Spirit, Chelsea News, and The Sun.

Valerie Kaufman possesses everything that one would want in an outstanding teacher. She is an extraordinarily warm, personable, helpful person who truly cares deeply for and about the people in her life, including her students, and all of humanity. She also retains the sort of boundless curiosity one finds in children but that many adults have lost. She taught English for 27 years in Westchester and New York City schools and created templates for essay writing that her colleagues in those schools found very useful. Her students got excellent results in English Regents exams, and some of them won writing contests. A voracious reader and passionate aficionado of film, Valerie has written regularly for Cineaste, a highly regarded magazine on the art and politics of film. Her writing has also appeared in The Riverdale Press, the New York Daily News, The Sun, and several other publications. Many of our friends and their children have benefited from her help with all sorts of writing, ranging from resumes and cover letters to creative writing and college applications. In sum, Valerie is an extraordinarily skilled, exemplary teacher.

I know Valerie to be an exceptionally skilled and patient teacher, adept at finding which methods work best for students with different learning styles and bringing out the best in each one.

I recommend her wholeheartedly! She is an exemplar of everything one could hope for in a teacher.