One-on-one coaching and small group courses for young writers and thinkers between the ages of twelve and eighteen — designed around the student in front of us, not the curriculum behind them.
We work with young people who are curious, independent-minded, and often frustrated by instruction that wasn’t built for how they think. Sometimes this is because conventional school hasn’t given them what they need, or because they want something more rigorous, personal, or simply more theirs. What they share is a readiness to do real intellectual and creative work, and a need for a teacher who takes that seriously.
This work is about helping young writers find and trust their own voice and their own modes of critical analysis and creative practice — the particular way they see, think, and put language together. The work here is building something durable: a sense of what they actually want to say, and the craft to say it.
Past courses have been tailored to the specific student or students enrolled — their ages, interests, learning profiles, and goals. No two iterations of a course are quite the same. Courses have been offered primarily to homeschool communities. Topics have included:
Course design draws on Rebekah’s expertise in neurodiversity-affirming instruction and multimodal approaches — meaning these courses are genuinely built for the range of minds that show up, including students with ADHD, dyslexia, and other learning profiles that standard curricula weren’t designed for.
Alongside courses, Rebekah works one-on-one with young writers on a range of projects: developing a critical or creative writing practice, building academic skills, preparing college application essays, or simply finding their voice as a writer after years of instruction that told them they didn’t have one. This work is available in-person in the San Francisco Bay Area and online.
Both Rebekah and Saraleah have spent years teaching first-year college students, and that experience gives them a particular fluency with the transition from secondary school to higher education — what it demands intellectually, what it assumes, and where students most commonly struggle. For families thinking about college preparation not just as an application process but as a genuine readiness question, this is work we are well positioned to support. We can help young writers arrive at college not only with a strong application essay behind them, but with a writing and thinking practice they can actually use once they get there.
Every engagement begins with a conversation — with the student, and when it’s helpful, with parents or guardians — about what the student needs, what hasn’t worked before, and what success might look like. Rebekah designs the work from there.
All engagements begin with a free consultation.
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