“Working and connecting with Ellen is a constant pleasure. We are thankful for all the sincere attention she gives to all our questions, concerns, and anything else that comes up. We are particularly grateful for how she helped handle the transition to pandemic-time learning, especially the project classes and book clubs. Xavier thrived during this time, even more than we could have hoped for. He is a confident reader now and progressing really well with writing independently.”
–Renee and Josh, parents of 10-year-old
“Ellen Orr is an intelligent, highly-motivated young lady with great work ethic. She has a healthy respect for young people and a genuine interest in promoting education. In nearly fifty years of teaching, I have learned not to thoughtlessly give recommendations, so the fact that I readily agreed to write this is a statement of my respect for Ellen’s ability and character.”
–Pat Wagy, fourth-grade teacher
“Our children's confidence and interest in school has soared. One child now picks up books to read on his own when before he never did, and the other spends his free time on expanding his short story that was introduced in one of the projects. This to us is the clearest evidence of passionate and effective teaching.”
–Anna, mom of 7-year-old and 10-year-old
“I'm a dude who took this poetry class during the summer after 5th grade and thought it was great! Ms. Ellen taught us a lot and shared a few great videos about forms of poetry and how it can be perceived and stuff like that. I especially enjoyed the poetry writing. We also had a fun last day where we dressed up and shared all of our poetry.”
–Isaac, 11