Category: SmartStart Educator Bios

Katelyn Thomas is a SmartStart Education math tutor working part-time at Excel Academy at Francis M Wood High School in Baltimore, Maryland. She is an experienced classroom teacher and special educator. In addition, she is currently working to complete the requirements necessary Read more

Chrystal Seawood is employed as a SmartStart Education ELA tutor for 10th graders. She joined SmartStart in October 2022, because she said she wanted to get back into the classroom on a part-time basis. “As an educator, who needed a Read more

Camilla Carr is a SmartStart Education ELA tutor working with 9th and 10th grade students at the Baltimore School for the Arts. She has been enjoying the experience and has been inspired by the talented teachers and students. “This is a wonderful Read more

Mark Prelli is a SmartStart virtual tutor who is currently placed in Fairfield Public Schools, located in Connecticut. He was hired in Spring, 2022 to help students with both math and science but said he has tutored nearly every subject Read more

Joseph McFadden has been with SmartStart Education since September. He currently works with 3rd and 4th grade students as a small group math interventionist with City Springs Elementary School in Baltimore, Maryland.                   McFadden holds a bachelor’s degree in political Read more

Haoran (Harry) Zhang has been with SmartStart Education since August 2022. He is employed as an 8th grade math intervention teacher for City Springs Elementary and Middle School located in Baltimore, Maryland. Recently, school administrators requested he teach an Algebra Read more

  Amanda Cedeno has worked for SmartStart Education for three years as an academic tutor at schools in New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut. During the course of her employment, she has helped students in a variety of grades, from elementary Read more