Making waves in modern education
One-on-one and small-group instruction for students ages 4 and up across Sacramento City, San Juan and Elk Grove Unified and Vision Charter Schools — taught by a credentialed school counselor and certified reading tutor. Not just learning to read: mastering it.
Tutoring & instruction
Every format starts the same way — finding where your student actually is, then building from there. Social and emotional skills are woven through all of it, not treated as a separate add-on.
Most requested
One on one sessions are designed to enhance academic development unique to your student. Working with students to improve assessments and test scores, building confidence in skill and an overall sense of accomplishment, forming a baseline for a real love of learning.
Peer interaction
Small groups are very similar to the one on one session format and goals with the added bonus of peer interaction, this provides an added element in the learning process that includes interpersonal relationship skill building.
Social & emotional skills
Social and emotional skills are a underlying dynamic to everything we do and is a key feature in how sessions are conducted and what is expected in both small group and one on one sessions. As a School Counselor with a PPS Credential this has a strong elemental value in not only building rapport but also in every interaction I have with the students I work with.
“I hold a positive regard with ALL students that I work with regardless of their abilities, disabilities, strengths, and deficiencies. My mission is to help children improve on their concrete skills.”
Karen Lester · Educator & Owner
Service area
Boots on the ground experience with education since 2005, working in education since 2017 — which means knowing how each district and charter school assesses, refers and documents, not just how to teach a lesson.
Our story · About the educator
Karen Lester is a Certified Tutor with The Learn Reading Program as well as a School Counselor with a PPS Credential. She graduated with a M.A. in Education from Concordia University, as well as Bachelors Degree in Anthropology from California State University of Stanislaus; beyond that has completed a MSL Degree from McGeorge School of Law. Her specialties include working with parents and their concerns with their child. Specifically students that have struggled in the classroom. Karen takes a classical approach to education with a modern spin.
Other certificates that include teaching Anger Management for ALL ages and abilities and working on certifications for Parenting Classes and HeartMATH. Karen is committed to working with students and their families; assisting parents regarding their child’s educational path.
Strive to Thrive
Helping the whole child, helps the whole family. Reading Nemo will provide weekly lessons to help students, ages 4 and up. The program promotes growth, independence, and improve quality of life for program participants. As a result of not just learning to read, but mastering the art of grammar and reading, students can improve in behavior as well as other areas of academics. Likewise, it helps student develop a better sense of self-awareness and self-esteem.
Getting started
Tell Karen your student’s age, grade and what’s been hard. Two minutes on the phone or 30 seconds on the form.
Find out where your student actually is — not where a grade level says they should be. That reading becomes the starting point.
One-on-one, small group, or a mix — scheduled around your week, mornings or afternoons.
Tell us about your student and Karen will follow up to schedule a consultation. Prefer to talk now? Call 916-591-4500.
