About Me
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I grew up in Pennsylvania with three siblings. Luckily, with a good size yard, we were able to run around, play in the woods and streams, and play a variety of sports, largely because there was not much else to do in this town!
In school, I was interested in art, woodworking, spelling, and sports. As a phonetically accurate, somewhat slow reader, I spent more time drawing maps, pictures, writing captions and headlines for book reports from encyclopedia articles, than I did actually reading at the library! However, my creations of colored graphs, maps, dioramas, and sculptures of topography, animals and biomes, led me to go deeper into the subjects I was illustrating, as well as, understand their text structures. By the time I went to college, I was interested in teaching, helping others, and finding strategies for making learning fun, understanding that everyone engaged differently. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from an art college in Philadelphia, I worked in a jewelry factory making animal pendants, I catered for a fancy French Philadelphia restaurant, and started teaching children at science and art museums, public schools and community organizations. My curiosity towards how we learn, led me to further my education with a Masters in Sculpture, an Educational Therapy Professional Certification (ET/P), CA teaching credentials, and a Special Education Masters Degree. . My enthusiasm for helping students who felt school was too challenging, guided me towards a private practice in educational therapy. So here I am! Teaching, testing, tutoring, and still making art! In a way, creating individualized learning plans is akin to creating art, and I love it all! |
Elizabeth Medrano, ET/P, MFA, MA
Certified Educational Therapist
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