meet the director
ALANA CARTY
M.Ed.
Alana is passionate about helping others and completely dedicated to supporting her client’s needs.
After Alana began her work with mentor Dr. Fran Bowman, a fellow in Orton-Gillingham Academy, she became fully immersed into the world of dyslexia and well-trained in the structured, multisensory teaching approach. For over a decade now, Alana has worked one on one with students who have dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADHD, ASD, anxiety, depression, and social/emotional issues. She has experience with executive functioning coaching, academic support, and reading & writing remediation. Alana has a Masters in Literacy Education, accociate level training in Orton Gillingham, and training in Visualizing & Verbalizing, Singapore Math, and Writing Revolution.
Through warmth, compassion, and an extensive and diverse educational background, she helps families to identify and work through barriers so students can thrive in their academic settings.
Over 15 years ago, Alana began her career in education as a Montessori classroom teacher. This unique instructional experience paved the way for new and exciting opportunities. As she continued to explore the diverse learning styles of individual children through private tutoring, she found that many students were not getting their needs met in the classroom. More specifically, many students were not getting the proper reading and writing instruction needed to build a solid foundation.
what we do
Our goal is to help families to identify and work through barriers so students can thrive in their academic settings. We genuinely care about helping each student achieve individual goals and reach full potential. Our tutors are well trained to meet the needs of diverse learners and completely dedicated to the educational field.
We focus on the following areas...
- rb
Thank you for the invaluable gift you gave to my daughter (and me). She is a diligent, hard working, organized, independent student now. The tools she learned from you, Alana, has allowed her to blossom. She is an extremely special human being, who can now be confident and proud of herself. You are forever imprinted on my heart.
- westchester parent
Alana uses a thoughtful and intuitive approach to helping others. She is so honest, generous with her time and truly cares about the well-being of her clients. She was able to find us the right tutor and get us through some really difficult times. Now, our daughter is thriving and we have her to thank!
- armonk | parent
My daughter was frustrated and struggling to learn to read despite being very intelligent and working hard. Her school wasn’t doing enough to recognize or address her reading difficulty. Thanks to Alana, she is now reading at grade level and loving reading! Alana used a very engaging, fun and evidence-based methodology to teach her. My daughter looked forward to every tutoring session, and she progressed rapidly. We are so grateful to Alana for helping us during this critical time in her academic and emotional development.
- emma | student