Treehouse

I am Kevin Whitaker, a writer and writing tutor with more than 30 years of professional writing and educational experience. As an educator, I have tutored reading and writing, been a guest teacher for students in Kindergarten through 8th grade, and developed content and programming for immersive educational attractions.

Enrichment

I provide individualized instruction to meet each student’s growing needs and expectations. There are many reasons for enhancing writing skills and research habits: helping students stay on task in the classroom, investigating methods to get an edge on writing-based challenges in academia, or simply wanting assistance finding their distinctive voice.

One-On-One

All Treehouse Enrichment one-on-one tutoring is conducted online using the Zoom meeting platform. This easy-to-use system allows your student to have all the tools they need no matter where they choose to work. For you, this eliminates the need to rush about getting to and from tutoring.

More Information:

• A description of an average tutoring session.
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• Information on the writing with which students may need enrichment.
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Why

A Message to Students:
Why do you need tutoring in writing? Most likely because the adults in your life (primarily parents and teachers) want what is honestly best for you. They want you to succeed in school and in life and to have the skills and the confidence to tackle the ever-growing challenges that life is sending your way.

You, on the other hand, probably wish your adults would just cut you some slack. So far as you are concerned, your writing is, well, good enough, mostly. You write the best you can but you don’t know how to start. You don’t like all the arbitrary rules you have to follow for different kinds of writing. You don’t need to rewrite your work because you got it all down the first time. Tutoring? More work, just what you don’t need. But please, know this: I am on your side. My goal is to help you to satisfy the adults’ worries while making writing tasks easier, better, and more efficient while not making your life a slow death by tutoring.

Sorry, no magic writing hacks, but introductions to the common, simple skills, habits, and tools that will work for you. Our goal together: getting the words the adults want to see onto the pages where they want to see them.

You may find you actually like writing. Stranger things have happened.