It’s the last month of school and time for our Students of the Month! For the month of May, we have Rylie and Davey! Rylie is someone who is very self-driven: she often sets goals for herself and does her best to accomplish them. She has set goals on how fast to do her sound…
Michelle has been told over and over again that she “is a light to others.” She has always loved learning, teaching and children. She is mother of five, grandmother to 2, and has worked for a combination of 29 years as owner of Heart to Heart Preschool and Child Care Service owner, Teacher/Educator, Certified Reading Specialist, Reading Tutor, and business owner of an award winning business that has been rated number one in her area for years. Michelle, previously a Joy School teacher and homeschool mother, believes in the importance of education and knows that reading plays a vital role in learning and in life! She created the JoyFully Read!™ Reading Program 17 years ago to assist her as a reading tutor in her tutoring business. JoyFully Read!™ has been used in home schools, online homeschools, private schools, a charter school, and personal as well as classroom tutoring for students of all ages. Michelle also helps parents, schools, teachers and tutors to become JRCP certified reading teachers through her program and welcomes and assists them in starting their own successful tutoring businesses. She loves enabling parents (especially moms) to be blessed with the ability to have very rewarding work from their own homes, when needed/desired, like she did.
Mr. C earned his Bachelor’s in Behavioral Science with an emphasis on Family Studies from Utah Valley University. He loves teaching reading skills! He is married to Michelle the founder of the JoyFully Read!™ Program. He loves learning about people and families. He enjoys reading a variety of subjects, watching mysteries, and watching sports with his sons.
Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Religious Education degree with a concentration in church music from Davis College. She has taught in Sunday School, youth clubs, children’s choirs, women’s classes, and adult choirs over the past 30 years. As a homeschooling mother of six, she taught her children from kindergarten through high school, as well as co-op classes for homeschoolers in various subjects.
Rebecca spent her growing-up years with her nose buried in one book after another. Her children have absorbed this love of reading through lots of family read-aloud time and their own reading adventures. Rebecca believes reading is one of the supreme joys in life, and everyone should have the opportunity to experience it.
Robin earned her Bachelor’s in Communications from Brigham Young University.
She has 7 years experience as a Reading Focus Group Para-educator for Lake Elsinore Unified School District. She worked in advertising for 13 years but left that career to raise four sons. When they started attending school she loved volunteering in the classroom, which lead to a new career opportunity working with students mostly reading in small groups.
She loves working with children and all people in various capacities including Cub Scouts, Sunday School, as well as in the public school setting. She loves tutoring and loves to see those sparks of enlightenment that set a fire of a lifetime of learning through reading!
Liza earned her Bachelor’s in Sociology from Utah State University. She loves working with children and teaching others that if you can read, you can become anything. Liza loves to spend her time trying different foods, enjoying the outdoors, reading Science Fiction, and being with her growing family.
Eliza has worked for JoyFully Read! for 4 years. She has worked in 3 different centers in Provo and has enjoyed all of them. Eliza is currently working on her last semester to earn her Bachelors degree in English at Utah Valley University. She enjoys getting to know each of her students and helping them find joy and confidence in a task that tends to start out as difficult. In Pre-school JoyFully Read! was the reading program that she used to learn to read herself and she has enjoyed being apart of the JoyFully Read! team for the past 4 years. Eliza enjoys being outdoors and finding new hobbies that enhance the joy in her life.
Emily earned her Bachelor’s in English Creative Writing and Editing at UVU. She served an LDS mission in Lubbock, Texas. She loves writing novels, her cat Guy, music, baking, designing some graphics, and reading. Being a tutor at JoyFully Read!™ is such a joy to her because of the amazing children she works with and she believes that books are a gateway to imagination and adventures.
Meagan got her bachelor’s degree in family life and human development. She was the head teacher at a Montessori preschool. She has always loved working with children from a young age. Her husband is currently in Residency at UC Davis. Meagan has a 9 month old little boy and has loved becoming a mother.
Miss Whitney is a BYU English grad turned sugar wizard, she divides her time between teaching kiddos to read and creating edible masterpieces. Juggling four tiny taste testers while baking up a storm.
Rachael is an extrovert who loves finding ways to have fun with the people who matter most to her. She enjoys creative writing, being a Mom, and going down internet rabbit holes about historical clothing.
Elizabeth is a former classroom teacher with a Master’s of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language. Previously licensed in K-12 ESL, Middle Grades Language Arts, and Middle Grades Math, most of Elizabeth’s professional life has involved working with at-risk youth populations in summer camps, after school programs, and then in the ESL classroom. She left the classroom to take care of her 3 babies but her passion for spreading literacy continued, and now that the youngest of those babies is in middle school and the oldest in college, she is ready to get back to teaching! An avid reader herself, Elizabeth believes that reading is the key to the world (both real and imaginary!) and everyone should have access to it.