Meet the Team
Each tutor is individually trained and certified so everyone we serve will have consistent results. They are spread out across the map, so find the one closest to you, or simply purchase a kit to use yourself!
Each tutor is individually trained and certified so everyone we serve will have consistent results. They are spread out across the map, so find the one closest to you, or simply purchase a kit to use yourself!
Owner, Certified Reading Specialist
Location: Provo, UT
Email : Michelle@joyfullyread.com
Call: (801) 851-0231
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.
Co-Owner, JRCP
Location: Provo, UT
Email: Frank@joyfullyread.com
Call: (801) 851-0231
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.
JoyFully Read!™ Center Owner
Location: Vestal, NY
Email: Rebecca@joyfullyread.com
Call: (607)358-0464
Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Religious Education (BRE) 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 25+ years. As a homeschooling mother of six, she has also taught co-op classes for homeschoolers in many subjects, as well as teaching her own children from kindergarten through high school.
Rebecca has loved to read since early childhood; her mother could always expect to find her buried in a book somewhere. Her children have inherited this love of reading through family read-aloud time and their own reading experiences. Rebecca believes reading is one of the supreme joys in life, and everyone should have the opportunity to experience it.
JoyFully Read! Center Owner
Location: Lake Elsinore, CA
Email: Robin@joyfullyread.com
Call: (951) 551-7016
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!
JoyFully Read!™ Center Owner
Location: Elk Ridge and Santaquin, UT
Email: Liza@joyfullyread.com
Call: (801) 995-8758
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.
JoyFully Read! Center Owner
Location: Provo, UT
Email: Eliza@Joyfullyread.com
Call: (801) 960-5290
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
JRCP Reading Tutor
Location: Mapleton, UT
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
JRCP Reading Tutor
Location: Northern CA
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.
Courtney
JRCP Reading Tutor
Location: Orem, UT
Courtney Parker was born and raised in Alberta, Canada. She has only one sibling–a twin brother. She has loved young children for as long as she can remember. Courtney worked with kids in an orphanage and children’s hospital in Romania, as well as in daycares and preschool programs in Canada. After serving a mission for her church in Tucson, AZ she attended Brigham Young University where she majored in Marriage and Family Studies and minored in nonprofit management. It was there that she met the love of her life. She and her husband have been married since 2011 and are the parents of 4 amazing children. She loves playing board games, writing, teaching marriage classes with her husband, doing any kind of homeschooling with her kids, and indulging in hot fudge sundaes. Courtney is so passionate about phonemic awareness and reading tutoring that she looks up beginner readers in her free time!