About Amy Richter

…In addition to technical and professional competence, Amy Richter brings to her work an open, creative approach that seeks to find unique, fun techniques to teach solid academic skills. She is perceptive, responsive, and able to empathize in a manner that is distinctive. Amy has an uncommon ability to create curricula solidly grounded in research, and appealing to students who struggle to learn using traditional methods and techniques…she is able to see beyond the surface to understand children and devise a fresh, creative plan to engage and teach. She not only enables them to feel successful, her work with them leads to measurable, solid academic gains.

-Karen Arnold, M.Ed, Ed.S., School Psychologist

After years of struggling with my own childhood schooling, I became a teacher at age 21. My introduction to teaching was through piano, chorus, playwriting, and improv theater, followed by almost two decades of being an academic classroom teacher and producing curriculum designs in math, language, history, writing, and performing arts for elementary and middle school. My intention is always to hear the voice of each child, even if what they are saying doesn’t fit my or anyone else’s preconceived notions.

“If a child says something is wrong - something is wrong.”

Kids know me for my unswerving devotion to their happiness and education, as well as games, fun, and laughter. Children have to go to school for 12 years; that is much too long to do something they dread. All of my teaching is based on research and evidence-based practices. There are new tools and solutions to age-old problems. My goal is to share this knowledge so that kids love learning, enjoy school, and continue their education on their own.