Joanna Kennedy is a learning specialist with 25 years of teaching experience in grades K–9. She serves as a tutor for children and adults with language-based learning differences and has taught in both public and independent schools, including Ashland Junior High School in Ashland, MA, The Advent Day School in Boston, the Apple Orchard School and Park School in Brookline, MA, and the College Readiness Program in East Harlem, NY. A graduate of Connecticut College with a B.A. in French, she has an M.A.T. from Harvard University and is certified for both elementary education and the teaching of reading. Trained as an Orton-Gillingham practitioner, she also holds certification from the Massachusetts General Hospital program of therapy for specific reading disabilities. Joanna has focused her teaching and writing on innovative ways of helping students understand the structure of the English language for increased skill in reading, spelling, and writing.