Tailored-to-you life coaching and academic tutoring for neurodivergent adults and teens, executive function skill-building, and an advocate who gets it. Amanda helps clients of all ages embrace and work with (rather than against) their neurotype, mental health, and disabilities while acknowledging and navigating systemic challenges as a team. With Amanda, clients practice tapping into their inner strengths, community support, self-compassion, metacognition, and self-advocacy in order to feel more empowered in and outside of the classroom and workplace.
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Born and raised in South Sacramento, Amanda (they/she) holds degrees from UC Berkeley in Art and American Studies with a focus on Race, Culture and Identity in Urban* Schools. In their 12 years as an educator, they have taught art and high school English, tutored one-on-one, mentored and supervised other tutors, directed an afterschool program, and worked with local programs that prioritize social justice, community involvement, and youth who have been marginalized by white supremacy.
Amanda is a down-to-earth and compassionate advocate who works side by side with students of all ages within an anti-capitalist and anti-racist framework to help them feel empowered as critical thinkers and active learners in and outside of the classroom and workplace.
Together, they and their clients tackle the emotional, cognitive and social aspects of learning. In addition to content areas, they work to address motivation, focus, time management, follow-through, and other challenges -- while confronting the problematic history of executive functioning, interwoven with capitalism, white supremacy, and ableism. They help their clients build long-term habits, study skills that actually work, and a personalized plan tailored to each client's needs. Amanda builds meaningful connections with their clients, who often return to work with them year after year!
When they're not tutoring, Amanda works as Director of Instructional Support for a local tutoring business. In their spare time, they like to walk the Bay, scavenge for cool street finds, get lost in new video game worlds, read YA fiction, and make art (you can also find them at East Bay Slimes, where they make and sell multi-sensory toys for stimming and stress relief!)
Amanda is strongly committed to Covid safety and universal high-quality masking as an act of solidarity with and care for us all -- and particularly immunocompromised and marginalized communities. Click here to learn how to talk to your loved ones about practicing harm reduction and community care during the ongoing pandemic.
Amanda specializes in the following:
Executive functioning and study skills through an anti-capitalist and anti-racist lens
Navigating learning differences, mental health and your unique neurotype
Supporting neurodivergent (ADHD, Autistic, etc) adults and teens
College applications and personal statements
Life skills / post-high school planning
Grades 6-12 Reading/Writing/English/Humanities (including AP)
Test-taking skills and test anxiety
*Note: "Urban schools" is a coded way of naming schools whose populations are predominantly Black and Brown. The term skates around the history of school segregation in the U.S., around the process of white flight that followed Brown v. Board of Education which left what became BI&POC school districts without funding, and around racist zoning practices - old and new. (@subversive.thread)
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Born and raised in South Sacramento, Amanda (they/she) holds degrees from UC Berkeley in Art and American Studies with a focus on Race, Culture and Identity in Urban* Schools. In their 12 years as an educator, they have taught art and high school English, tutored one-on-one, mentored and supervised other tutors, directed an afterschool program, and worked with local programs that prioritize social justice, community involvement, and youth who have been marginalized by white supremacy.
Amanda is a down-to-earth and compassionate advocate who works side by side with students of all ages within an anti-capitalist and anti-racist framework to help them feel empowered as critical thinkers and active learners in and outside of the classroom and workplace.
Together, they and their clients tackle the emotional, cognitive and social aspects of learning. In addition to content areas, they work to address motivation, focus, time management, follow-through, and other challenges -- while confronting the problematic history of executive functioning, interwoven with capitalism, white supremacy, and ableism. They help their clients build long-term habits, study skills that actually work, and a personalized plan tailored to each client's needs. Amanda builds meaningful connections with their clients, who often return to work with them year after year!
When they're not tutoring, Amanda works as Director of Instructional Support for a local tutoring business. In their spare time, they like to walk the Bay, scavenge for cool street finds, get lost in new video game worlds, read YA fiction, and make art (you can also find them at East Bay Slimes, where they make and sell multi-sensory toys for stimming and stress relief!)
Amanda is strongly committed to Covid safety and universal high-quality masking as an act of solidarity with and care for us all -- and particularly immunocompromised and marginalized communities. Click here to learn how to talk to your loved ones about practicing harm reduction and community care during the ongoing pandemic.
Amanda specializes in the following:
Executive functioning and study skills through an anti-capitalist and anti-racist lens
Navigating learning differences, mental health and your unique neurotype
Supporting neurodivergent (ADHD, Autistic, etc) adults and teens
College applications and personal statements
Life skills / post-high school planning
Grades 6-12 Reading/Writing/English/Humanities (including AP)
Test-taking skills and test anxiety
*Note: "Urban schools" is a coded way of naming schools whose populations are predominantly Black and Brown. The term skates around the history of school segregation in the U.S., around the process of white flight that followed Brown v. Board of Education which left what became BI&POC school districts without funding, and around racist zoning practices - old and new. (@subversive.thread)
Amanda Burke Tutoring
510-306-4328 | Berkeley, CA | [email protected]