About Betsy

Despite graduating with honors from NDSU with an Engineering degree, Betsy has been traveling the path of an educator since she fell in love with one-on-one tutoring in High School.  

"After needing desperate help in Chinese as a ninth grader, I realized how important a tutor can be to help students develop the tools and confidence they need to take charge of their learning in a more meaningful way.  To me, tutoring turns a sea of concepts into a source of tangible success and pride as each problem builds and forms the base to push into more complicated topics."  

Armed with a love of the learning journey and a desire to give others peace and confidence about the things they think they are bad at, Betsy has been tutoring on a volunteer and professional level since 2014.  In high school, she volunteered with elementary and middle schoolers for math standardized test prep help and homework help in other subjects, and she also took on a few paid jobs helping with GRE math, Algebra 2, middle school math, and Chemistry.  In college, she tutored 1:1 for the NDSU Disability Center and focused on learning to make tests and schooling more accessible for people with learning differences.  After graduation in 2021, she has been virtually tutoring math and standardized tests - and enjoying it enough that she quit her engineering job to teach math to traditionally underserved students at a local high school.  Standardized tests are her specialty, as it gives the space needed to fill in all of the gaps that have hampered growth since middle school.  The weight of the gaps in learning is slowly lifted through hard work, and the confidence it leaves in its place is unmatched.  There is pride in the work it takes to get there.