Elli Hierman holds a Master’s in Elementary Education and has over 20 years of experience teaching in both public and private school settings, as well as individual tutoring. Most of her classroom experience has been with 1st through 4th grade students, and she has been especially inspired by Waldorf pedagogy, which integrates movement, music, and the arts with academic learning.  Elli is a reading specialist and her passion is to teach literacy, encompassing reading, comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, handwriting, sentence structure, and essay writing. She loves children’s literature and considers reading aloud to children one of her greatest joys.