Catherine Pina-McPartland has more than 10 years of experience in teaching, tutoring, and mentoring students. She has worked with people of all ages in traditional and non-traditional classrooms on-line. She believes that schools and classrooms should be safe and caring communities for learning where students are free to speak their minds, make mistakes, and allowed to grow. Lifelong learning is important to Catherine; she is always seeking to improve her own teaching and the experiences of her students while receiving input from colleagues and the community. Catherine has a master’s degree in education with a certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)/Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). She also holds two provisional teachers licenses in health, family and consumer science, and instructional technology.
