My family is in Cape Cod for the summer and we needed a tutor to work with our son, who has a complex set of learning and social-emotional issues. We needed someone with experience, skill, enthusiasm, warmth and a great sense of humor. We have been delighted with Dr. Bridget’s approach with our son, and also how she collaborates with our son’s tutors back home in D.C. Bridget is firm but fair, warm,
consistent, engaging, and most of all – she has addressed our son’s thinking about who is responsible for his learning. She sets reachable standards for our son each session, and in a word, I would describe her
services as priceless!

- Michele J., Washington, D.C.

As the Middle Years Programme Language and Literature teacher for grades 5 through 8 at Provincetown Schools, an International Baccalaureate World School, I was blessed to work with Dr. Bridget Cahill over four years as she tutored one of the students in my class from 5th through 8th grade.

Bridget’s positive energy and enthusiasm for teaching and learning is palpable and contagious. Over time I watched a shy, anxious, hesitant, even, at times, reluctant and avoidant student blossom into a skilled reader, passionate writer, and risk-taking academic leader who stood on the auditorium stage and orally presented her IB Community Project on the rights of Transgendered persons to the entire school community of students, faculty, administrators, parents, mentors, and community members.

Bridget knows how to affirm the natural strengths and passions of the student, and builds from there with the wide range of tools and strategies she has as a seasoned, but always learning expert teacher. Bridget helps students set high, but attainable goals, provides adequate supports along the way, and eventually has students reach success, independence, and confidence.

I am always impressed with the efficiency with which Bridget works. She is  knowledgeable about the demands of Common Core, and was a quick study in grasping the expectations of the International Baccalaureate. She comes prepared to tutoring sessions, finds spaces to meet that best meets the needs of  her students  and finds ways (Skype) to maintain continuity when illness, weather, or distance is a challenge. She bolstered the learning sessions with appropriate snacks. Her pacing was admirable; she accomplishes much in short bursts of time. Also, Bridget is always aware of the best new educational technologies to match her student’s learning needs. She is always flexible and open to better strategies that will help her student be successful.

Bridget “gets it” that individual students require individual solutions! Bridget always helps students to stay organized and on track with their actual expectations in the school curriculum. Bridget works respectfully,  in full partnership, with faculty at the school. As a member of the IEP teams, Bridget is able to delicately offer possibilities of new ways to work with students that might be successful, without ruffling egos of full-time faculty. She is an exceptionally skilled advocate for her student.

Finally, I have deep appreciation for Bridget’s generosity as a colleague. Many tutors never interact with their student’s classroom teachers. I very much feel as if Bridget has been my co-teacher, even mentor, who generously shares new ideas, websites, curriculum materials, and opportunities to recognize our student’s success beyond the school. Her work has been transformative for her students and for me.

- Amy Rokicki, Provincetown Schools

My 8th grade daughter attends an International Baccalaureate School. For the past four years, Dr.
Bridget Cahill has been an integral part of my daughter’s learning. My daughter and Bridget share
an extra special bond. As my daughter likes to say, “She is so perky, mom!” Bridget has incredible patience in the face of adolescent ups and downs, frustration, impatience, and anger. She is able to draw my daughter back from other places, and help her focus on the task at hand. Bridget seeks new ways to inspire my 13-year old daughter, and to enhance academic
instruction.
During a school break a few winters back, I contracted with Bridget to join us as we traveled to Mexico, to ensure that my daughter would stay “connected” with her learning goals while she was away from the day-to- day structure of the classroom environment. My daughter benefitted from having Bridget there as her daily tutor, and she shared an experience with Bridget in a more “relaxed” atmosphere during her down time. It was a fun time for us all!
It is a joy to work with Bridget in deepening my daughter’s ability to understand, to stay curious,
and to learn.

Thank you, Dr. Bridget!!

 - J.K., parent, Provincetown, MA

“The work that Dr. Bridget Cahill does with kids is magic, but she is not a magician: she is a compassionate, savvy educator with years of experience that yield serious results. We have two boys with very different learning styles and challenges, and Dr. Bridget has been as successful with our math-challenged child as she has been with our child with math gifts.

She is just as fine a teacher of adults, helping my partner and I navigate the often choppy territory of schools both public and private. Most important, Bridget has helped us all love school more, which has been the ultimate gift of our work with her."

- Melanie B.