About

Diane Jerome, Ed.D.

“Let me show you how your young – child, adolescent or adult – could achieve his or her full potential.”

• Since 1998, Dr. Jerome has provided reading and writing lessons to specific types of students. These include exceptional, gifted or struggling students, as well as, visual-spatial learners (including English language learners).
• As a middle school teacher, she taught reading, writing, math, religion and social studies.
• As a post-secondary instructor, Dr. Jerome taught Second Language Acquisition to student-teachers.
• As a project manager for an educational testing company, she worked closely with standardized test item writers. Using this experience, she shares with students the design of standardized tests. With this shared insight, students learn the nature of the test.
• On 3/31/15, Dr. Diane Jerome passed a background check through First Advantage.

AWE lessons

Essentially, each client receives assignments or activities uniquely designed for his or her personal academic goals. Besides goals, lessons target academic and developmental levels. To explain how this works, Dr. Jerome shares her own personal perspective on lessons with students, “As I work with each student, my behavior models proper study skills. Students find this behavior contagious. Also, students pick up on the fact that I am a life-long learner.”

Moreover, each exceptional and gifted student learns through enrichment. For instance, the essay scroll on the home page exemplifies one of many enrichment activities completed through AWE lessons. Project-based activities align to Common Core Standards.

Besides enrichment, struggling students learn through simplified learning activities. Lessons appear simplified so that students learn with confidence. Visual-spatial learners use whole to part activities to visualize the schema. This required schema moves them on to conceptualize or memorize content. Trust becomes an important part of each lesson with each student. In this way, every student discovers his or her strengths. Once trust becomes part of the lesson, learning comes easier.

Besides content material, AWE students prepare for standardized tests. We step through specific test-taking strategies. As they work through the tests, we uncover weaknesses. In this way, lessons are adjusted to fill in gaps of knowledge. After students master the required material, they take timed practice tests.

Middle school students are coached to prepare them for the ISEE and STAAR exams.

High school students are coached on the reading and writing sections of high-stakes tests. These include the ACT, PSAT and SAT.

“Being goal-driven, I hold high standards for all my students.”

University of Houston – Summa Cum Laude

• Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Curriculum and Instruction, 2010
• Master of Education (M.Ed.), Historical, Social and Cultural Foundations in Education, 1998
• Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Human Development and Family Studies, 1996            

“I possess a genuine love for learning.”                   

Teacher of the Year Nominee: 2010 Finalist West Houston Excellence Award Post-Secondary              

 Diane Jerome, Ed.D

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