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Bearman Korth Tutoring is a sister/brother team of educators who provide educational therapy and structured tutoring services that are customized to your child's individual learning needs and educational goals. We foster a love for learning that serves as a foundation for developing confidence, self-esteem, inner motivation, and future achievement. Serving the San Francisco Peninsula and South Bay, we tutor students in reading, writing, and mathematics, along with supplying intervention and strategies for learning disabilities.

Our approach

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We establish a caring, supportive, and individualized learning experience for each child, utilizing research-based and structured teaching practices for targeted intervention and remediation. We help students understand the unique way they learn and guide them with customized, developmentally appropriate tools to foster their learning independence.

We also help parents recognize the nature and context of their child's learning patterns and strengths so that the parent can further assist their child through new insights and understandings.

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Building Confidence

Your child grows increasingly confident as they master content area skills. We guide your child to identify and understand context, and to recognize their own patterns of learning and self-understanding. This leads to confidence in learning which your child will rely on through the course of their lives.

Who we help

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We work with children from early childhood to high school years. Linda primarily focuses on younger children and those with significant learning disabilities, but also serves as a resource for all children we work with.

Rob works with Linda in providing mathematics tutoring and learning strategies for older students. He consults with Linda in helping to identify root learning issues and remediation strategies where a child may struggle with higher level mathematics concepts and strategies.

Linda Korth
Linda Korth, MA

Linda earned an MA in Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Special Education from San Francisco State University. Her education career spans over more than 30 years during which she has been a teacher, education/special education specialist, program administrator, and educational therapist. She has also served as a consultant and trainer of other educators and administrators in a variety of youth education environments.

Linda works one-on-one with students from preschool through junior high school in the areas of early language skill development, literacy/reading, writing, handwriting, and mathematics. She has experience working with students who have Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, ADHD, and other learning challenges.

She is trained in the Orton-Gillingham approach to structured literacy, Wilson Reading System®, Multisensory Math, Seeing My Time®, Art of Inspiring Students (supporting and strengthening study skills) and Handwriting Without Tears®. Linda uses a variety of developmentally appropriate curricula and individualized instruction strategies that also address time management, organizational skills, and other executive function skills to help students focus and achieve their fullest potential.

Linda's practice is based in Millbrae, California and serves San Mateo County. Her professional affiliations include AET, NCIDA and NCTM.

Rob Bearman
Rob Bearman, MA

Rob has a Master's degree in Education from Stanford University, and a BA in Astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught algebra full time at San Mateo High School as a student teacher while attending Stanford, and taught algebra and physics at Santa Cruz High School.

Rob consulted with IBM in the design of educational software in the 1980s and moved onto a career in software development at Microsoft and several start ups while raising two children with widely disparate academic and learning skills and approaches.

Rob provides mathematics tutoring and assistance to Linda while based in the South Bay and serving both Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.

Contact us

Our email: info@bearmankorthtutoring.com