Sarah's lifelong passion for learning has been the foundation for her love of tutoring and teaching. Sarah believes that inspiring that passion in her students is one of the most important duties of a tutor and teacher and helps them become engaged, enthusiastic, and successful students and lifelong learners. Sarah teaches Executive Functioning Skills, Test Prep, Humanities, Language Arts, Foreign Languages, Creative Writing, and Art to students in grades K -12, college students, and adults. She teaches private full year, semester, and summer courses in Creative Writing, English, Italian, Latin, and Art for grades K - 12. See "Tutoring Subjects" for more details. Sarah also works as a curriculum consultant, editor, translator, writer, and artist.
Sarah was recently a maternity leave replacement and interim teacher at The Buckley School in New York City. She taught English and Latin to 7th and 8th graders for the first semester and K-3 Lower School Art in the second semester. She taught 6th, 7th, and 8th grade English using the hybrid model with students both in the classroom and on Zoom at Palm Beach Day Academy. Sarah was the Dean of Curriculum and Director of Cultural Programs at the Anacapa School in Santa Barbara, CA where she also taught Art, Italian, and Creative Writing. Sarah taught middle school English, History, and Latin at the Pierrepont School in Westport, CT. She taught high school Italian for ten years and developed the AP Italian Program for Brunswick School in Greenwich, CT. There she also taught high school Ceramics, Art Foundations, and Latin. Sarah specializes in figurative sculpture, ceramics, drawing, painting, and mixed media. She taught ESL in Italy at a private English school for adults and children and was a part-time adjunct lecturer at the University of Ferrara. She also taught ESL and studio art at The American School in Switzerland summer program where she was the art director and assistant for the musical productions. Sarah loves the performing arts and in particular, putting on student productions in English, Latin, or Italian. Sarah has also tutored Executive Functioning, Writing, Test Prep, English, History, Italian, and Latin in Manhattan and Fairfield County for over ten years.
Sarah Crawford is an alumna of Tufts University with a dual major in Italian Studies and English, Cum Laude. Sarah also completed significant coursework toward a BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She received a Masters of Arts in Italian Literature through Middlebury College and the University of Florence. She is passionate about the Renaissance period and wrote her MA thesis in Italian about Torquato Tasso and the chivalric epic poetry of Renaissance Ferrara. Sarah has completed Post-baccalaureate Latin and English courses at Columbia University and she is on track for her Masters of Arts in English at Lincoln College, Oxford, through Bread Loaf at Middlebury College.
