Experienced tutor in English in Medicine Lake, Brenda offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

Mrs. Johnston is an amazing teacher and mentor who truly invests in every student she takes under her very apt wings. I am so grateful for her mentoring in my life! She always has an answer or a plan or a new way of looking at things and teaches with a healthy dose of levity, joy, and belly laughter. She'll hold you to high expectations, and you'll enjoy it!

Brenda is an amazing tutor. She had a contagious energy from the moment my son and I met her. She helped alleviate our stress immediately. She is very quick to learn “the whole picture”. Brenda’s passion, intelligence and thoroughness helped my son in so many ways. My daughter even asked to work with her on her college essays. Very pleased with her services, she’s one of the best!

Mrs. Johnston is an exceptional educator, but first and foremost, she is an advocate for her students. She takes her time to get to know each student on an individual level — their strengths, their goals, their sites of growth — and caters the way she teaches to support and empower her students. In every interaction, Mrs. Johnston believes in and fights for her students: what they need, how they can thrive, and the structures they need to be the best version of themselves as learners and as people. Having known Mrs. Johnston for more than a decade now, I can confidently say that her role as a teacher profoundly impacted the trajectory of my educational experience and life outside of the classroom. I feel wildly fortunate to have encountered her expertise as an educator, mentor, advocate, and friend.

I was fortunate enough to have met Mrs. Johnston in my adolescent years as the gifted & talented coordinator. She is an exceptional educator who strategically developed personalized solutions for all her students after assessing the needs and talent of each individual. The differential value that she added to my academic career helped to unlock the unique potential that I held. Any student would be lucky to have Mrs. Johnston as their instructor.

I am blessed to have learned from the best. I hope you are impressed by how I have progressed! (7th grader)

One of my great success is having you be our tutor, now a life-time friend!

You are a great teacher. You are great at finding videos for our reading. I love to talk to you. You talk so great. (2nd grader)

I can’t thank her enough for helping me propel my career and future. Her thoughtfulness, compassion, empathy, sincerity and kind heart is something hard to find today.

Mrs. Johnston’s mentorship has been such a huge part of my journey and I am so thankful to her.

Brenda helped me to understand how to approach the paper I was writing. Mostly important, I'm learning how to independently write papers.

Mrs. Johnston helped me with my academics and made me more confident. Her support and understanding have made a big difference in my life. I am very proud of the papers I have written and all the details and emotions I have put into them. She helped me with that. I think of her and her advice every time I am writing a paper.