Jamie Purcell

Jamie has been teaching and tutoring public, private, and homeschooled students for over 30 years. He majored in English and minored in History at the University of Texas at Austin, and has taken graduate courses in Reading at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.  Since becoming a teacher, he has taught High School Social Studies, English, and Math (Algebra I & II and Geometry), including several Advanced Placement courses. 

 

What Jamie enjoys most about tutoring is helping students gain confidence by giving them the tools they need to succeed. He began at his current school as the only teacher in a 21st-century one-room schoolhouse—an experimental, non-traditional high school with approximately 30 at-risk students taking lessons online with Jamie teaching, guiding, tutoring, mentoring, and preparing for state testing.  That grant ended two years ago (with an 85% success rate!) and he now teaches Freshman English and works as an English Interventionist.

 

In addition to teaching and tutoring, Jamie lives on a small farm in Texas with his wife and three children where they raise miniature dairy goats, miniature horses, alpacas (his daughters spin the wool into yarn), chickens, and Great Pyrenees dogs.