Meet Lina Feuerstein

My professional career as a boarding school teacher began in 2012, when I graduated from Carleton College and joined the faculty at St. Paul’s School and the first graduating class of University of Pennsylvania’s Independent School Teaching Residency. I taught humanities for three years at St. Paul’s School; religion for four years at Phillips Exeter Academy; and ESL for five years as an online instructor for School of Leadership Afghanistan, while I earned a master’s degree in theological studies at Harvard Divinity School. I also have experience teaching middle school students at YESSAT in Shanghai; high school creative writing students at Interlochen Academy of the Arts, and college students in Carleton College’s Rome Study Abroad program. In addition to my training as a teacher in the classroom, I am also a researcher in education and have contributed to research teams supported by Harvard’s Project Zero and Reimagining Migration. 

I taught English, religion, philosophy, and history classes all through the pandemic, and I am aware of how difficult those years were, and continue to be, for adolescent children. My approach to teaching adolescents is a holistic one: I understand that adolescent students need more from their humanities teachers than rhetorical and compositional instruction; they need teachers who care deeply about their stories – and about who they are as human beings.

Especially during the Covid-19 era, adolescent students need teachers who will walk with them at their own pace, as they help them cultivate a writing process that is in alignment with where they are developmentally. I would be honored to help any middle school, high school, or college student cultivate his/her/their writing process, as they/he/she work on admissions essays, personal narratives, or papers for an English, history, religion, or philosophy class.

I particularly specialize in helping adolescent students, who may have struggled during the height of the pandemic, get “back on track” – I can help them cultivate the organizational and compositional tools they may have not been able to develop during the 2020 quarantine, as they look forward towards a future of possibility and promise.

While much of my work with clients is done online, I am located in Boston, MA, and I am happy to meet clients in person in the Boston area. I also have an office in Greenwich, CT, so if you are in the New York area, I would be happy to meet you in person as well.

I look forward to hearing from you!