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lifelong educator, parent, and author.

D. Breau has over 25 years of experience as an English teacher
for grades 7-12, including co-teaching an interdisciplinary
English/history class that produced a magazine, and for which
she won the College Board Bob Costas Award for Excellence
in Teaching Writing.
She has also taught a variety of university classes in
composition, literature, technical writing, public speaking, and
women's studies.
Dr. Breau is the author of History According to SAT: A
Content Guide to SAT Reading and Writing, which she wrote
to help students understand the history passages that comprise
about 40% of passages that students read on the SAT”
As a private tutor for students in ESL and who are preparing for the SATs, she works with
children who already know how to read, some as young as six years old. Many of her elementary
and middle school students place into honors or advanced placement classes in high school. She
excels at helping her students perfect their college or graduate school applications; most are
accepted to their first or second choice school, and several have received full funding for their
college education.
She has published scholarly articles, book reviews, including many about history books, and
lifestyle piecers, one of which appears in Chicken Soup for the Divorced Soul.
After earning a B.A. in English and History from Rutgers University, she earned a Doctorate in
English Language and Literature Letters from Vanderbilt University.
Born in New Jersey, she was raised on Long Island until she was 12. She also lived in Highland
Park, NJ. and Nashville, TN. She now resides in Albany, NY.
Her hobbies include reading, walking, anti-gravity yoga and other aerial classes, camping,
canoeing, gardening, and having adventures with her rambunctious dog. 
For more information, please consult: www.elizabethbreau.net

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