Learning is Vulnerable.
Lyndsay Klipfel is an educator with ten years of experience helping learners feel seen, celebrated, and academically challenged.
Students love Lyndsay for her humorous and patient approach to teaching and learning and families love Lyndsay for her detailed communication and clear goals for their children. Lyndsay’s sessions are specifically crafted for the individual learner and their goals, no canned curriculum or stale lessons that don’t immediately apply. Learning is relevant, fun, and accelerated with Lyndsay’s careful coaching.
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Lyndsay will reach out for a consultation regardless of availability to determine how to best support your family and your learner. Your name will be placed on a waitlist in order of inquiry. Most families who join the waitlist typically are able to find a spot within a few months of initial contact.
Lyndsay Klipfel is a credentialed Multiple Subjects educator. Having been a classroom teacher for seven years, she recognizes the unique challenges that face students as they navigate learning in the classroom environment and beyond. Lyndsay uses humor, creativity, and compassion to help each individual find an authentic love of learning.
Lyndsay has been variously described by colleagues as the “Middle School Whisperer”; by parents as a “ Life Coach”; and by students as “basically a friend who’s really into talking about fractions and topic sentences.” Lyndsay is able to build trust and connection with even the most reluctant learner so that they feel safe and confident in engaging in the messy, vulnerable work it takes to grow and learn.
As an educator and a person, Lyndsay is interested in critical thinking. Lyndsay is inspired by the philosophers who questioned life and challenged conventional ways of thinking. With her students, Lyndsay combines philosophical questions with improv games in order to help students practice spontaneous, creative thought. Through these activities and games, students learn to trust their thinking and more consistently look to themselves for answers. This builds confidence while developing reliable tools for thinking through problems, academic and social.
Lyndsay is the co-author of the book Thinking Critically About What Matters: An Unconventional Guide, forthcoming from ALA Editions, the publishing wing of the American Library Association, Spring 2025.
Curious? Learn more about Lyndsay’s background, passions and teaching philosophy.
