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For too long learners have been let down by the way they’ve  been taught math.

In fact, a lack of math proficiency remains one of the biggest single problems shared by learners across the globe, regardless of country.

Sarah Bartram is an online teaching pioneer who is making a difference for hundreds of learners who are fed up and reaching out for help with math - online.

An out-of-the-box thinker, it’s not too surprising that Sarah has chosen to teach online. But it is interesting that her passion and commitment to teaching developed OUTSIDE the expected teachers’college.

Yes, you read that right.

While Sarah is college trained, she is not a “certified” teacher. Instead, she is a woman with a sheer love of mathematics, a person who enjoys helping people understand and solve math problems they find too challenging to solve on their own.

And she’s made it her business to help them!

Learners LOVE working with Sarah because she makes their needs her #1 priority.

It’s easy to see just HOW MUCH they love working with her, skimming through the hundreds of stellar reviews they have left for her on LivePerson.com.

Basing her work on the belief that everyone can learn math, Sarah uses her online teaching business and her face-to-face tutoring practice to make a very decent living doing exactly what she loves most - teaching mathematics.

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How simple can you get?

1. Learners ask for and receive the math help they need.
2. Sarah makes a decent living doing what she loves.
3. Things start turning around for learners - Online.

I invite you to listen to Sarah talk about how she’s doing her part to make a dent in a global problem - that really doesn’t have to be a global problem.

…then I suggest you consider how you might start sharing your teaching passions DIRECTLY with global learners - online.

You don’t have to quit teaching to collect on your education!

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Michael Hodosh, aka Dr. Michael, is a 49-year-old clinical psychologist who is shifting his focus from face-to-face counseling to counseling online.

He’s making a lot more money online in a lot less time. And he feels he is able to help people more than he can many times in face-to-face conventional systems.

You can do the same! 

Dr. Michael does his work through Kasamba, newly acquired by Live Person.

There are dozens of online marketplaces like the one Mike is using. More are springing up every week. And people who can see new possibilities are starting to transition their counseling and life coaching practices from conventional face-to-face settings to working online through these marketplaces.

In fact, Dr. Michael is one of over 30,000 professionals registered at Kasamba (now Live Person) to help people find solutions to their most pressing problems.

With a doctorate in psychology and training as a coach through CTI, Mike currently earns from $5-6K a month in as little as 80 hours a month providing direct service to people who contact him at Kasamba, or through one of the other online profiles he maintains.

Over the course of his career, Mike has developed expertise in post-traumatic stress, shame, guilt, self-esteem, relationships, depression, anxiety, various forms of addiction, schizophrenia, and other kinds of psychotic disorders.

One of his greatest strengths is knowing how to make people feel comfortable talking about things they might never have talked about before.

Listen to Dr. Michael talk about how he’s leveraging his strengths and the resources available at Kasamba (now Live Person) to make more money in less time while helping people across the globe. You can do the same!

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I’m Meri Aaron Walker and I’ve been an independent teacher, trainer, coach, and consultant my entire working life. Over 35 years.

I’ve produced media of all kinds since my first job, writing radio ads for an underground music station in 1967. I’ve been teaching and learning on the internet since before we had Windows or graphical browsers – over 20 years now. And I’ve been studying the emergence of a new, global, digital culture since before the “public” realized what we were creating together using computers.

For my whole adult life, my work has been helping other people get from Point A to Point B faster and less expensively – and more enjoyably - than they could without me.

And, until now, I’ve quite purposefully avoided making a commitment to blogging.

Why?

Bottom line: I was waiting for the rules of engagement online to morph from more and more subtle command-and-control games to fair, two-way exchanges that benefit both parties. From serial monologue to genuine dialogue.

In other words, I was waiting for social networking to start taking hold in business, education and politics.

And it has.

During the latter half of 2007, I watched Web 2.0 shoot past its adolescence into young adulthood. Early in January, 2008, I watched Facebook sponsor and debrief the most substantive political debate I’ve seen in three decades. And, in my own participation in two dozen social networks, I’ve been watching global dialogue accelerate to the point that I can see the best way for me to manage my participation is to open this blog space and host the conversations I want to be in.

So, Ta-DAAAH!

Welcome to MAW’S TOOLBOX – a place for teachers, trainers, coaches and consultants to discover the Web 2 that works for you.

Intention
I intend for MAW’S TOOLBOX to be

1) a place to engage with me and teachers of all kinds who realize the environment for “teaching” and “learning” has definitively changed - in other words, we’re just not in Kansas anymore!

2) a place for people so excited by Web2 tools and strategies that we’re transitioning our careers into online “teaching” businesses

3) a place to share what we’re learning as we connect directly with global learners – anytime and anywhere they need our help – outside conventional systems and conventional “courseware”

4) a place to start turning your expertise into a reliable new source of CA$H for your and your family.

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