About Me

My name is Patty Zito.  I am a CT Certified Classroom and Special Education Teacher, Private Tutor, College Planner, SAT Coach, and Educational Consultant.  

As a mom and a teacher, I struggled when my own child was doing poorly in school.  I watched her try, I helped her study yet her grades were nowhere near passing.  I was feeling defeated, how could I be a teacher and not help my own child?  It became my mission to leave no stone unturned until I figured this out.  I fought to have her tested. Nothing!  Saw a pediatrician. Nothing!  Finally, a fellow teacher shared a story of a student who had a visual disability where her eyes didn't work together.  This disability was not picked up on a routine eye exam, we needed a behavioral ophthalmologist.    We were off. She was diagnosed with Convergence Inconsistency.  Now the fight to get her the basic services she needed to be successful.  She would be successful her learning just looked different.  I fought administrations and teachers.  I recreated teacher assignments to meet her accommodations.  She went from failing all her classes in grade school to graduating from high school as an honor student with 6 college credits.  She is currently in college and making the dean's list.  I vowed to use what I learned to help other students and parents.