Chandra P.

Hello! I'm Dr. Chandra Payton, a retired California educator with a doctorate in education and many years of elementary classroom experience as both a teacher and an intervention specialist in ELA, Math, and ESL. I specialize in helping 3rd through 5th grade students build strong, confidant writing skills - especially for the SBAC (Smarter Balanced) assessments. My sessions are personalized, encouraging, and focused on the fundamentals: paragraph structure, using evidence from texts, organi…