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Marina Soucy is an experienced humanities educator who has taught students from early childhood through high school across Montessori, charter, and online settings. She works primarily as a humanities teacher with a strong focus in history and ELA, helping students become thoughtful, confident learners. Marina believes strong learning starts with strong relationships: by getting to know each student individually, she builds courses that are challenging, engaging, and tailored to each learner’s interests and goals. Mastery-based learning has been central to her approach throughout her entire teaching career, allowing her to meet students where they are and hold them to genuine understanding rather than pace or grade level alone.
At the heart of my teaching is a simple belief: students learn best when they feel known, not just as learners, but as people. My job is to build a relationship where a student trusts that I am in their corner, and then to hold them to a standard they might not have set for themselves yet.
I design curriculum around questions rather than answers. No matter the content, I want students to wrestle with ideas, make connections to their own lives, and develop the habit of thinking critically about the world around them. I use project-based learning, real-world applications, and a range of assessment strategies to meet students where they are while pushing them toward where they can go.
The one-on-one model is something I believe in deeply. In a classroom of thirty students, it is easy for a kid to disappear. In a personalized setting, there is nowhere to hide, and I mean that in the best possible way. Every session is a conversation, every assignment tells me something about how that particular student thinks, and every course can be shaped around what actually motivates them. That is the kind of teaching I find most meaningful, and it is exactly what drew me to Cicero.
“Students learn best when they feel known, not just as learners, but as people.”
