Education Director
Cammie McKenzie
Cammie graduated with a major in Education, Psychology and Dance from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. After teaching bilingual education in an inner city school in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Cammie went on to receive her Masters in Education at New York University. As part of her Education program, Cammie participated in a teaching internship at The Gateway School; a private school for learning disabled children.
After completing her degree at NYU, Cammie attended Columbia University where she obtained a Masters in Business Administration. Upon graduation, Cammie joined IBM and the John Henry Martin Corporation as a bilingual education consultant. As a consultant to both of these companies, Cammie provided support in the developmental testing of Writing to Write, a computer based comprehensive writing curriculum for elementary grades and Voy a Leer Escribiendo, the Spanish counterpart.
Cammie tutors students of all ages in all subject areas including Spanish and French. She tutors in all English areas of the SAT and ACT exams. Cammie also uses foundational education tools such as the Wilson language program and the S.P.I.R.E., to help young students overcome phonemic, reading and comprehension difficulties.
Tutoring Services
Norman Davis
Norm graduated with an Engineering Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He later received an MBA from Stanford University.
Norm has been a private tutor for twelve years. He tutors all math subjects through calculus, as well as physics, chemistry and AP course material. Norm also tutors SAT/ACT math reviews.
Norm joined Learning In Motion in 2008.
Kelly O’Donoghue Todd
Kelly graduated from Florida State University where she majored in Child Development and minored in Elementary Education. After graduating, Kelly returned to Fort Myers and taught fourth grade at Canterbury School for eight years. She is now a stay-at-home mom, but continues to love working with children. She is thrilled to be part of the Learning In Motion team!
Helen Claassen
Helen received a Bachelors of Science degree from Rhodes University, in Grahamstown, South Africa majoring in Biology, Geography and minoring in Chemistry. She has had over 14 years teaching experience in South Africa, Scotland and the USA. She currently teaches middle school science, and is a Certified Teacher in Florida.
At present, Helen tutors Chemistry and Biology and is thrilled to watch student begin to master their areas of subject difficulty.
Mary Eberle
Mary graduated from St. Louis University with a degree in Mathematics. She has taught all levels of high school Math at St. Joseph’s Academy in St. Louis and Ursuline Academy in Cincinnati. Recently, she was the Math Specialist in the lower and middle school at Hathaway Brown in Cleveland. Mary has been a private Math tutor for eight years.
Amey Williams Gow
Amey received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Secondary Education, majoring in English, from the University of Akron in 1984. She moved to Florida when a teaching position became available and within the next thirty years, she taught all levels of English from Drop-out prevention to Advanced Placement and College Prep. Her continuing education includes a summer internship studying British Literature at Exeter College in Oxford, England; studied Seminole culture and tradition through the Florida Humanities Council and for the past 5 years, high school Writing Coach.
Amey has always enjoyed teaching and hopes to share her passion with her new students at Learning in Motion.
Kathy Bell
Kathy received her Bachelors in Specific Learning Disabilities from Florida Gulf Coast in 1999. She taught high school in Ohio for 3 years, then taught orthopedically impaired students in North Carolina for 5 years. For the past 8 years, Kathy has been a teacher with the Lee County School District. Kathy teaches students with mild disabilities within the inclusion setting.
She specializes in identifying the individual learning needs of students.
Elena Sestac 
Elena received her Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2012. She has been teaching in Lee County for the past six years – three years in fourth grade and three years in fifth. She loves working with students in all subject areas while helping them find the confidence to reach their highest potential. Elena is so happy to be a part of the Learning in Motion team where she can continue to impact the lives of children outside of the regular school day.
Yasmin Y. Carley
Yasmin earned a B.A. in Elementary Education from Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas in 1989. She attended Arkansas State University in 1992 to work on a Political Science major and a minor in Business Administration. Yasmin lived in England for 3 years, then moved back to the United States, and settled in Cape Coral, Florida. Yasmin is currently a First-Grade teacher in the School District of Lee County. She taught Kindergarten for 15 years. She loves teaching!
Teresa Westberry
Teresa earned her bachelors in education from FGCU. She is a native working at the same schools she attended. She proceeded to earn her Master’s degree in Education in 2014. Teresa has experience teaching all subjects Kindergarten through fifth grade. She also taught math for grades 6 through 8th. Teresa comes with 21 years of experience teaching and designing plans to meet students’ needs. Her love for learning fosters growth in her students.
Beth McDonald
Beth received her Master’s degree in Elementary Education from Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, CT after earning her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Assumption College in Worcester, MA. After arriving in FL, she taught kindergarten and first grade in the Lee County School District before becoming a Reading Coach. Beth took a position at a small private school where she taught middle school reading and then kindergarten.
Susan Gower
Susan received her degree from Southwest Missouri State and started her teaching in 1987 here in Lee County. She taught for thirty-one years in second, third, fourth and fifth grade levels. After that, she went to middle school and taught Intensive Reading classes in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade levels. She has Masters in Educational Leadership and Educational Technology. This is her first year of retirement and is so happy to continue to work with students at Learning in Motion!
Mitch Vitale
Mitch started his career as a Mechanical Designer at Ford Motor Company and switched careers to education in 2005. Since then, he has earned a master’s in education at FGCU and has taught every offered math class in the public, collegiate and private high school setting. He enjoys sharing his love of math to all his students and looks forward to many successes at Learning in Motion.