About Abby Forcier, M.Ed

I was inspired to offer my services as a learning specialist in 2014 after working for several years in public and private school, teaching various grade levels and subject areas. Although I loved working with my students in a classroom space, I found the best and most productive learning occurred in small groups and during one on one time. I also knew that students facing learning disabilities and those who struggled in a specific area benefited most from the individual attention and care. I wanted to reach more of these children and help them to regain their confidence.

Tutoring and teaching small classes are my passion as they allow me to tailor learning to the individual and provide children with opportunities to build confidence. I believe children should be guided to recognize their individual strengths instead of comparing themselves to others, and use their interests, skills, and knowledge to set learning goals, overcome challenges, and build independence. I have a M.Ed and over 17 years of teaching experience in private and public classrooms, homeschool co-ops, Title 1, and one on one settings. I have completed the Brain Gym 101 course offered by Breakthroughs International, which allows me to do Brain Integration Therapy.

Please feel free to contact me to learn more about how I can help empower your child to become a lifelong learner through guided mentoring.

WHAT PARENTS SAY

My child just completed their second summer of literacy tutoring with Abby, and we could not recommend her more! She is fun, knowledgeable and engaging. She really gets kids, and knows how to keep them focused while still having a blast.

Taproot Threads

Abby Forcier of Realized Learning is adept at understanding kids. Our 7th grader and 4th grader’s ELA and organizational skills flourished with her guidance. She figures out what works best to address each child’s challenges and does so with humor, enthusiasm and patience. Her services have a huge “ROI”. Our kids have learned skills that they will take with them going forward. They are enthusiastic about going to tutoring because Abby makes things interesting and fun. Our family highly recommends Realized Learning.

Alice Rich

Our experience with Abby has been tremendously positive! Our 8-year-old son looks forward to his weekly sessions with her and has repeatedly left saying, “that was so much fun!” Abby is enthusiastic, creative in her teaching approaches, proactive, and regularly reaches out to his school teachers to coordinate. Our son went from being behind in his reading and writing abilities to now being slightly ahead and most importantly now enjoys both!

Margaret Scott

Abby is an enthusiastic and skilled tutor who has inspired our son and really engages him in the learning process. She is so communicative and attentive to his needs and concerns. We are so grateful we found her! Highly recommend her to anyone needing some focus and reigniting interest in learning.

Joy Kubarek

Abby is amazing. We had tried other services to assist our son with his reading challenges, Abby was able to connect with him on a level that brought out true engagement. We are so grateful to have found her.

Seth Brosnan

Abby is an amazing educator. Her approach to learning is fun and effective. My son became a significantly better reader in just a few weeks because of her. He looked forward to his tutoring sessions each week and he is excited to continue his sessions during the school year. I highly recommend Abby to anyone interested in tutoring.

Natasha Quiles

Abby has been nothing short of amazing. My son looks forward to working with her every week. She cracked the code and has figured out a way to make learning fun and exciting for all! We have made so much progress since working together. We couldn’t be happier. You will not be disappointed.

S R

Abby is engaging, funny, organized and patient. We have worked with her for several years with two homeschooled kids on a variety of topics and I have always found her to be very helpful and knowledgeable. I would highly recommend Abby’s tutoring for anyone seeking a little extra educational support!

Liz Adler

Abby is an incredible tutor. She is bright, energetic, highly intelligent and she has a good sense of humor. Our student feels better about their entire academic experience after working with her. She’s dynamic and very hard working. She has been remarkably helpful with our child’s education overall– stepping in to help all of us navigate his education in school as well. We can’t recommend her more highly. She has worked with several friends in the area as well– and they also have had excellent experiences.

Simon Salloom

Abby is amazing! She’s very flexible and will work with you and your child to develop the curriculum that fits. My son enjoys going each week and is thriving with reading and writing. Highly recommended.

Jack Davis

Excellent! Abby is warm, fun, engaging, and knowledgeable. My shy kid was quick to warm-up and he learned so much. Abby is skilled in instruction and in relationship-building (that aids in learning.)

Erin Tottenham

Abby is such a fantastic tutor, she has developed a wonderful rapport with my daughter and has taken a skillful approach to helping her with her literacy challenges. It’s impressive to see the improvements and knowing that my daughter enjoys her sessions is icing on the cake. All kids should be so lucky to have someone like her helping them!

Jaime Genua

Abby has been working with our oldest for several years now, starting in middle school and progressing up into high school. She helped him overcome math anxiety and develop a solid understanding of the work. She’s been organized, professional, friendly, and a great partner for our family in supporting our children’s education. Would recommend.

Andrew Cavanagh

Abby has provided services for our son and has done an amazing job! We highly recommended her. Our son really enjoys his time with her and improvements have been noted by both our family and teachers. She is great with communication and provides excellent supplemental materials for our son to work with at home. She also makes herself available to explain progress, explain work at home projects and more.

Melanie Streeter

Abby does an amazing job at making her students feel in command of their studies.

Mark Arsenault

What would we do without Realized Learning? Abby is such an incredible skillful, intuitive and gifted teacher. We couldn’t be more grateful to have found her for our 14 year old,

Luisa Reichenheim

It’s been great to work with Abby over the last year. My 8 year old son has always struggled with reading and things only got worse when he transitioned to remote learning due to COVID. Abby has been very accommodating to his learning/behavioral needs by incorporating body movements, games (w/ prizes!) and more recently, Hi-Lo books to help keep him motivated. After seeing the improvements in his reading ability, I decided to sign up his little brother as well. They love to show me the prizes they’ve won or stories they’ve written after each session.

Christine Bourbeau

Our family has worked with Abby for several years and our experience has been wonderful. When I have felt stuck homeschooling two kids, Abby has helped us move through difficult areas. Abby was able to transition to remote learning seamlessly and we were able to continue working with her throughout Covid which has been really helpful. Both of my kids have enjoyed working with Abby. She is organized, patient, funny and very skilled at what she does! I have recommended Abby to many friends who have also loved working with her. Thank you Abby!

Ollie Mae
A few years back, my daughter and I hit a wall in our ability to write together as a homeschooling family. Every day was an uphill climb wrought with tears and struggle with a deepening belief that my child/student hated writing. I reached out to our homeschool community and a highly recommended Abby Forcier was soon in our life. We haven’t looked back since. Abby’s natural and uplifting enthusiasm and genuine care in her students was a game changer for us. Three classes and some private tutoring later, my daughter is independently and eagerly writing almost daily. She has several stories going right now. Pennie is even co-writing a few narratives with friends. She has found her writing stride and we are deeply grateful for the support and influence Abby has had on our school experience and writer’s voice.
Skye Przystas, Chicopee, MA
My son was a late reader (mid third grade) and diagnosed late with a subset of Dyslexia so his writing skills were delayed a bit as well. Additionally he struggles with fine motor skills so the physical act of writing was a challenge for J. Abby was able to use his incredible expressive language skills and assistive technology to really allow his written voice to be heard. We did 2 classes with Abby and took a bit of an extended break, just to allow for maturity and practice. We are enrolled for our third class and I couldn’t be more pleased to have Abby as a part of our homeschool “team”.
Myanna Cabrin-O'Brien, Holyoke, MA

LET’S TALK

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you might have.