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Expert Writer & Instructor 

 
 

Phil rockrohr . . .

. . . has more than 30 years of professional writing and editing experience and is a certified public school teacher with 14 years of experience teaching and tutoring. He is a former reporter and editor for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times, writing instructor at Ravinia Reading Center, and director of the writing center at a selective enrollment high school in Chicago Public Schools.

Rockrohr is certified by the Illinois State Board of Education to teach English, language arts, speech, journalism, social science, sociology and civics/political science in grades 6-12. He served as director of the Writing Center at King College Prep High School, taught journalism at Saint Xavier University and taught high school English at De La Salle Institute.

At the Ravinia Reading Center, Rockrohr worked with dozens of elementary and high school students facing reading and writing challenges. He uses technology to overcome many of those challenges and help turn students diagnosed with dyslexia and writing disabilities into confident, successful writers.

Rockrohr received a Master of Education degree in English secondary education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

Writing & Editing experience

  • Published more than 10,000 articles for newspapers, magazines, University of Chicago and University of Illinois

  • Edited published research papers for business schools at University of Chicago, London School of Business, UCLA and Duke University

  • Custom content writer for Modern Healthcare, Oracle, Medline and Argonne National Laboratories

TEACHING EXPERIENCe

  • Six years as a writing instructor at Ravinia Reading Center in Highland Park

  • Three years as director of the Writing Center at King College Prep High School in Chicago, where his students won $6 million in college scholarships

  • Three years as a journalism instructor and student newspaper advisor at Saint Xavier University in Chicago