We will get through this together.
MatchUS is an community-driven educator/related service provider and family response to support our students (and their families!) with disabilities/IEPs/support needs during this time of social distancing.
Housed within the organization MassFamilies, we are working with families and educators ANYWHERE (not just MA) to support 1:1 conversations about how best to support our students at home. This is not exclusively a free tutoring service. This is an opportunity to engage in a conversation, collaboratively about how better to support your child.
Get Connected to Support
MatchUS is primarily run by a handful of Massachusetts-based educators who are volunteering to match interested families with educators and related service providers. Many families may not have heard from their school districts or want different support than what they are receiving from their schools or local districts.
MatchUS utilizes a Google Form to collect information from families. Our team makes a match and emails the pair from matchus@massfamilies.org.
So far, more than 200 educators have signed up to be paired with families. Over 100 families have signed up and been matched.
The MatchUS Team
Emma Fialka-Feldman
Emma is a second-grade teacher in the Boston Public Schools with licenses in elementary, special education, and English Language Learners. She has an adult brother with an intellectual disability who through circles of support, lives an interdependent life working at Syracuse University.
Solanyel Perez
Solanyel is a member of the Boston Teacher Residency Program. She is completing her residency in a second-grade (now, virtual?) classroom in Boston.
Sua Im
Sua is a high school Language Arts teacher and reading remediation tutor at the Landmark School. She is a special educator with experience in private and public settings.
Jean Capizzi
Jean is currently a third grade teacher with the Cambridge Public Schools. She has also served as a special educator in the Boston Public Schools.
More About MatchUS
Connecting with Families with Special Needs Children
Emma and MFOFC’s Sophia Johannson recently appeared as guests of Scholastic and Dr. Karen Mapp from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Facilitating Community Supports for Students with Significant Disabilities
Read this article written by Emma Fialka-Feldman & Sophia Johansson about the MatchUS initiative and how it works.