Credentials
Accolade Educational Services was founded by Chandra Lynn Costello in Woodstock, GA, after serving for several years as a certified public school teacher and a private tutor in New York State and Atlanta, Georgia. She has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a M.S. in Secondary Education from D'Youville College in Buffalo, NY. Chandra is certified in chemistry (7-12) and general science (7-12). She is also a certified administrator of nationally standardized aptitudes tests including the Stanford test and IOWA Test of Basic Skills. Additionally, Chandra is a member of the National Tutoring Association (NTA) and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA).
Teaching Experience
Chandra has taught middle school and high school physical science - including English-as-a-Second-Language (ESOL) classes - as well as chemistry and honors physics. She also taught and coordinated labs for chemistry, physics, biology and physical science. Chandra tutors science and has taught the science portion of theGeorgia High School Graduation Test (GHSGT) summer remediation program. Additionally, she tutors most topics in math from kindergarten through college, kindergarten readiness skills, and elementary reading and language arts. She prepares students for the CRCT, SAT and GHSGT tests, too. During her classroom years, Chandra also served as the eighth-grade co-chairperson and the junior varsity cheerleading coach.
Accomplishments and Awards
As an undergraduate, Chandra was the recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Award for their summer scholarship program. She assisted the graduate chemistry department at Pennsylvania State University with nueral network research, resulting in the following publication:
Publication: Brian E. Turner, Chandra Lynn Costello, and Peter C. Jurs. "Prediction of Critical Temperatures and Pressures of Industrially Significant Organic Compounds from Molecular Structure", Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, vol 38. Pg. 639-645, 1998.
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