Eleanor joined our team in August 2008 as teacher of the post secondary academic program for young adults. Eleanor has her degree from McGill University in Kindergarten and Elementary Education, and has years of experience working with youth including experience at Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre where she was grant manager of the summer and winter day camps. She worked at Aunt Leah’s Independent Life Skills Society, a non-profit organization that assists disadvantaged youth lacking stable support systems in their lives. As a youth worker she provided support and helped adolescents learn the necessary life skills to live independently. Most recently, she worked at the Vancouver Learning Centre for 4 years where she taught adults and children with learning difficulties. As the teacher of the Reading & Communication Programs (1, 2 and Plus) Eleanor manages three classes of students with a wide variety of reading skills. The Reading & Communication programs focus on improving abilities ranging from sight word recognition and vocabulary, to language and comprehension.
