In 1979 she founded The Canadian Alliance of Home Schoolers , Canada's first home schooling support group. In the mid-1980s, she conducted some of the first research on homeschooling in Canada. She is a trained elementary school teacher and a past president of the Ontario Association of Alternative and Independent Schools. She has presented hundreds of workshops, seminars and speeches across Canada and the United States since 1979, and given innumerable media interviews on the subject of deschooling. When you hire her as a presenter, you receive a personal commitment to the excellence of her work from conception to finished presentation.
Keynotes are highly entertaining and thought-provoking.
Workshops are interactive and include participant discussion and problem-solving. Tools can include slides, overheads, worksheets and copies of School Free.