Learning Opportunities

Charlie is an educational consultant for Learning Network Educational Services. Experience as a classroom teacher (Gr 112), school-based coordinator (LA/SS and Inclusive Education), and vice principal (K-8 school), helps her craft unique professional learning opportunities for educators. Important in the work we do as designers of professional learning is using the same teaching strategies and tools that teachers can use in their classrooms while honoring them as competent adult learners. Charlie is a Learning Transfer Endorsed Educator as well as the Regional Network Chair of @WomenEdAlberta (part of the global #WomenEd network supporting and encouraging women in formal and informal leadership positions). She is passionate about instructional leadership and improving teacher practice for all learners’ benefit.

Kim Tackaberry - As Designer of Professional Learning with the Calgary Regional Consortium, Kim’s areas of focus include literacy and inclusive education. Her teaching career spans over 30 years, ten as a classroom teacher at Foothills Academy Society, a school specializing in children with Learning Disabilities and ADHD. Kim was pivotal in initiating the design of several professional e-Learning courses for educators, two such titles include: Learning Disabilities and Introduction to Literacy and Numeracy Progressions. She is passionate about coaching educators, particularly when the focus is on supporting struggling readers. Apart from the Founder, Dr Rick Freeze, she is the sole Precision Reading presenter in North America.