THE INDEPENDENT EDUCATOR

Elizabeth Hofreuter, Wheeling
Head of Wheeling Country Day School and founder of The Center for Multisensory Learning

LOVE CONQUERS
“I switched my major when I was at Princeton University and went into a teacher prep program. I put a possible career in industry to the side and gave up all of my electives in my junior and senior year so that I could be in that program. There is no other profession without education. Every day I wake up and choose independent education, and I put a child first in every decision I make. Why does it have to be that 20,000 children have to be impacted for it to be a good program? Isn’t one life enough?”
THE DRIVEN MOTHER
“Ten years ago, we started The Center for Multisensory Learning at Wheeling Country Day School, and we did that because my child couldn’t recognize her letters. I went through all of those stages of grief that a parent goes through when there’s a diagnosis, and then I realized, ‘No, it’s not going to be a hard road ahead of her. We’re going to find out what needs to be done.’ We were lucky enough to run into a student teacher who knew the Orton-Gillingham methodology to help another student in the past. I hired her, and The Center for Multisensory Learning was born.”
NO BOUNDARIES
“We’re taking the work that we do with our Center for Multisensory Learning, and we’re going to apply it in a remote platform so that we can serve students across the state of West Virginia and even beyond the state boundaries.”
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