Heather Colomba (Oliver) B.Sc., B.Ed.
Director of High School Level Programming/Co-owner

                Heather Colomba has been a certified teacher for 12 years.  During this time Ms. Colomba has worked in various capacities as a teacher at the Sylvan Learning Centre, at the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board and as a full time Mum.  She has her intermediate senior qualifications in math and science.

             Ms. Colomba is always looking for new opportunities to learn and strengthen her teaching skills.  She has attended numerous child development courses and parenting support groups instructed and facilitated by parenting expert Win Harwood. The knowledge and the skills acquired from these courses has proven to be invaluable both professionally and personally.   Ms. Colomba has also attended many workshops and seminars such as Reaching in-Reaching out: teaching resilience in young children, Positive Peaceful Discipline in the Classroom, and ADHD-effective strategies within the classroom.

         Ms. Colomba has tutored children of all ages since high school and has worked with many students with special needs.  She has a love of learning particularly in the areas of science and mathematics and loves to share her enthusiasm for these subjects through various age appropriate, hands on activities with the students.  She is passionate about understanding and meeting the particular needs of each student so that they may have the opportunity to grow and reach their full potential.

Julie Fader B.A., B.Ed.
Director of Elementary Level Programming and Special Needs/Co-owner

Julie Fader has been a teacher in various capacities for almost 16 years.  Passionate about the needs of children as learners, she has pursued many avenues towards information and training about how children learn, what the obstacles can be to learning for young children and how to overcome such obstacles.

As part of this ongoing pursuit, Ms. Fader co founded and co directs a not for profit organization called New ADDitudes Inc, an information, resource and support centre for parents and educators managing children with Learning Differences.  This work has lead her into some very important training around Collaborative Problem Solving with Dr.s Ross Greene and Stuart Ablon in Summer 2007 at Harvard University.

Equally passionate about the approach to imparting information to children and managing behaviour as well, Ms. Fader has also studied child development and positive peaceful methods of guiding children with Win Harwood of Positive Parenting Windsor.  For the past several years Ms. Fader has been giving workshops for Teachers about positive nurturing techniques in the classroom called "What do You want to Teach Today" and most recently "Powerful Peaceful Discipline for the Classroom Teacher" partnered with Win Harwood.

It is Ms. Fader's most fervent belief that children do best in an environment where they feel safe, their needs are being met and they experience unconditional positive regard from an adult.