Specialists

Becca Bouchard works with educators to grow their practice and skills within the realms of teaching and learning. Through a data-driven and student-centered approach, consulting blends the rigour of academics with relationship-building between all learners within schools. Becca comes to this role with a decade’s worth of experience in the classroom at the secondary level, leading learning teams, mentoring new staff, and as the Executive Functions Lead. Her commitment to her work is driven by her passion for learning, reading, connecting with others, and by her fervent belief that all children can learn, grow, and are deserving of a caring and high-quality education.

Dana Braunberger is a passionate educator, researcher, and university instructor, fiercely committed to building leadership that fosters future-focused learning cultures. Her passion is to support leaders grow healthy, thriving organizations that create learning success for all. Dana has been a teacher, principal, Chief Performance Officer, and currently leads Research and Innovation. With decades of experience in K-12 education, her passion is fuelled by the potential of all students and the inspiration of people who envision transformative opportunities and bring innovation to life.

In addition to her professional life, Ashlee is passionate about traveling and spending time with her family. 

Dana Haynes is the founder of The Literacy Corner tutoring agency in British Columbia and graduated at the top of her class with a Linguistics degree and a TESL certificate from Simon Fraser University. Dana came across the Literacy Links program by witnessing her 10-year-old stepson gain functional literacy in just 20 hours of intensive phonics instruction with Kathy Rollheiser. As a Linguist and teacher, Dana was impressed with the design and efficacy of the program. She started using Literacy Links in her classroom with groups of up to 15 students at a time and found it to be extremely effective.

After going on maternity leave for the birth of her son, she started the Literacy Corner so she could teach from home and has since trained more than 30 tutors in how to use the Literacy Links program. Dana loves that the Literacy Links program provides excellent structure while still allowing for flexibility and individualized instruction; in her opinion, it is the best program on the market for reading intervention.

Irene Oakes, Asini Iskwew, is a member of the Nekaneet Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, and has been an educator in Canada and the US in different capacities. She has been a classroom teacher, a school principal, superintendent and has worked with students at the university level as an instructor and their field experience coordination. Irene recently worked with Headwater Learning Solutions with one of their partner First Nations communities. She is presently working as an independent education researcher and contractor and is excited to continue to support Headwater as they continue to support students to realize their full holistic potential.

Kathy has been a special education teacher for 35 years, specializing in language and reading disabilities. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Education from the University of Saskatchewan and a Master’s degree from the University of Victoria. She was one of the first teachers to train in Literacy Links when it was first developed in 1997 and has been using it steadily ever since. She has helped many children and adults develop both confidence and reading skills in one-on-one reading clinics in British Columbia. She has trained teachers, psychologists, tutors, speech pathologists, and parents in her Literacy Links workshops. 

In 2004, she was part of the EDC LEAP project in Nigeria and adapted Literacy Links for use in Nigerian schools. She then took it to Thailand to a children’s refuge and set up an English classroom with Literacy Links as the basis for instruction. More recently,  she introduced Literacy Links to first-year Education students at Thompson Rivers University.