Reading Program
The Reading Program at Hope Creek Academy provides an alternate educational environment designed to individually accommodate the unique learning styles of students with learning disorders and other disabilities who have not previously experienced success in a classroom environment. We use a structured, sequential, and multi-sensory phonic approach.
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READING SPECIALIST (she/her)
Ginny Brooks grew up in the Richmond, VA area. She received her Masters in Special Education from The College of William and Mary and has worked in self-contained classrooms and as a resource teacher in Virginia, Oregon, and North Carolina. Ginny has taught in both public and parochial schools in Durham and tutored in home settings and at Hill Learning Center. She supervised and taught a Montessori-based Sunday School curriculum at a local Episcopal church for 9 years. She received her Augustine Literacy Project training in 2010, and this is her eleventh year at Hope Creek. Ginny and her husband live in Durham and their children have flown the coop. During her free time, Ginny enjoys listening to music, visiting thrift stores, digging in the dirt, and thinking of new strategies to help students learn.
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READING SPECIALIST (she/her)
Camille and her husband moved down to Durham from Massachusetts in 2018 for the awesome people and weather. She had worked 8 years in the Shrewsbury middle schools as a Reading Tutor. She is very happy to be working at Hope Creek Academy where she can continue her love of helping students become fluent readers. She has her certification in the Wilson Reading Program and an MBA from Seton Hall University.
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READING SPECIALIST (she/her)
Robin Wallace grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has a BA in Political Science from Chatham University in Pittsburgh. She has worked at universities (Carnegie-Mellon, Stanford) as an administrator, and in high tech in Silicon Valley. She earned her K-8 California teaching credentials through Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA, and she completed her student teaching in Ravenswood City School District in East Palo Alto, CA. In 2006, she moved to North Carolina, substitute teaching and eventually landing in 5th grade at Mary Scroggs Elementary School. Robin trained with The Augustine Literacy Project in 2009 and was a coach for several summers. She started tutoring with The Hill Learning Center in 2017 and worked as a HillRap Interventionist at Y. E. Smith Elementary and Eastway Elementary. In her spare time, she likes to cook, to read (anything Jane Austen), and to go for long walks.