Helen holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Toronto and a Master's in Adolescence Education from Canisius College in New York. Helen's extensive teaching experience includes over fifteen years of teaching secondary special needs students, and over ten years of teaching all grade levels of English, as well as student success, business, careers, history, and intermediate math with the TDSB. She started her teaching career in Peel, teaching secondary English at all grades.