Michelle Hawkins graduated with a Bachelor of Education from Queen’s University in May. She spent her childhood and adolescent years in Kingston. After finishing high school, she moved to Sackville, New Brunswick to study at Mount  Allison University and then to Arizona to attend Prescott College. At university Michelle pursued a Bachelor of Arts in Human Development and developed a passion for education. She was an elected board member of the student union and the student representative on the board of a local food cooperative. She has worked as a literacy tutor and teaching assistant in Canada and United States.

Through her own process, Michelle has come to understand that education is an opportunity to develop effective relationships with ourselves, with each other, and with our environment. Michelle is dedicated to the idea that  Right Relationship is the basis of spirituality, and that education, therefore, is at its most profound Spiritual Activism. This belief led Michelle to complete a Master of Education at Loyola College in Maryland.

Michelle is a trained Montessori teacher and enjoys working with children to nurture their sense of self, sense of place, and sense of God. She is committed to experiential methods of education as a means of helping children express the truth.

To contact Michelle michelle.hawkins@chalmersunitedchurch.com