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Janet M. Irvine
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Janet Irvine's career in education - as a teacher, a special education department head, a vice pr...view moreThis author has one of the top 10% most-viewed profiles @LinkedIn for 2012. http://www.linkedin.com
Janet Irvine's career in education - as a teacher, a special education department head, a vice principal, and an advocate for teenagers - has won her the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation Provincial Award for “Distinguished Service to Education and Community.” She has a Master of Education degree, a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and psychology, specialist qualifications in reading and special education, principal’s qualifications, and postgraduate accreditations in both psychology and English.
Janet has always been involved in school and community life, often working with teenagers and youth through music and drama. She has been a coach and an adviser to everything from volleyball to yearbook production to student travel.
Janet has worked as both a member and chair of various crisis response teams, safe schools committees, special needs committees, gifted education groups, and school and regional ‘at risk’ task forces; she has also acted as liaison between local police departments and students. Currently, she is an Educational Consultant for a regional Children's Aid Society, serves on the Police Services Board in her area, and is Vice Chair of the Board for a thriving Community Counselling Centre. Through her own business, Alz Well That Enz Well, Inc., she conducts training workshops and speaks publicly on a number of topics concerning education, bullying, parenting, and care giving, In her spare time, she is an editor for an international editing firm.
Her career, her extensive involvement in extracurricular activities, her community service, and her own family of four have provided her with insight into the many ramifications of bullying in schools and into the forces that create school terrorists and targets.
As an editor and author, she writes about high school culture, bullies, and victims with accuracy and sensitivity. Always an admirer of “a good read,” Janet focuses her writing on the art of storytelling, the realism of the tumultuous teenage years, and the allure of mystery, suspense, and intrigue.view less