ESLEA Staff
Our Staff consists of certified teachers and licensed speech and language pathologists. They undergo extensive training and continually participate in development programs to learn the best teaching techniques.
They work collaboratively, sharing their strengths with other staff members, to provide the best possible instruction. They also provides training opportunities for other professionals and school systems.
Patricia Kane Pennington, B.A., Language Arts teacher with certification in Elementary Education - Patricia has focused on helping students develop language skills and cognitive skills as a classroom teacher, a teacher of the gifted and talented and teacher of language arts subjects in private practice. She graduated from Frostburg State College in Maryland in 1970 with a Bachelors of Arts in Education. She taught in grades three and four in Maryland and New Hampshire before remaining at home to raise two sons and a daughter. Prior to founding Exeter Speech, Language & Education Associates, Pat worked as coordinator and teacher of Gifted Education in Portsmouth and Greenland, NH; as a fifth grade teacher at St. Patrick School in Portsmouth; and as a tutor in private practice. Pat has committed herself to training's which focus on the development of reading skills and written expression skills, critical thinking skills, and cognitive skill development. She is trained in the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® (LiPS®) program and instructs others in this program. Pat has received training in Precision Teaching and the Learning Propensity Assessment Devise cognitive skills evaluation system. Pat has also received training in Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment cognitive skills curricula and is a certified trainer for the program. Email Pat at ppennington@eslea.com
Sherri Beall, M. Ed., Certified General Special Education and Learning Disabilities teacher K-12 - Sherri is experienced in providing language-based instruction in all subject areas, with a concentration in mathematics. She has worked in both public and private school settings for the past ten years as a certified Learning Disabilities Specialist. She is trained in the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® (LiPS®) program and Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment program. Sherri has trained in Precision Teaching in mathematics at the Morningside Teachers Academy in Seattle, Washington. She integrates her experience and specialized training to provide individual programming for students of all needs and ages. Email Sherri at sbeall@eslea.com
Kate Belavitch, M.Ed., Certified Reading Specialist - Kate is a graduate of Boston College with a B.A. in History and English and has also earned a M. Ed. from the University of New Hampshire. Kate has a wide range of teaching experience. She has taught in public and private schools. Her experience includes teaching in a self-contained classroom and teaching social studies and reading. Kate has received training in the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing (LIPS) and Precision Teaching methods. She will utilize this training in working with students of ESLEA. Kate has a special interest in teaching analysis, synthesis and evaluation of non-fiction text for the purpose of development of note-taking skills.
Katie Wentworth, M.Ed., Certified in Elementary Education - Katie taught at Newmarket Elementary School, mainly fourth grade, for 34 years, and took many courses and workshops during that time. She also co-taught an education course at UNH for several years, in which university students participated in a seminar and worked in classrooms each week. She retired in 2008 and has substituted in Portsmouth and Newmarket schools. She has since become trained in the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® (LiPS®) program and in Precision Teaching techniques.
Kristine Sullivan, Office Manager
office@eslea.com
