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All Blue Door teachers have extensive training, knowledge and experience working with children who require more intensive support in their learning. Our centre has a particular focus on Specific Learning Disorders. All our teachers are passionate about the work they do, and are ready to assist children to achieve their potential. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/22768ff9-c095-4558-8db4-8efd7b11b851/271248573_400362128552861_2848659125854588815_n.jpg Front door https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/933387c2-7b5e-4a64-b91a-0c0be1790810/270124889_640589670711901_4560600235328930994_n.jpg Front door https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/bd2f512f-309e-4ffa-8fd4-f328209d7a86/270144977_1291091594746757_5054057711359795316_n.jpg Front door https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/63494d82-89f2-4be8-8a67-2523954ffeeb/270238362_4772608516118892_7073655636160890706_n.jpg Front door https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/9c132a38-9a4d-42ab-90b2-d764ca3537d0/271242575_443816340638167_3183742872065182670_n.jpg Front door https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/d65a503c-6115-4e96-8583-86492800f3e4/271384476_906849436627207_2074877852095468908_n.jpg Front door https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/eeec1949-832e-4dfc-ad14-36f72aab5657/271401393_489909399156194_8768464797420535797_n.jpg Front door https://www.bluedoorlearning.com.au/history-lesson daily 0.75 2022-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/1626095247432-SB7D4XVQEV1VUFOVSPJQ/IMG_1835.JPG Our heritage building A charming sketch of the building, made by local artist Joan Bourke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/8e75583a-e81b-4b55-b05d-d897ba0c3b9e/Gisborne+Postcard.jpg Our heritage building View down Aitken St towards the corner store, showing the shops and homes that stood at the turn of the century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/bbbf5347-88f0-4b21-866b-dfd691046c58/Bradley+%26+Moore%27s+Corner+Store.jpg Our heritage building The corner store, early 20th century. Take note of all the various advertisements for products of the era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/54bc78a8-7671-44fa-bf19-7e6ec36a5bae/Corner+Store+Gisborne+built+for+Hussey+%26+Haig.jpg Our heritage building The corner store and the fountain have been around together for a long time! Circa 1900s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/aeaab375-080c-4420-a29a-ac62f5059906/image-28v3u6c.jpg Our heritage building View taken from the corner store towards the Telegraph Hotel. Circa 1910s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/22ac8718-842c-4864-864a-f0571e480a87/Foodland+June+1975.jpg Our heritage building Times are changing, and the building now hosts a supermarket. Mid to late 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/9e9f1f52-2e96-4461-aa0a-33c79b5cc37b/Corner+Store.jpg Our heritage building The building pictured in the 1990s, in its current guise as a real estate office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/bdc3367a-6165-41c3-96f2-ed300f0a142e/ExteriorShot_01_HalfRes.png Our heritage building The corner store in 2022. Now Brad Teal real estate and The Blue Door! https://www.bluedoorlearning.com.au/our-vision daily 0.75 2022-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/9b41662f-04e7-4795-bfcc-4d3317dc3654/27973717_505740696493573_8700216754430071632_n.jpg Our vision We are passionate about providing students, who are experiencing challenges in their learning, with the highest quality teaching and intervention. Our support and encouragement allows them to thrive and grow as learners as well as young people. We pride ourselves on providing a warm, welcoming, positive, inclusive, happy and safe environment for all our students. We also empower parents and teachers, providing them with the information and skills required to best assist students at home and within the school. The triad of student, parent and teacher working together, to create a path forward and to achieve the best possible outcome, is the model of the Blue Door Learning Support Centre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/7fd81434-1ec4-4579-843d-67e7aa45d0de/B_Roll_04_HalfRes.png Our vision - Our vision for the future We continually move towards enhancing our role as a leading centre in the field of educational support, catering for students who are experiencing learning challenges. Our future direction is an expansion of the support we currently offer to students, parents and teachers, including advocacy, regular high quality professional development opportunities for teachers, consultation within schools, mentoring for pre-service (student) teachers, facilitating and taking part in research programs and publications. https://www.bluedoorlearning.com.au/our-teachers daily 0.75 2024-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/1640676597986-XEZE65R5XF5T8XWBAOUX/Portrait_Kate_Cropped_HalfRes.png Our teachers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/1641879098039-18HQA99DE7I891RRWHNT/Portrait_Jenny_02_Cropped_HalfRes.png Our teachers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/1641879126259-X1L82UUOHH321W80Y9KE/Portrait_Glenda_Cropped_HalfRes.png Our teachers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/202eaac8-181b-4875-98aa-d4a00ed92eca/849a2512-b878-4f21-9e47-22339b425f58.jpeg Our teachers https://www.bluedoorlearning.com.au/testimonials daily 0.75 2022-02-11 https://www.bluedoorlearning.com.au/jenny daily 0.75 2022-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/1641879098039-18HQA99DE7I891RRWHNT/Portrait_Jenny_02_Cropped_HalfRes.png Jenny - Jenny Vanderzweep Founder, Centre Director and Blue Door Teacher Jenny Vanderzweep has worked in the field of education for over 40 years. Starting out as a Primary Teacher in her country of birth, the Netherlands, she developed a keen interest in those students in her class, who despite being bright and intelligent, found learning to read and write very difficult. Deciding that her teacher training had not fully equipped her to support these students in reaching their potential, she decided to expand her knowledge in the field of individual learning needs, gaining a post-graduate degree in Special Education, with a main focus on Specific Learning Disorders. Jenny started working in a Specialist School setting, before joining a team of specialists in the Government School Support and Assessment Centre in Rotterdam. Here she worked closely together with an Educational Psychologist, Speech Pathologist, Occupational Therapist, Medical Practitioner and Social Worker. This multi-disciplinary approach to supporting individual students appealed greatly to Jenny and had a life-long influence on her philosophy of best practice in student support. On migrating to Australia in 1990, Jenny decided to return to the direct teaching and support of students within mainstream schools in Melbourne’s Independent School sector. She gained a position as Head of Special Education at Mowbray College, later followed by Geelong Grammar School and Ivanhoe Grammar School, where her employment is currently ongoing. Jenny’s work and ongoing studies within the field of individual student needs and learning disorders continued to fan her passion in this area. She became a Consultant Member with Learning Difficulties Australia, while exploring and trialling private specialist teaching. In July 2017, she fulfilled a long-held dream, opening the ‘Blue Door Learning Support Centre’ in her hometown of Gisborne in the Macedon Ranges. In her role as Founding Director, Jenny leads a team of dedicated teachers, who support students, their parents and teachers through individual student assessments, specialist teaching, parent advocacy and teacher professional development. https://www.bluedoorlearning.com.au/our-services daily 0.75 2022-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/d95be86c-a129-4ac1-9684-50b4fcf14938/271401393_489909399156194_8768464797420535797_n.jpg Our services - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/9c132a38-9a4d-42ab-90b2-d764ca3537d0/271242575_443816340638167_3183742872065182670_n.jpg Our services - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/5d73bd65-598c-419b-9f6b-813922a7b267/270124889_640589670711901_4560600235328930994_n.jpg Our services - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.bluedoorlearning.com.au/ask-us daily 0.75 2024-07-15 https://www.bluedoorlearning.com.au/errors-ahoy daily 0.75 2021-07-04 https://www.bluedoorlearning.com.au/kate daily 0.75 2024-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/1626094695797-1XRSF7DCRFR5L65CWLWN/Portrait_Kate_Cropped_HalfRes.png Kate Floyd - Kate Floyd Blue Door Teacher The beautiful countryside of the Western district of Victoria is where Kate’s life began. Kate’s love of learning was instilled through her family paradigm and was reinforced during her tutelage at Bendigo College. After graduating with a Bachelor of Art, she moved to the north coast of New South Wales and established a business as a Studio Artist. Kate started working privately as well as at the local Primary School, supporting teachers and students in both reading and art. As her enjoyment in teaching grew, she chose to return to the University of New England to qualify as a Secondary School Visual Arts Teacher. Kate taught broadly across the curriculum, in Humanities and Social Sciences in both Primary and Secondary Schools. In recent years, Kate held a position as a Learning Support Teacher, working individually with students requiring special provisions. She acknowledges that many students are unable to access the mainstream education program due to a range of factors, some of which may also be exacerbated in the classroom environment. Kate believes strongly that the opportunity for success may be reached through shared knowledge between student and teacher and through understanding of an individual student’s strengths and learning styles. Throughout Kate’s teaching experiences, she has always fostered trust and worked collaboratively with students and their families to build pathways, which support the students and enable them to access their curriculum and really enjoy learning. https://www.bluedoorlearning.com.au/intake-and-assessment daily 0.75 2022-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/2f9d960a-729b-4887-937c-6a1ab48190a6/B_Roll_03_HalfRes.png Intake and assessment - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/33214249-5bb5-4fbe-9f7c-556eeb0ad657/B_Roll_05_HalfRes.png Intake and assessment - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.bluedoorlearning.com.au/glenda daily 0.75 2022-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/b59ab185-54dc-4985-a9c1-8dd269900590/Portrait_Glenda_Cropped_HalfRes.png Glenda - Glenda Earle Blue Door Teacher Glenda is an experienced special educator with over 20 years’ experience in the field. Her passion, interest and expertise was honed during study for the Masters of Special Education degree at Griffith University in Queensland. With the opportunity to work at a national level, Glenda worked on the Positive Partnerships government funded program for three years, training parents and educators throughout Australia under the Helping Students with Autism initiative. Glenda’s training and professional learning has continued within the field of Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and Dyscalculia having engaged in a number of SPELD Victoria and LDA (Learning Difficulties Australia) courses to formally develop this expertise. She continues to constantly improve her skills by working intensively on tailored programs with students from primary through to secondary years, with a firm belief that her learning is in the doing. Her ability to genuinely connect and build relationships with young people of various ages brings gratification and increased efficacy to her work. Glenda currently works in a high school in the Macedon Ranges, specialising in evolving an inclusive and effective learning environment for those with specific learning needs. https://www.bluedoorlearning.com.au/beyond-the-door daily 0.75 2022-01-15 https://www.bluedoorlearning.com.au/monika daily 0.75 2024-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b8d3c51506593f7fc68c25/202eaac8-181b-4875-98aa-d4a00ed92eca/849a2512-b878-4f21-9e47-22339b425f58.jpeg Monika - Monika Sztendur Blue Door Teacher Monika has been an educator for nearly 30 years, commencing her teaching career as a classroom teacher at Holy Cross PS in the Macedon Ranges. After completing her Masters in Education, she relocated to Sydney and moved into the area of Disability Inclusion supporting children with Autism, as an Applied Behaviour Analysis Therapist at the client’s home. During this time her passion for supporting children with additional needs developed and she commenced her employment with the Archdiocese of Sydney supporting students, teachers and parents in disability inclusion in the classroom. Monika continued her education by completing post graduate studies: Graduate Certificate in Education (Special Education), Mini Certificate in Behaviour and Postgraduate Certificate in Inclusive Schooling. Upon returning to Melbourne Monika has worked as a Reading Intervention Teacher and Tutor teacher at a number of Department, Catholic and Independent Primary Schools, both in Melbourne and in the Macedon Ranges. She has a comprehensive understanding of different learning disabilities and difficulties such as autism, dyslexia, ADHD, language delay and cognitive delay. Monika’s passion lies in providing an individualised learning program, that can stimulate and motivate a positive learning experience for her students. She prioritises in developing a trusting relationship with her pupils, in a secure environment where the students feel safe to have a go and work to their potential.