Deirdre McKechnie has worked at The Windward School since 2016 and is currently teaching second grade language arts and math. During her twenty-plus years of experience, she has served as a reading support teacher in a general education school using multisensory reading instruction in a range of educational settings. She is a certified International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC), Instructor. Deirdre earned her Bachelor of Science in communication studies from Northwestern University and completed her postgraduate degree in education at the Institute of Education, University of London.