Thrive Instructors

Cheryl Eller has been in education for 30+ years as a teacher, administrator, and teacher trainer.  She has a MEd in Special Education, is a Fellow with the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators, a Certified Academic Therapist with the Academic Language Therapist Association (ALTA), and a Dyslexia Specialist with the International Dyslexia Association.  Cheryl previously was at the Key School in Asheville, NC where she taught children with dyslexia and was a part of the administrative and teacher training team there.
 
Presently, Cheryl is the Director/Owner of THRIVE Education Center in Asheville, NC.  THRIVE is a center that serves students with learning challenges, specifically Dyslexia, ADHD, and Dyscalculia.  She also conducts Orton-Gillingham teacher training programs in various schools and states. 

Amy Mull is a lifelong resident of Western North Carolina, with 26 years of experience as a math teacher, in both the Public and Private school arena. Amy received her Bachelor's Degree in Education from Western Carolina University. After completing college, she began her career teaching upper elementary and middle school Math. Over the past 15 years, she has taught all High School Math courses: Algebra through Calculus.  Amy is a certified Multi-Sensory Math teacher and strong advocate of hands on learning and making sure her students make the connection between the language of math and application.

Vicki Hornowski has been in education for 35 years as a teacher and a tutor in both language and math. She is trained in the basic Orton-Gillingham Language program as well as the Multisensory Math program. She taught 22 years in the state of North Carolina Public Schools and 13 years at the Key School at Carolina Day School. She has a MEd in Early Childhood education.

Presently Vicki has just retired from the public schools and has joined Thrive Education Center so that she may continue to work with students who present learning challenges, specifically those with Dyslexia. She teaches first at the concrete level where students have much work with hands on manipulatives. Once those concepts are grasped she moves to the representational level where the students are given a variety of images as well as a bit of text, and ultimately she moves her students into the abstract level which occurs when their skills have reached a level of automaticity.