Patti is a Canadian teacher, who has been teaching for over 15 years in elementary classrooms in grades 3-6.  She is passionate about using inquiry-based practices in her classroom and focuses on differentiating her instruction to ensure that all students can access learning in her classroom.  

She has taken her passion for education and founded Madly Learning in 2012 to help other teachers just like her with straight-grade and split-grade resources that go beyond the worksheet and bring current pedagogies and strategies into the classroom in simple and easy 'done for you' lessons.  She creates comprehensive full-year programs designed for teachers that want to do it right without the time to DIY it from scratch.  She has helped thousands of Canadian teachers find what they need through her popular Ignited Literacy, Ignited Math programs and Science and Social Studies Ignited Lessons.