Ellen Peters

Ellen Peters is from Barre, Vermont. She earned her elementary education degree from the University of Vermont. She has never taught anywhere but in Vermont! Ellen began her career in a one-room school in Guildhall, Vermont.  After ten years there, she took a job in a “big” school in Jamaica, Vermont, where she taught primarily first and second grades for 28 years. She ended her career at Townshend Elementary School upon her retirement in June of 2021.  Ellen’s passion for teaching is hands-on, inquiry-based, place-based outdoor education. Music and puppets also play a large part. She does not feel ready for a life without any teaching at all, which led her heart to BEEC. “The curiosity and wonder of children, especially outdoors, is what feeds my heart.”