Eleanor K. Smith

Eleanor K. Smith is a recently retired special education teacher currently living in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania.

She received her Bachelor’s from Michigan State University in Elementary and Special Education, and her Master’s from the University of Central Florida in Elementary Education with an emphasis in Gifted Education.

Her thirty-plus year career in special education included teaching in Texas, Florida, and Maryland. In 2013, she was recognized by the NASA Explorers School Program as a Merit Teacher.

Margaret Pastor is currently the principal of Stedwick Elementary School in Montgomery County, Maryland.

She received her Bachelor’s in Secondary Education and Master’s in Educational Psychology, both from Eastern Illinois University, and PhD from Texas A&M in Educational Administration.

Her more than forty-year career has included classroom teaching from the kindergarten level to the graduate level, and administration in both elementary and secondary level, as well as Central Office Administration. She has worked in education in both North and South America.