Special Education Teacher  (Patsy Wallace)

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Ms. Wallace is a native of Columbia, South Carolina, and graduated in 2008 from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor's degree.  She has one daughter who is an Air Force veteran living in Apple Valley, California and her extended family lives in Columbia.  She started her career path with the non-profit Urban League in Columbia and later served as a clerk in the South Carolina House of Representatives where she was promoted to Executive Assistant to the first woman to lead the state as Lieutenant Governor.  

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Ms. Wallace later worked with corporate lawyers where her career path turned towards teaching.  Her first teaching assignment was with a Montessori school where she learned the methods Maria Montessori used to engage students who thought to have disabilities and after a careful study found they needed to make their own creative choices in how they learn with the highly trained teacher offering age-appropriate activities to guide the process.  She has worked in several charters and school districts while she learned the art of teaching.  She attended Midlands Technical College to complete a course of study in Early Childhood Education and later began a Master’s program in Special Education at the University of Phoenix.  She recently received her K-12 Special Education certification through an educator preparation program at Rio Salado College. She brings to Victory Autism Academy a love of children and a desire to prepare them for all that lies ahead.  Ms. Wallace is reminded that “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” -- Oliver Windell Holmes.