Heather Lai has been an educator for over 20 years and has taught in a variety of settings. Her interests are in the following areas: outdoor education, learning through inquiry with an integrative approach, spatial reasoning through board games, collaborative Design Thinking, and Executive Function skill development.  Over the years, she had many partnerships with different interest groups where she shared and presented to a diverse audience.  Currently, she is a middle school teacher and her practice focuses on the education of the gifted. She values an inside out approach to teaching where students share their learning and voice.