Erin Walker has been the Lead Teacher in the Upper School at the ACCESS Academy since 2016. Erin came to ACCESS with years of experience working with adults with disabilities as a Service & Residential Coordinator in Colorado. She has a Degree in Art Education, giving her a creative approach to Special Education where she integrates academic skills along with project-based learning into her curriculum daily.
Erin believes in promoting her students’ individual potential and independence through teaching functional life skills and employability skills. Erin and her team have created a campus-wide Coffee & Snack Cart and Online Store, which teaches students transferable job skills such as money management and customer service. In addition to her role as Lead Teacher, Erin is the Vocation Innovation Project (VIP) Program Coordinator. VIP is ACCESS’s Pre-Employment Transition Services Program that gives students the opportunity to gain skills through paid work experience both on-campus and at various business in the community.
What Erin values most about her work at ACCESS is the collaborative team approach with therapists to support each student’s individual needs, as well as seeing the growth and success of her students. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, traveling, spending time outdoors, being with her family, and expressing her creativity through crafts and design—often alongside her toy poodle, Luna.
