Helene M. Giroux has been an educator for 35 years. She began her teaching career in an Elementary School in Regina, Saskatchewan. She then moved to British Columbia and taught in the Public School system as an Elementary School teacher and French Immersion teacher for many years. It was when dealing with all the highly gifted children who were enrolled in her French Immersion classes that she began to see the special needs of the highly gifted learners in her care.

After more training, Helene left the public school system and started a private school for gifted children. She was the Administrator and also taught in this small Special Needs school for many years. The school quickly expanded from two classrooms to ten classrooms with 13 children in each class. Most of the experiences discussed in her book, "The Ultimate School Experience: a school with soul", come from these years. She stresses however, that all the ideas in this small book are experiences for every child in every type of school program.

Helene holds two degrees - a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in education. She is still teaching and learning - most recently, with adult basic education learners. " I love working with adult learners - they are inspiring to me. They want more out of life and are taking the steps to make a better life for themselves and their families", she says.

She presently resides in Saskatchewan with no immediate plans for retiring. She has written a Communication Course for the trades and Industry, and is also working on a novel.