Dr. Daisy Pellant is the Director of the Peter Clark Center at Breck. Her role is to help students understand learning and themselves as learners, engage families in effectively supporting their children as learners, and inspire faculty to develop their expertise in pedagogy aligned with current neuroscience. Throughout her education and career, Daisy has taken a strengths-based approach to understanding human development. Plans to become a juvenile court lawyer were modified after early work as a clinical counselor in Auckland and youthworker with Pillsbury Neighborhood Services and the Minneapolis Crisis Nursery. A lifelong learner, Daisy earned two Master’s degrees (Curriculum and Instruction/Mind, Brain, and Education) and a Ph.D. (Developmental Educational Psychology) while serving as a classroom teacher, faculty development director, school counselor, and psychologist in independent schools internationally and in the US . She has worked with faculty, children and families PK-12, undergraduate and graduate students.