From hating school as a child, to award-winning teacher

Award-winning teacher, Gail Harrison, is the Manager and Lead Educator of Whanganui Learning Centre, and recently received a national Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award for sustained excellence. The former primary and intermediate school teacher has been with the not-for-profit charitable trust for more than a decade, and is dedicated to adult literacy and community learning. She tells Kathryn Ryan that school was not a happy place for her as a child.