Vicki Klimou is a Greek-Canadian who was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. There, she completed her BA at Simon Fraser University with a concentration in both Psychology and French Literature and Linguistics. She obtained her TESOL Diploma and is a certified ESL teacher. She studied at Moreland University and completed her teacher certification program and is in the process of obtaining her US teaching license. Furthermore, Vicki is a Certified Positive Discipline Classroom Educator, as well as a Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator and, most recently, she was accepted as a Positive Discipline Trainer Candidate.
Prior to coming to Greece, Vicki Klimou’s teaching career began in Canada at a Montessori institution, teaching the French language at Early Childhood levels. She moved to Greece in 2007, and, before joining ACS, worked at private language schools teaching both ESL and Kindergarten. She has been an educator at ACS Athens since 2008. An extensive and varied teaching experience, she has taught French in the Middle School, and at almost all Early Childhood levels! She is thrilled to be back in 1st Grade! Her classroom runs on Positive Discipline. Vicki is also passionate about Growth Mindset, where her students understand and learn that their talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching, and persistence. She believes education should empower a child to make a positive contribution to the world and cultivate conscious citizens.
Considering herself a lifelong learner, constantly looking for new knowledge and challenges, keeping abreast of new research and in the socio-emotional realm, she also attends and participates in many conferences. Vicki traveled to ACS in Doha, Qatar in November 2023 as she was selected to present at the 2023 ECIS Early Childhood Conference. The theme of the conference was “Rise Up, Elevating and Empowering the Joy of Early Childhood Learning” and her workshop was titled “Class Meetings the Positive Discipline Way”. In October 2024, she participated in the European Positive Discipline Think Tank in Barcelona. She also regularly leads workshops on Positive Discipline for Elementary School educators.
Vicki is married with two sons, ages 8 and 10, and has felt and seen such positive changes in her life by implementing the Positive Discipline philosophy and model within her own family.