She returned to Tortola and worked as a schoolteacher there before traveling to Canada, where she studied at Mount Allison University, an institution that actively recruited students from the British Virgin Islands during this period.
[5][6] On her return to the British Virgin Islands, Wheatley resumed her work as a primary and secondary school teacher.
In the 1990s, Wheatley began lecturing at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, the first school of higher education based in the British Virgin Islands.
She also served on the college's Board of Governors from its founding in 1990 and helped establish its Virgin Island Studies Program in 1999.
She published four children's books in 2005 and 2006: Danielle’s Trunk, Ariana likes to Read, Who Is the Best in the Garden?, and Timmy Turtle Runs Away, all of which take place in the British Virgin Islands.
She recorded traditional practices, folk tales, idioms, and other aspects of British Virgin Islands culture.