Teaching Indigenous Studies with the Liberal Studies Faculty.

FNV Events will plan fundraising events which seek to draw people who enjoy an active way to have fun. We organize volleyball tournaments and events which highlight live music and dancing, We will be revamping our events and website during 2020 to support initiatives involving Indigenous Youth alongside Human Rights and Animal Welfare (ie. Humane Societies). This has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In my present role I have a wide range of roles and responsibilities, the first being the ongoing support of the Indigenous students and families within our school board. This overarching responsibility moves forward in a collaborative manner with my colleagues in our Indigenous Education Department. Broader responsibilities include the writing, development and facilitation of culturally sensitive and appropriate Professional Development support regarding all Indigenous-related curriculum connections. Highlights have been the collaborative work as a writing team member for NBE (Contemporary Indigenous Voices) Gr. 11 English program initiated for the 2019-2020 school year for all KPRDSB secondary schools. I also collaborate with our IT Department in the ongoing development and curation of our internal resource website for all KPRDSB staff. As another means of supporting and engaging with our community digitally I am also the web manager of our IE Department social media platforms.

Successfully worked with students from Grades 9 - 12 at two of the largest secondary schools in KPRDSB during this period, East Northumberland Secondary School and Cobourg Collegiate Institute (formerly named Cobourg District Collegiate East). I was qualified to plan, teach and evaluate in the following subject areas: Indigenous Studies, English, Canadian and World Studies, Civics and Careers, and French as a Second Language, the latter ranging from Core French to French Immersion. Collaborated on the development of our school board's first NBE course offered as an e-Learning credit and delivered the course for two years. I also worked in the role as a Teacher-Librarian for three years. I had also served terms as the OSSTF Branch president and vice-president and as the Department Head/Lead Teacher of Modern Languages.Supporting students through extra-curricular sports and clubs remained my passion and to this end I particularly enjoyed being a teacher-coach of girls' and boy's rugby teams, varsity wrestling teams, as well as a teacher-advisor of the White Pine Reading club and the Amnesty International student group and with student council. .

Successfully planned for, taught and evaluated students in the French Immersion and English Intermediate programs at two public schools, Dr. Hawkins and C.R. Gummow.It was the influence of positive role-models in coaching that really led me to a career in education. As a way of demonstrating gratitude and giving back to these caring adults, I started my life as a teacher-coach of Intermediate boys' and girls' volleyball, 3- pitch, Track and Field and floor hockey teams. I was also a teacher-advisor of the Environmental and Chess clubs and lunch time intramural programs. I also served as a teacher representative on respective School Councils and had the role of acting Vice-Principal at C.R. Gummow from November of 1998 - June 1999. This was a position I thoroughly enjoyed and found rewarding.