Ph.D. student (current)
Master of Education ('96)
Harvard University
Graduate School of Education 2006 - 2007
Featured speaker at
NAREN's Annual Conference, Panama City, Florida
February 2010
(National At-Risk Educators' Network)
Published internationally November, 2009
National At-Risk Educators' Network's "Silhouettes" journal
Who I Am:
- An education writer and editor working in both United States and Canada. Received contracts with Pearson Education, Scholastic, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, and Canadian Geographic, as well as other educational publishing firms.
- An educator, teaching in the public education system since 1985. Developed a high school program for at-risk youth.
- A high school guidance counsellor.
- A regular undergraduate instructor in education and educational psychology classes.
- AP (Advanced Placement) Coordinator.
- Certified as an English teacher with twenty-three years of experience; keen attention to detail in grammar, spelling, and English Language usage.
- English as an Additional Language teaching experience; EAL materials writing experience.
What I Do:
- Education writing and editing on a contractual basis for educational publishers, school boards, and Ministries of Education both within Canada and the United States.
- Professional Development planning and facilitating; keynote presenter.
- Teach.
Undergraduate Course Developer
- Enhancing classroom management: students with special needs
- Understanding and enhancing student development
- Individual assessment and instructional adaptation for students with special needs
- First Nations / minority special education
Published author
Voices of Alberta
(gr. 4 social studies)
Writer for Canadian Geographic:
Certified as a Developmental Auditor and using
Response Abilities Pathways with "at-risk" youth.
CRISS ™ District Trainer Certified
Contracted by SIDRU 2008-2009
(Sask. Instructional Development and Research Unit)
as a researcher/writer for holistic assessment creation
Contracted by the Government of Saskatchewan in partnership with Regina Public Schools to put original Aboriginal Teaching Curriculum Resources online, 2002. See Aboriginal Resources. - Contracted by Regina Public Schools' Indian and Métis Curriculum Committee to create five secondary novel study guides for grades 8 - 12 with a focus on Canadian urban Aboriginal themes, 2001. Also contracted to write eight lesson plans, social studies grades 9 - 12, Treaties and Governance.
- Beyond Duty: A Compilation of Teachers’ Roles and Responsibilities with “At Risk” Youth in Saskatchewan Secondary Schools. Published by the Dr. Stirling McDowell Foundation for Research into Teaching, 2000. Beyond Duty Report Summary. Beyond Duty Full Report.
Distance Education Specialist
- Critique of Distance Delivery of Educational Programs and Services
- Leadership and Administration of Instructional Technology Within the Educational System
- The Nature of Online Education
Provincial Involvement in Education
- Minister of Learning’s Order of Appointment to the Aboriginal Education Provincial Advisory Committee (AEPAC) 2001 - 2006. Appointed to Provincial Inservice and Professional Development initiative, AEPAC
- Member of the Provincial Executive, Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation 2001 - 2003
- Teacher Classification Board Member 2002 - 2003
- Materials Evaluator, social studies, grades five through nine, Saskatchewan Learning 2003
- Member of the Consultation Committee for The Common Curriculum Framework for Social Studies, Kindergarten to Grade 12, Western Canadian Protocol for Collaboration in Basic Education 2001
- Learning from Practise focus and planning committee, Sask. Professional Dev. Unit 2001 - 2002
- McDowell Foundation Advisory Board, Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation 2001 -2002
- Provincial Awards and Scholarship Committee, Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation, 2000
- Member of provincial organizing committee for Showcase 2001, Saskatchewan Professional Development Unit, 1999 – 2001
- Saskatchewan Professional Development Unit Management Advisory Board 1999 - 2001; reappointed 2005
- Councillor, Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation 1998 - 2003
National Involvement in Education
- Sask. Teachers' Fed. representative at Cdn. Teachers' Fed. Conference in Equity
in Education, Ottawa, 2002
- Delegate at Cdn. Teachers' Federation Annual General Mtg., St. John's, Nfld.
2002
- Delegate at Cdn. Teachers' Federation Annual General Mtg., Whitehorse,
Yukon, 2001
- Delegate at Calming the Storm Middle Years Conference, Banff, Alberta, 1993
