Lil Heroes

Ontario College of Teachers' certified primary-junior FI teacher. After supplying for half a year, I began my first year as a Core French & Phys-Ed teacher before stepping in as a Grade 2 French Immersion teacher.

Honours Bachelor of Arts (English Literature, French Language) Bachelor of Education (Primary-Junior) Bachelor of Journalism Certificate of French Proficiency

Before launching my career as a teacher, I worked for 5 years as a multimedia journalist for various online and print publications. During that time, I enjoyed meeting people from all backgrounds/walks of life as I listened to their powerful tales of courage, kindness and triumph. I especially enjoyed sharing these human-interest stories about communities coming together to fundraise/support victims who lost their homes to Alberta forest fires; military vets who persevered after life-altering injuries by training and competing in the Paralympic games and a young man (inspired by Terry Fox) to run across Canada and raise funds for Cancer Research -- just to name a few. It was these powerful stories that stirred within me that passion to later on step into the field of teaching so that I could support the education of our future generations by not only teaching them the curriculum-based academic skills (English, French, Math, Science, Social Studies etc) but more importantly to lead them through SEL and community-building lessons that plant seeds of kindness, respect, gratitude, courage, hope, resilience within them.