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At the time she presented this keynote, Donna Lacavera was an Executive Assistant in the Professional Development Department of the provincial office of The Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association. Her responsibilities at OECTA included administering the OECTA Young Authors Awards Program, the Teacher Resources for Science and Technology, and the Measuring Up Assessment workshop series. Her responsibilities also included maintaining a liaison on behalf of teachers with the Education Quality and Accountability Office and the Ministry of Education in all matters related to assessment.
She has conducted workshops on assessment, evaluation and reporting for teachers in all grades and subjects across the province. She worked with the Ministry of Education and Training in the development of the original standards documents and more recently on the Advisory Committees for both the elementary and secondary Exemplars Projects. She also served on the EQAO Assessment and Indicators Advisory Committees. She has experience working for both EQAO and the Ministry as a trainer of markers in Reading and Writing and as a member of the development teams for several provincial assessments. She has also served as coordinator of the Catholic Curriculum Cooperative Assessment Project, which developed assessment units for Ontario Catholic elementary schools.
Collette Dowhaniuk was a Principal for thirteen years in Toronto (Etobicoke) in three different schools (French Immersion, Inner City, Suburban). She has served in many capacities in the Etobicoke Public School Principals' Association, Metro Toronto Principals' Council, and Toronto School Administrators Association, prior to her contributions to OPC. Her areas of expertise are Human Rights and Advocacy, Mentorship and Staff Development, and Performance Supervision.
Presently, she is one of the Senior Staff Consultants for the Ontario Principals' Council who provide advice and counseling to principals and vice-principal members about legal issues. She also presents legal issues workshops to local OPC groups, trains local representatives in the preparation and presentation of Terms and Conditions, supports individual OPC members at hearings, and represents all OPC members on joint committees with other education stakeholders
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John is an expert on classroom management. He presented this keynote address in 2003. John has taught grade 1, grade 8 and most grades in between. At the time of this keynote, John was on secondment from the Dufferin-Peel CDSB, serving as an instructor in the Elementary Pre-service Program at OISE/UT. He was co-coordinator of OISE/UT's Toronto East Option.
John has special interests in the areas of instructional intelligence and classroom management. He presents workshops on classroom management for teacher candidates at OISE/UT and elementary and secondary teachers in a number of Ontario school boards.
Living the life of a teacher is what I have always wanted to do. I have been teaching for 22 years around the province of Ontario. My first five years have been on Native Reserves in the north and central part of Ontario for the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. Having the rich experience of teaching native children, I have learned and appreciated the diversity amongst all students. My background is a major in physical education and health with a minor in social sciences. I have my specialist in Religious Education and Part 2 of Special Education. Currently I am working on my Masters in curriculum education. I have taught in all divisions, blended grades, and have been a special education resource teacher. In addition I have become Course Director of the AQ Religion course for Part 1, 2 and 3 as well as be an instructor for a strand in the course. There is so much to learn.
For the last few years I have been an elementary curriculum consultant working with K-8 teachers on all curriculum and classroom matters across the curriculum. My responsibilities have been to provide support for teachers in all areas of the curriculum, planning, assessment and classroom management issues. I have done a number of workshops at the Board, community and school level. I enjoy doing demonstrations in classrooms working with teachers and students to model teaching strategies or observe teachers in action. My focus has been on literacy and most recently, mathematics. I have had many opportunities to be aware of the most current practices and up-date research on effective strategies to be used in the classroom.
One of the areas that I have a strong interest in and continue to refine in my work is building community with others. It is important for me to know my audience, students or fellow teachers or administrators. I want to be able to provide for them in any way that I can. Classroom planning and management is an area that requires a great deal of attention for new and experienced teachers. In the last five years, I have done workshops around classroom planning and management because I think they go hand in hand.
Having met a number of teachers over the course of a few years, I am learning more and more about the diversity of needs in our schools. It is important that we dialogue with each other to give encouragement to find ways to support what goes on in the classroom. It is my hope that you find one or two ideas that may support you in your journey with your students. All the best on the road to discovering who you have in front of you and how you can help them be the best they can be.
Ron Gugula is a teacher who retired from the position of Executive Assistant with the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario.
He served as the Staff Development Coordinator for the Durham Board of Education, as well as the program committee chair for Durham Elementary and Secondary Administrators' Association Professional Development Committee
As early as 1994, Ron worked on the New Teacher Induction program, facilitated conferences on Action Research for school based teams, and co-planned administrative in-service focusing on the implementation of the Durham Board of Education Anti-Racist Plan.
Colleen's career in education began in Stoney Creek Ontario with teaching assignments at St. Francis Xavier and St. Martin de Porres. Moving to Toronto, she taught at St. Cecilia's and St. Vincent de Paul. During her teaching career, Colleen was an active member of OECTA.
Following her appointment to the position of Vice-principal at St. Jane Frances and St. Francis de Sales, Colleen was appointed Principal at St. Simon. During her assignment as Principal of St. Bernard's, Colleen was elected President of the Toronto Catholic Principals' and Vice-principals' Association.
Appointed Superintendent of Education in 1989, Colleen served the schools in both central Toronto and subsequently North York. She then served as Superintendent of Program Services and Staff Development. Her most recent appointment was Superintendent of Secondary schools.
Colleen has always been a strong supporter of OCSOA, serving on several committees including the curriculum committee at the Institute for Catholic Education, the advisory committee at EQAO and the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee at the Ministry of Education.
Colleen's abiding passion in education has always been focused on curriculum and the development of teacher expertise. Her particular interest in literacy has recently resulted in Colleen serving as a member of the Early Reading Panel.
Colleen is enjoying semi-retirement, pursuing interests in travel, fitness, cooking, home renovations and golf
Myra Stephen is a Provincial Curriculum Consultant for the Ontario Physical and Health Education Association (Ophea). She has been seconded from the Toronto District School Board to work with Ophea to support the implementation of the Health and Physical Education curriculum. Before working at Ophea, Myra worked as a Health and Physical Education consultant for TDSB and for the former East York board. As a teacher, Myra taught elementary Health and Physical Education, English, French, Guidance, and she spent two years teaching in Japan. Myra is passionate about the value of active healthy living for all and enjoys spending her free time outdoors whenever possible.
After a two year secondment to OPHEA, Myra has returned to the Toronto District School Board.
Barb Uttley has been an elementary educator for over thirty years - teaching every grade within that panel. The latter half of those years has been devoted to Special Education - first as a frontline teacher, and then as a Special Education Consultant with the Greater Essex Board of Education.
Barb enjoys presenting workshops on the topic of Special Ed., oftenthrough Federation, throughout the province of Ontario. Facilitating OTF Summer Institutes since their beginning, and working as a Sessional Instructor teaching Special Education Core One at the University of Windsor have also been very rewarding experiences for her. Serving on both Provincial and Local ETFO Commitees, as well as on Ministry and Board level Committees, have contributed a great deal to Barb's background in areas of educational issues in Ontario today.
Barb is currently President of the Greater Essex Local of ETFO.
Ask her what makes her most proud, and Barb will tell you that both of her sons, Chris and Drew, have chosen elementary teaching as their careers
Marnie Daly was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1949 and attended Hamilton Teachers College in 1969-70. She began her teaching career with the Hamilton-Wentworth Separate School Board in September 1970. Since that time she has taught in five board in Ontario, both public and Catholic. Marnie has spent a great deal of her career as a classroom teacher in Special Education and the Intermediate Division.
Marnie has spent most of her teaching career as a teacher advocate through her tireless work in the federations and through planning and implementing a variety of professional development opportunities.
Particularly, Marnie has always tried to provide professional development which will assist the classroom teacher in finding strategies which will ultimately make the job easier and more enjoyable
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