• Ashleigh Patey

    Ashleigh Patey, Literacy Consultant Ashleigh is currently a literacy consultant for all subject areas from kindergarten to grade 12 in Fort McMurray, Alberta. She works with 13 different schools serving the city’s population of 75,000. Prior to transitioning to her role as literacy consultant, she taught grade 3 for seven years. Ashleigh described “oil-rich” Fort…

  • Ken Stanski

    Ken Stanski, Social Studies and History Teacher Ken Stanski teaches in a rural school division just north of Edmonton with about 5,000 students. One distinct factor about the area is its proximity to CFB Edmonton with many students’ parents belonging to the Canadian Armed Forces. This context even shapes the curriculum as the school offers…

  • Dominique Laperle

    Dominique Laperle, History Teacher Dominique Laperle teaches Quebec and Canadian History at Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie in Outremont, Quebec. He mainly teaches students in secondary 3 to 5 (grades 9, 10 and 11). Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie is a private school with a history spanning over 120 years. Originally a religious school, it is now run by…

  • Charles Lévesque

    Charles Lévesque, Secondary School TeacherÉcole Pierre-DupuyMontréal, Québec Charles Lévesque teaches at École Pierre-Dupuy, which is part of the Centre de services scolaires de Montréal. He mainly teaches secondary 1 to 5 students in a small neighbourhood school with around 350 pupils. École Pierre-Dupuy is in a neighbourhood known to be disadvantaged. The school, though small,…

  • Michael Scholes

    Michael Scholes, History Teacher Michael teaches history to grade 7-11 students and has been teaching for 17 years. He teaches at Shawinigan High School, a public school in Shawinigan, Quebec. Michael teaches at a small K-12 English-speaking school in the predominantly Francophone community of Shawinigan, which is located approximately 160 kilometers from Montreal. Located on…

  • Brandon Hamilton

    Brandon Hamilton, French Immersion Teacher When he shared his experiences with us, Brandon Hamilton was teaching Grade 7 and 8 late French Immersion classes in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The student population of the school where Brandon worked reflected a mix of socio-economic backgrounds in the community, including both low and high-income families. Brandon explained that…

  • Christine Pagé

    Christine Pagé, History Teacher For the past 15 years, Ms. Pagé has taught in a French-language Catholic school in Val Caron, a small community in Greater Sudbury shaped by its mining and forestry history, as well as by the impact of a meteorite in the 1970s. The school has a current enrolment of 415 students…

  • Alexis Benoit

    Alexis Benoit, History Teacher Teaching in the heart of cosmopolitan Montréal, Alexis Benoit faces the complex challenge of teaching history to a culturally diverse class. Alexis teaches two different groups of students in a public school: one made up of five oral learners with hearing impairments and the other of sixteen students with learning difficulties.…

  • Thierry Desjardins

    Thierry Desjardins, History Teacher Thierry Desjardins has been a history teacher at Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie, a private school in Montréal, Quebec, for four years. He teaches courses in social studies to students in Secondary 1, 2 and 3.  Nestled in one of Montréal’s upscale neighborhoods, Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie is a girls’ school. Most of its students…

  • Vivien Herbreteau

    Vivien Herbreteau, History and Social Science Teacher Vivien Herbreteau has been teaching history and social science to students in grades 7 to 12 for the past nine years, including an International Baccalaureate (IB) history course. He teaches at a school with about 500 students within the Conseil scolaire acadien provincial (CSAP) school board just outside…