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Excellent Educators Day – an exclusive look at the men and women
helping our kids adapt to a world that’s constantly changing.
Our local educators are dealing with new challenges like
remote learning and new safety guidelines.
Listen all day February 11th to hear their stories and learn how
they’re making our children’s education and well-being their top priority
Excellent Educator - Kyle Gleason
Kyle Gleason is a virtual kindergarten teacher with the Renfrew County Catholic District School Board. Gleason attended Bishop Smith in Pembroke. He says when he was in school he had some amazing teachers that impacted his learning and wanted to do the same for other students. Due to his experience as a student and wit...
Feb 11, 2021
Excellent Educator - Ruthann McKie
Educational Assistant Ruthann McKie says her commitment to social service work is a family tradition. McKie says both her mother and grandmother gave tirelessly of themselves to help enrich the lives of others. Grandmother provided tea and empathy along with an open door policy for anyone who needed an ear to listen. H...
Feb 11, 2021
Excellent Educator - Carol Lee Todd
Carol Lee Todd is the Office Administrator at Pakenham Public School. She says she "fell into the role," and we can't imagine a nicer landing. Initially she had been volunteering her time with another elementary school when an Office Assistant's role opened. As fate would have it, this was the year Grades Sev...
Feb 11, 2021
Excellent Educator - Tracey Elliot Jeror
Tracey Elliot Juror sees Early Childhood Education as an extension of her life's involvement with children, beginning with babysitting when she was younger. She's also been a nanny; her schooling focused on becoming an ECE. Working in the profession and being involved with the younger demographic can help preserve the ...
Feb 11, 2021
Excellent Educator - Jane Kenney-Chaput
Jane Kenney-Chaput can't remember a time she didn't want to be a teacher. From delivering lesson to conscripts at her front-porch makeshift schools- where she was perhaps mother's surrogate, to cleaning blackboard erasers at the real thing, Jane wasn't going to be denied her ambition. SpecEd was Jane's initial specialt...
Feb 11, 2021
Excellent Educator - Sherrie-Mae Guthrie
Sherrie-Mae Guthrie has a two-decade teaching career, with her elementary panel expertise spread from kindergarten to grade six- and a vice-principalship prior to being seated in the principal's chair at Pakenham Public, where she was named to the lead role last June. Originally from Kemptville, Guthrie did her formali...
Feb 11, 2021
Excellent Educator - Denise Murch Damours
Denise Murch Damours is an early childhood educator. She's an ECE in kindergarten at Arnprior's Walter Zadow School, and has fulfilled that role for eight years, having made the move from the licenced childcare field after twenty-one years. Her interest in Education began in high school where she took co-op options in ...
Feb 11, 2021
Excellent Educator - Chris Couper
Chris Couper left a career in pharmaceutical management when he found it difficult to get over two bouts of parental leave, and decided to work with kids full-time. He's now an early childhood educator working with kindergarteners at St. Joseph's Elementary School in Arnprior, and wouldn't have it any other way. Couper...
Feb 11, 2021
Excellent Educator - Peter Arbour
Peter started his teaching career with Algonquin College as a part-time professor of Dendrology in the Urban Forestry-Arboriculture program at the Pembroke Campus. He became a full time faculty member and coordinator of the Forestry Technician program two years ago, joining the college after a successful career as the ...
Feb 11, 2021