Where I'm from 

Born and raised in Montréal, I have (almost) always wanted to be a teacher. After getting lost in customer service and office work for close to ten years, I decided to go back to school and get my Brevet so that I could teach in and around Montréal. I chose McGill's MATL program as it promised a focus on both theory and practice and lots of in-class experience. I chose to focus on English Language Arts since I have always loved how books can both bridge a gap between writer and community as well as allow for a (relatively safe) space for exploring questions of social justice. 

 

Where (and what) I've taught 

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2019-2020 school year: I taught English Language Arts, Cooking, and ERC at Chateauguay Valley Regional High School (NFSB). I helped organize a library mural, done in collaboration with En Masse, which was funded by a Culture in the Schools grant. I also applied for and won a Book Love Foundation Grant to grow my classroom library. 

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2018-2019 school year: I taught English Language Arts at Chateauguay Valley Regional High School (NFSB). Along with Grade-10 teacher colleague, Roberta Filiatrault, we developed and published a book of student writings. Read more about our project on the ATEQ journal, ELA Today, here. 

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2017-2018 school year: I taught English Language Arts, ERC and Science at Chateauguay Valley Regional High School (NFSB). With a grant from the Association of Teachers of English of Quebec (ATEQ), I developed a Grade 9 ELA unit on Residential Schools and Indigenous Resistance, which was turned into a Book Trunk for ATEQ. Extracurricularly, I created a weekly after-school 'Conditioning Club' for senior girls, which included boxing, yoga, and meditation.  

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2016-2017 school year: I taught Visual Arts, ERC and Contemporary World at Lake of Two Mountains High School (SWLSB). In addition to classroom-based projects - like art zines, scanner photography, re-imagined album covers and an artist dinner party - I worked with students, staff and administration to create LTM's first ever end of year art show as well as an after-school art club. Students also had the privilege of working with Montreal-based artist collective En Masse on a large scale art mural for the school library and in October 2016, students' art zines were sold at Expozine, an annual small press, comic, and zine fair in Montreal.

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2015-2016 school year: I taught English Language Arts at Alexander Galt Regional High School (ETSB). With support from Galt's administration, I was lucky enough to work with students on several interesting creative projects (they created Flash Fiction stories, filmed book trailers, designed websites, and wrote opinion pieces for the Local Paper).

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2015-2016 school year: I taught English Language Arts and ERC as a student teacher at LaurenHill Academy  (EMSB). In ELA, students wrote BlackOut poetry, created Holiday Monsters, and did a study of the YA Novel, The 121 Express, using the Hero's Journey. In ERC, our discussion on stereotypes (including a guest visit with local motivational speaker and author, Svens Telemaque). 

 

2014-2015 school year, I taught English Language Arts as a student teacher at James Lyng High School (EMSB). Grade 7 students focused on writing short personal narratives that show rather than tell, and Grade 9 students focused on writing and delivering speeches. 

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