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Presenters for 2020-2021 Webinars
Addressing Anti-Oppression:
COPA & OTF’s Supportive Tools - Safe@School
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Mohini Athia Janine Ruhinda
Mohini Athia is Director of Special Janine Ruhinda is a Programs
Initiatives at COPA, offering Facilitator and Video Content
schools in Ontario a range of Producer at COPA. She is also
unique programs and resources enjoying her second postsecondary
focusing on bullying prevention endeavour, studying Human
and anti-oppression. Mohini is also Rights and Equity Studies at York
a secondary school teacher with University. She finds great joy in
the Toronto District School Board facilitating the workshops COPA
(currently on a leave of absence), provides, particularly because
specializing in business studies and of the positive impact they have
special education. Mohini’s long- on the younger generation by
standing commitment to social affirming their rights. She is a
justice and the infusion of this perspective into all realms of her strong believer in creating space for all people groups to be
teaching life drew her to COPA’s unique and remarkable feminist heard, to learn and to grow with one another in hopes of
rights-based approach to fostering ‘safe, strong and free’ schools creating more conscientious and safe communities throughout
and communities. Her personal interests include travelling, Ontario. Janine’s passion for social justice and human rights also
running and volunteering at Toronto’s Native Canadian Centre. informs her work as a multimedia visual artist, with a focus on
Black rights and social change.
Central to the Economy: Bank of Canada Education
Resources for Financial & Economic Literacy
Tursday, November 5, 2020
Manuel Parreira Adam Young
As Regional Director for the Bank Adam Young, Education &
of Canada’s Ontario Regional Evaluation Specialist, works at
Office, Manuel Parreira builds and the Bank of Canada Museum in
maintains relationships with law downtown Ottawa. He enjoys
enforcement and government designing and creating supports
agencies, financial and business for teachers and youth of all ages
communities, educational to understand complex topics,
institutions and the general like the economy. This includes
public, who have a vested interest in-person and virtual lesson plans
in currency. He has served the and activities for teachers and
bank and supported the currency students of all ages. He approaches
function for the past 40 years and economic and financial literacy
is also responsible for overseeing the Regional Office’s public across different subjects and different strands of provincial
outreach program, which aims to increase awareness of the curriculum, including Ontario. He is an OCT certified teacher and
bank and anti-counterfeiting features of Canadian bank notes. has worked in the junior, intermediate, and senior divisions.
Créer des milieux scolaires et communautaires
où règnent la sécurité, la force et la liberté
Mardi 10 novembre 2020
Céline Duguay Janine Ruhinda
Céline Duguay est une proche Janine Ruhinda est animatrice et
collaboratrice du COPA depuis productrice de contenu vidéo pour
1996. Elle y occupe actuellement le COPA. Elle poursuit ses études
le poste de formatrice et d’agente en équité et droit de la personne
de soutien du Programme des à l’Université York, à Toronto. Elle
travailleuses et travailleurs se réjouit de pouvoir animer les
d’établissement dans les écoles ateliers du COPA, notamment en
(TÉÉ). L’engagement de Céline dans raison des répercussions positives
les actions visant la justice sociale qu’ils ont sur les jeunes. Elle
et le renforcement des capacités travaille très fort pour créer des
des individus et des collectivités la milieux sécuritaires dans lesquels
motive à poursuivre un mandat de toutes les personnes peuvent
sensibilisation et d’éducation afin de faire connaître les droits s’épanouir et vivre au sein de collectivités qui sont à l’écoute de
de la personne, plus particulièrement ceux des enfants et des toutes les citoyennes et de tous les citoyens. Sa passion pour
personnes vulnérables à la discrimination et à la violence. Elle la justice sociale et les droits de la personne oriente son travail
est mère de quatre enfants et s’investit dans plusieurs groupes d’artiste visuelle. Son art met en valeur les droits des personnes
communautaires qui soutiennent les familles et les jeunes dans de la communauté noire, sa diaspora et le changement social.
sa communauté.
Big Ideas for Teaching Financial Literacy!
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Bill Velos Trevor Nurmi
Bill Velos is the President of the Trevor Nurmi has been a high
Ontario Business Educators’ school business teacher for 19 years
Association (OBEA) and has in the Hamilton-Wentworth and
been a member of the OBEA Grand Erie school boards. He likes
Executive for the past 10 years to specialize in Finance, Marketing
in various roles. He is a 30-year and Entrepreneurship. He is a
Business Studies teacher who member of the OBEA Executive and
specialized in Accounting, Financial a frequent presenter at conferences.
Securities, Business Leadership He is proud to have recently
and many of the Business Studies mentored two provincial winners of
courses offered at his various schools as part of the Ontario the University of Waterloo Financial Literacy Competition.
Business Studies Curriculum. His latest venture is teaching and
marking assignments and tests at the ILC/TVO online learning
environment during this interesting and unprecedented time in
modern history.
Emilia Marotta- Erich Specht
Erich Specht has been a member
Kulcsar of OBEA for 15 years and has
Emilia Marotta-Kulcsar enjoyed a served in various capacities on the
31-year career teaching Business executive committee. His most
Studies from 1987 to 2018. She recent role is that of Treasurer.
earned her B.A.A. from Ryerson Erich has been a teacher with the
University (1985), her B.Ed. from London District Catholic School
the University of Toronto (1987), Board for the past 13 years in the
and her Master of Education areas of math and business. He
from Nipissing University (2001). obtained the CGA/CPA designation
For the last 15 years before her in 1997 while working with the Canada Revenue Agency as a
retirement in 2018, she was the Business Studies Department HST auditor.
Head at Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School in the York Region
District School Board. Throughout Emilia’s career, she has
written curricula extensively. She has presented workshops
at OBEA conferences, promoted and increased awareness of
Business Studies, reviewed Accounting 1 - 7th Edition, and has
been part of OBEA’s Executive as Vice President of Professional
Development. Emily was recognized by OBEA with the Lifetime
Membership Award in 2019.
Addressing Hate: Understanding Contemporary
Antisemitism and Its Historical Roots
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Jasmine Wong Erez Zobary
Jasmine Wong is a Senior Program Erez Zobary is a Program Specialist
Associate with Facing History and at Facing History and Ourselves
Ourselves, where she manages and holds a Bachelor of Arts and
programming and partnerships, Education from Queen’s University.
and facilitates teacher professional Erez graduated as an English and
development in workshops, History high school teacher with
conferences, and through social a specialization in social justice
media for educators across Canada. education and is passionate
Prior to her work with Facing about empowering youth through
History and Ourselves, Jasmine engaging content.
worked as a classroom teacher, adult education facilitator and
research assistant in cancer epidemiology. She earned her
M.A. in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership Studies
at Stanford University, and her B.Ed. from the Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She will
join this webinar from Toronto (Tkaranto), on the traditional
homeland of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, the
Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Wendat Nation.
Using Math Moments to Multiply Math Skills (a 10-part series)
Thursdays
Kyle Pearce
Kyle Pearce is the K-12 Mathematics Jon Orr
Consultant with the Greater Essex Jon Orr is a high school math
County District School Board, teacher at John McGregor
where his passion for mathematics Secondary School in the Lambton-
fuels him to uncover creative Kent District School Board. When
ways to spark curiosity and fuel not teaching his students and
sense-making through the inquiry spending time with his family, he
process by using tasks that are leads workshops and presentations
contextual, visual and concrete. An on teaching pedagogy in the
Apple Distinguished Educator and math classroom. As an Apple
Google Certified Innovator, Kyle Distinguished Educator and Desmos
shares his most recent noticings, wonderings, and reflections Fellow, Jon routinely talks about implementing technology and
in mathematics pedagogy and effective uses of technology great teaching strategies in his classroom. Lately, he’s been
by delivering workshops across North America, blogging on excited about promoting struggle in his students and teaching
TapIntoTeenMinds.com. Kyle lives in Belle River, Ontario with his them about resilience while problem solving. Jon lives in Tilbury,
wife, daughter and son. Ontario with his wife and three daughters.
Inuit in Canada: From Dog Teams to the Internet;
Resiliency and Change
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Qauyisaq Etitiq
Qauyisaq Etitiq, originally
from Iqaluit, Nunavut, is the
owner of Sunburst Consulting,
which specializes in providing
cultural competency training
and Inuit awareness workshops
to governments, non-profit
organizations and private
companies. He also coordinates
cultural events and enjoys
developing funding proposals, designing cultural programming
and sustainability strategies.
Indigenous Education: Working Together to Create Change
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Nancy Rowe Jodie Williams
Nancy Rowe is a Mississauga, Jodie Williams currently works as
Ojibwe of the Anishinaabek Nation the Indigenous Education Lead for
located at New Credit First Nation, the Dufferin Peel Catholic District
Ontario. She holds an honors BA School Board. As the Co-Chair for
in Indigenous Studies and Political the First Nations, Métis and Inuit
Science. Nancy is an educator, Education Association of Ontario,
consultant and a Traditional Jodie is experienced in providing
Practitioner of Anishinaabek workshops and developing
lifeways, views and customary resources to support Indigenous
practices and is currently Education in schools. She is also
completing a master’s degree of Environmental Resource the lead on a provincial Community
Studies at the University of Waterloo. She is an avid volunteer of Practice for Indigenous Knowledge and Mathematics which
who coordinates Akinomaagaye Gaamik, a grassroots initiative involves a collaboration with NASA, Maori educators from New
to provide educational opportunities for all peoples interested Zealand, and the Navajo Nation in the United States.
in Indigenous perspectives of life, health, education, history and
the environment.
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