Barrie Central Collegiate (BCC)

BARRIE CENTRAL (SCDSB), Barrie, Canada. February 2008 – June 2011

At Barrie Central , I taught Visual Art grades 9 through 12 with the Ontario Art Curriculum focusing on Art Making skills, Art Theory and Global Visual Arts through a Canadian lens, focusing on digital mediums, drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture.

At BCC, I created an ARTS website and instituted an ‘Artist of the Month’. We updated Arts Night, adding the increasingly popular Art Contest – voted on by Arts Night attendees.

Galleries of students’ work in Portfolio 2009, Portfolio 2010 , Portfolio 2011 and Arts Night Gallery are posted.

Other Involvements:

Teacher Advisor to Arts Council – organizing Library Unplugged, Coffee Nights, our annual Paint-a-thon, Art Boards and our a yearly photo-book of Art Awesomeness.
Assistant Advisor to BCC’s Student Newspaper
Set Designer for our Musicals – Cinderella and James and the Giant Peach winning
BEST SET DESIGN for the SEARS DRAMA FESTIVAL. Woo Hoo!
English component of a 4 teacher team – Extended Learning Program (XLP) improving classroom attendance from 30% to 90% during our first year.
TIPS After School Teacher, Literacy Committee Member, Literacy coach and mentor improving BCC’s OLSST scores from 79% (2007) success rate to an 84% success rate (2011)
Ontario’s Educational Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) OSSLT Scorer (2010) and Scoring Supervisor (2011).

Click here to view our Award Winning Cinderella Set Design Gallery.

And how can I ever forget our Christmas Assemblies! I LOVE BCC CHRISTMAS ASSEMBLIES! All the teachers get together to perform for the students… and I’m not sure who has the better time….