Meet the Teachers

• Clarence Button
• Claire Frankel-Salama
• Susan Quinn
• David Pilmer
• Hugues Émond
• Lucie Laroche-Tétrault
• Kathy Forsythe-Lantz
• Marlene Walther
• Richard Hechter
• Connie Buchanan
• Lorraine (Lola) Major
• Peter Gardiner
• Barry Lindahl
• Wendy Van Haastregt
• Carmie MacLean

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Clarence Button

O'Donel High School
Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador

Clarence Button, who worked as a field biologist and fisheries scientist before becoming a teacher, worries that Canada is not producing enough scientists. Statistics show that the country simply is not keeping pace with its economic rivals. Button has launched an entire second career to do something about this. First, he got involved in educational programming and evaluation. That experience convinced him that he could do even more, so he became a teacher.

Most science teaching is boring, he says, because it is content-rich and process-poor. "Kids spend too much time being fed information and not enough time doing science." To remedy this, Button decided to make sure his students always had the opportunity to do hands-on work, even if it meant he had to go the extra mile to make it possible. He believes that all students, especially underachievers, can benefit from hands-on, laboratory-based instruction.

Button teaches biology, science, co-operative education, computer technology and robotics, for which he has particular enthusiasm. He has spearheaded interest and participation in robotics throughout his school district, and has seen eight district schools get involved and participation increase from 20 students the first year to more than 200 in five years. The program has moved from a basic woodworking shop to facilities at Memorial University and several advanced fabrication facilities.

Button devotes the same energy and enthusiasm to his other teaching projects as well. His co-op program has been very successful at placing students in the "real world" of private enterprise and public institutions. Students in regular biology classes are able to take part in a wide variety of field trips and environmental projects. He has also aggressively and successfully sought funding for his school's information technology programs.

And students have responded. The robotics students have done very well in competition, enrolment in Advanced Placement courses has increased substantially and academic performance of all students has improved.

O'Donel High School
PO Box 578, Ruth Avenue
Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador A1N 2W4

Telephone: 709-364-5305
Fax: 709-364-5317

Email: cbutton@odonel.k12.nf.ca
Websites: www.odonel.k12.nf.ca

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Claire Frankel-Salama

Bishops College High School
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Language class is more than memorizing verb tenses when Claire Frankel-Salama is the teacher. "No matter what you teach, if you're not passionate about it, how are you going to convince students to care enough to learn?" she asks. She's passionate about languages because of what she sees as a disturbing movement towards a uniform global culture and a corresponding loss of languages and cultural diversity.

Frankel-Salama transmits this passion to her students, keeping student interest and excitement high by bringing arts, music and drama to her language classes, using Francophone African rap, Latin American pop, Spanish ballads, poetry and theatrical productions. Well-subscribed French-language history and economics classes are enlivened with innovative projects that integrate technology into learning and content from other subject areas into the lessons. Students create presentations modelled after Team Canada trade missions, or learn about the stock market using French-language sites on the Internet, electronic spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations. With constructive and relevant feedback, Frankel-Salama also develops students' language skills and encourages their successes in local, provincial, national and international public speaking competitions.

A teacher since 1976, Frankel-Salama has seen many changes in her students over the years. They are more flexible in their learning today, she notes, better able to access information from a wide variety of sources. In response, she has been a leader in integrating technology into the classroom and in developing new curriculum, a mentor to new teachers and student interns, and a presenter at professional development sessions on teaching languages.

Bishops College High School
192 Pennywell Road
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador A1C 2L6

Telephone: 709-579-4107
Fax: 709-579-4109

Email: clairefrankelsalama@esdnl.ca
Websites: www.bishops.k12.nf.ca/

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Susan Quinn

Holy Heart of Mary Regional High School
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Some students have extraordinary gifts and others have more ordinary ones, but all are capable of creating magic. Susan Quinn can, and frequently does, get just as excited and emotional about the performance of a simple pop song by the members of her concert choir as she does by a recital-winning performance by a student clearly headed for the concert stage.

"It isn't our gifts that make us special. It is the extra effort and perseverance we put into putting those gifts to work," she explains. Students who learn that lesson will see an enormous payoff in terms of greater confidence, ability to continue in the face of difficulties and effective skills for communicating and working with others. And musical training is an ideal way to do this.

Providing opportunities for musical training is a large part of what Susan Quinn has accomplished. She has developed a vibrant music program at the school, including Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses. She has also formed and trains five choirs: a concert choir open to all, and auditioned boys, girls, chamber and madrigal choirs.

These choirs have won provincial, national and international awards, performed on national television and radio, and have produced CD recordings of their performances. Her students also gain valuable organizational skills learning to manage their own time as well as plan, raise funds and run concert tours.

Holy Heart of Mary Regional High School
55 Bonaventure Avenue
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador A1C 3Z3

Telephone: 709-754-1600
Fax: 709-754-0855

Email: squinn@stemnet.nf.ca
Websites: www.hhm.k12.nf.ca

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David Pilmer

Hants East Rural High School
Milford, Nova Scotia

David Pilmer is very good at responding to a question with another question. In his mathematics classes, the point is not the answer but learning how to think mathematically. His students do a variety of activities, exercises and investigations that he has carefully designed to help them learn to develop and apply mathematical techniques to solve problems. A key part of this is students learning how to step back and assess a situation critically and then to creatively apply what they know in these situations.

Pilmer has a gift for creating innovative and thought-provoking projects that present real-life, hands-on examples of mathematical concepts. Students learn to work in groups and manage their time and tasks to meet the homework deadlines. This experience prepares them well for post-secondary education; the average mark for graduates in first-year university calculus is A-.

Pilmer's fellow math teachers and others in the educational field were quick to recognize his abilities in these areas. In his second year as a teacher, he was already creating programs and giving workshops on teaching problem solving in mathematics class. Since then he has helped develop computer-guided math lessons, acted as a consultant for textbook publishers and pioneered the introduction of a new mathematics curriculum in Nova Scotia.

He has also been a supporter of new technology in the classroom. In addition to his work in computer-based learning, Pilmer has been a long-time champion of graphics calculators. He argues that any technology introduced into the classroom must be supported. Graphics calculators are a proven and reliable technology that any teacher can understand and use with assurance.

Hants East Rural High School
2331 Highway 2
Milford, Nova Scotia B0N 1YO

Telephone: 902-758-4620
Fax: 902-758-4626

Email: pilmerd@staff.ednet.ns.ca
Websites: www.herh.ednet.ns.ca/

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Hugues Émond

École Sainte-Marguerite
Magog, Quebec

Hugues Émond decided that tinkering a little here and improving a bit there wasn't enough, so he went back to the drawing board to reconceptualize everything he was doing. The result was the Virtual Class, a learning environment where students use computer technology to interact, solve problems and publish their assignments. The students work together over a number of years, learning at their own pace, and collaborating on interdisciplinary projects.

Technology is an important aspect of the Virtual Class, as its name indicates. Émond believes it is essential that today's students master information and communication technologies (ICT) in everyday life, because these tools will be an integral part of their lives and work later on. Moreover, computer use seems to have become inherently motivating. ICT, he argues, should therefore be integrated into school curricula as much as possible, to be used as teaching tools, on par with textbooks.

The Virtual Class definitely caught the students' attention. Absenteeism dropped by 70 percent. Class attendance was boosted further by visits from a number of people taking an interest in Émond's work and teaching methods: Quebec's minister of education, undergraduate and graduate education students, parents, journalists, politicians, and other teachers. The class even made an appearance on television.

Émond started the new millennium by assuming new responsibilities. After 15 years of teaching, he became the principal of two small rural primary schools for the Commission scolaire des Sommets, École Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption in Saint-Georges-de-Windsor, and École Christ-Roi in Saint-Camille.

However, Émond's career change has not slowed him down. Since the beginning of the school year, he has been in charge of a pilot project that Quebec's department of education is currently developing, called L'école éloignée en réseau [the Remote School Network]. This project is intended to demonstrate how students from schools located in remote regions of Quebec can use — with the help of technology and networking — the same learning support services throughout their primary education.

The collaboration and learning platform developed for this project constitutes a source of information for anybody who would like to learn more about this project (visit Zone de développement des Apprentissages en Réseau (in French only)).

École Notre-Dame de l'Assomption
483 Principale
Saint-Georges-de-Windsor, Quebec J0A 1J0

Telephone: 819-828-2565
Fax: 819-828-3500

Email: hemond@csdessommets.qc.ca or hugues@abacom.com
Websites: http://csdessommets.qc.ca/ecoles/ndassomption/accueil.htm

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Lucie Laroche-Tétrault

École de la Mosaïque
Saint-Basile-le-Grand, Quebec

Lucie Laroche-Tétrault starts off the year with a theme that touches on all upcoming projects and piques the students' interest. The children are thus able to discover the pleasures of astronomy at the Parc du Mont-Mégantic's ASTROlab and invent their own planet, just like the Little Prince. Or what about going back in time and spending the year at the court of King MacSangrav? Students learn about life in the Middle Ages through books, poetry, laments and stories. Not only do they learn about it, they actually experience it by making the acquaintance of handmaids, archers, tasters and troubadours; role playing, puppet shows, the creation of one's own coat of arms… the possibilities are endless. Or, with the help of Sir Cumflex of Umlaut, knight at the king's court and journalist in another life, students become initiated into journalism. The result of these workshops: the most beautiful medieval newspaper ever seen, an original news bulletin entitled La vie en mauve [Life in mauve], and a brochure promoting one of Quebec's tourist destinations.

This variety of educational activities broadens the child's knowledge and enables him or her to acquire skills. Is this the best way for students to build self-confidence and be successful later in life? Laroche-Tétrault certainly thinks so.

And she has managed to convince others: La forêt de la Belle au bois parlant [The Forest of Speaking Beauty], a project she is directing together with communications specialist Sylvain Perreault was so popular with her Grade 6 students that it was adopted for the lower grades as well. The project received the Roy C. Hill Award and a grant from the Association québécoise des éducateurs et éducatrices du primaire, the Quebec primary teachers' association.

Laroche-Tétrault also manages Ça Presse, a newspaper that is published by students from Grade 4 to 6 and that has won awards from Mérites du français et de la francophonie en éducation [an education award for French language and culture] in the primary student newspaper category. These projects, among others, have helped students of all levels learn how to tell stories and convey information, present and defend arguments, determine when and how to appeal to emotions, and expand their vocabularies.

École de la Mosaïque
105 Montpellier
Saint-Basile-le-Grand, Quebec J3N 1C6

Telephone: 450-441-6719
Fax: 450-441-6721

Email: mosaique@csp.qc.ca
Websites: http://ecoledemosaique.com/

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Kathy Forsythe-Lantz

Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School
Baden, Ontario

"There is dignity in risk," says Kathy Forsythe-Lantz. Throughout her career teaching developmentally delayed youth, she has pushed the boundaries of what was believed possible for these students, bringing their school and life experience nearer to that of other children.

With this in mind, she's taken a class of special needs students on a three-day camping trip, taught sign language to elementary students so that they could communicate with her deaf student and initiated a for-credit peer tutoring program at her school. Special needs students and peer tutors participate in physical education, woodworking, music and art classes together.

Believing that work experience is an essential part of special needs education, Forsythe-Lantz developed an extensive School to Work program. A wide network of prospective employers, and grants and employment-creation funding, enable students to acquire valuable job and life skills experience. Many students gain summer or full-time employment from these placements. A school Eco-Garden grown out of her love and respect for the environment gives her students still more hands-on experience and brings environmental awareness to the whole school population.

This commitment and advocacy isn't limited to the classroom or community. A member of the Ontario Association for Developmental Education (OADE) in a variety of capacities for more than 30 years, she has been involved in the development of new educational standards for the intellectually disabled.

Kathy Forsythe-Lantz is now retired from teaching, but continues to work with this special population. She is still on the executive of OADE, is a managing partner with Ontario Special Olympics and serves on a committee to encourage younger participants, and advocates for parents and students when needed.

Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School
RR 2
Baden, Ontario N0B 1G0

Telephone: 519-634-5441
Fax: 519-634-5469

Email: kglantz@golden.net

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Marlene Walther

Westgate Collegiate and Vocational Institute
Thunder Bay, Ontario

Marlene Walther is excited about lifelong learning. She shares that excitement with her students, showing them how a willingness to explore and learn can lead to some amazing adventures and successes. Her newspaper course based on business English and technological design demonstrates to students the connections between their learning in the classroom and their future real world of work. International trips open her students' eyes to the wider world and teach them to tolerate and respect other people's customs and traditions.

Walther shares her passion and acquired expertise with her fellow teachers as well by providing lesson plans to new teachers and creating packages of course resource materials at Westgate Collegiate. For several years, she was the Computers Across the Curriculum Resource Teacher and Chair, encouraging and assisting fellow teachers to implement computer technology in their teaching practices and classrooms.

In pursuit of her own lifelong learning, Walther completed a master's of education degree, and between 1995 and 2000 gained credentials in English as a second language, design and technology, co-operative education and Cisco networking. Last, but by no means least, in her current position as laptop coordinator and computer teacher at a private girls' school in the United Arab Emirates, she is helping teachers and students in grades 7 to 11 use computers in all subject areas.

Westgate Collegiate and Vocational Institute
707 South James Street
Thunder Bay, Ontario P7E 2V9

Telephone: 807-577-4251
Fax: 807-473-8223

Email: mmwalther@hotmail.com
Websites: www.zayedacademy.ac.ae

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Richard Hechter

The Collegiate at the University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Richard Hechter accomplished a lot in his first three years of teaching.

For example, he played a large role in the development of a telecourse in physics. The course, the first of its kind in Manitoba, is broadcast over the province's cable television networks to students who live in remote areas, who have disabilities that make classroom learning difficult or who have responsibilities that make attending regular school difficult. He teaches the course in a study in front of a "live" classroom of approximately 25 students. Distance students follow the course on television and can submit questions by phone or email. In addition, Hechter created the 250-page telecourse workbook that is used by every student. (This text became so popular that a small underground market has developed for it, with some copies showing up as far from home as Taiwan.)

Hechter has also accomplished a lot in "regular" classrooms. He creates innovative field trips and classroom activities, such as a yearly amusement park trip that allows students to study the laws of physics in action, a screening of the Harry Potter movie to begin a unit on how modern science grew out of alchemy, and the use of a Hot Wheels racing track to demonstrate scientific principles.

In addition, he has formed alliances with outside organizations to create new learning opportunities for his students. One such alliance has resulted in his class making an annual visit to the Boeing Space Laboratories.

The most important alliance for Hechter is the one he has formed with his school. The Collegiate at the University of Winnipeg is unique in Canada in that it allows students to begin work at a university level while still in high school. The students are allowed considerable freedom in which courses and instructors they pick. The high enrolment in every course he teaches — and he teaches some of the most difficult material — is testimony to his abilities.

Hechter's association with the school is longer than three years. He traces his own enthusiasm for both science and teaching to the days when he was a student at The Collegiate.

The Collegiate at the University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba R39 2E9

Telephone: 204-786-9082
Fax: 204-755-1942

Email: r.hechter@uwinnipeg.ca
Websites: www.uwinnipeg.ca/~rhechter

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Connie Buchanan

White City School
White City, Saskatchewan

Connie Buchanan does a great variety of things in her classroom. So many, that several other Prime Minister's Award recipients said they were in awe of the range and depth of the approaches she has adopted. What they all have in common is that each approach is carefully planned to help children identify their gifts, nurture their growth and encourage their development.

She has, for example, developed intensive thematic units integrating various subject areas. She and her students have creatively transformed her classroom into a simulated environment during such themes as Medieval Times, Rocks and Minerals, The Titanic and Winnie-the-Pooh. Students have also written, planned and performed plays, researched, written and published newspapers, and built complex models.

Buchanan has investigated and implemented new teaching methods such as grade looping. This approach has one teacher stay with the same group of students as they move through a number of grades, 4 and 5 in this case. This allows the teacher and the students to develop deeper bonds of trust and respect. It is especially beneficial in the second year because there is no adjustment period at the beginning of the year, she explains.

Buchanan also pioneered the increasingly popular use of electronic portfolios in her district. Her students are taught to use Microsoft PowerPoint to record journal entries, assignments, achievements and artwork. At the end of each year, or two years for looping students, the entire portfolio is transferred onto compact disc.

The portfolios also contribute to another of Buchanan's initiatives, involving parents. She builds solid relationships with parents by sending home reports and newsletters, involving parents in student evaluation and encouraging parent tutors.

And there is more: extracurricular activities, supporting student council and other student projects and taking part in environmental initiatives.

Since receiving her Prime Minister's Award, Buchanan received a Teaching Excellence Fellowship from the University of New Brunswick.

White City School
Box 309
White City, Saskatchewan S0G 5B0

Telephone: 306-781-2115
Fax: 306-781-2567

Email: whitecitysch@sk.sympatico.ca
Websites: www.saskschools.ca/~wcs/

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Lorraine (Lola) Major

Lethbridge Collegiate Institute
Lethbridge, Alberta

Lola Major wants to open students' minds and help them become divergent thinkers. At an age when they tend to see things in "black and white," her social studies students develop creative, independent thinking with challenging and interesting lessons using current issues to highlight the causes and effects of history. Crosscurricular links from her wide knowledge and understanding of social studies and world issues help broaden their viewpoint still further. Major sets high but realistic standards for all her students and gives them numerous opportunities to express their developing opinions in a variety of forms from essays to political cartoons.

Seeing her own learning as a means to improve the learning of her students, Major strives to develop flexible, divergent and innovative thinking herself. An energetic participant in numerous professional development sessions, and someone who constantly upgrades her knowledge of curriculum resources, she has also acquired a professional diploma in education from the University of Lethbridge and a master's degree in administration and curriculum from Gonzaga University in Washington state.

Major shares her expertise and knowledge with her fellow teachers whenever possible, acting as leader in a wide range of professional development venues. Major has taught social studies methods at the University of Lethbridge, presented at teachers' conferences across the country on social studies teaching and contributed to the development of social studies curriculum and provincial diploma exams. She has also written a guide for elementary teachers on developing and leading field trips, a guide for secondary school teachers on cultural and international field trips, and a number of curriculum-based materials.

Major continues to teach social studies at Lethbridge Collegiate Institute. In May 2002, she was honoured as distinguished alumnus of the year at the University of Lethbridge.

Lethbridge Collegiate Institute
1701 5th Avenue South
Lethbridge, Alberta T1J 0W4

Telephone: 403-328-9606
Fax: 403-328-9979

Email: lola.major@lethsd.ab.ca
Websites: www.lethsd.ab.ca/lci/

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Peter Gardiner

St. Michaels University School
Victoria, British Columbia

"I don't know," is not an acceptable answer in Peter Gardiner's class. For while it may be the case that students do not know an answer, they know something, and that something is enough to get them started on the road to knowing the answer. Simply saying "I don't know" is an act of surrender.

It is also an act of betrayal, says Peter Gardiner — not of anyone else but of themselves. Students who take this approach are telling themselves that they won't even try, explains Gardiner. He knows that students are capable of a higher level of performance than they give themselves credit for, and he helps them discover just that. To do this, he employs a wide variety of teaching strategies, creates interesting hands-on exercises, provides clear demonstrations of difficult concepts and encourages lively discussion.

Gardiner has, for example, created an extracurricular biotechnology program in partnership with a biotechnology company. This lab-based evening course gives students practice in current techniques and insight into their use and implications for society. This will lead to the establishment of a biotechnology summer program for teachers and gifted students.

The level of commitment Gardiner demonstrates and insists on from his students is reflected in their achievements, such as higher than average marks in senior-level biology courses with virtually no attrition, and high scores, usually at the university-equivalent level, in Advanced Placement courses.

St. Michaels University School
3400 Richmond Road
Victoria, British Columbia V8P 4P5

Telephone: 250-592-2411
Fax: 250-592-2812

Email: pgardine@smus.bc.ca
Websites: www.smus.bc.ca

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Barry Lindahl

West Vancouver Secondary School
West Vancouver, British Columbia

When we look at the world today, we are looking at the results of history, Barry Lindahl tells his students. Our economies, political systems and cultures have evolved over thousands of years, and in order to live and succeed in the world, we need to understand how it came about.

Lindahl's history and social studies courses prepare students to be motivated, confident and excited about their success in our complex and evolving world. Confidence and motivation comes from success in essay writing, note-taking and studying; excitement comes from extensive PowerPoint presentations of history courses, complete with images, sound files, maps, movie clips and text. These presentations enrich the classroom environment and are accessible from home or any computer in the school. Students can prepare for classes, review material outside school hours and keep up with classroom learning while absent.

As his PowerPoint collections attest, Lindahl is an enthusiastic advocate of information technology. Hired by the school district to teach other teachers and schools how to maximize their use of computer technology, he visited other classes and schools to demonstrate and advise on methods to integrate computers into teaching. After two years, 70 to 80 percent of teachers in his school were using technology. In addition, he develops, organizes and presents course material and workshops on teaching social studies and using technology for professional development days. Courses include five one-day workshops a year on using PowerPoint as an instructional tool.

West Vancouver Secondary School
1750 Mathers Avenue
West Vancouver, British Columbia V7V 2G7

Telephone: 604-981-1100
Fax: 604-981-1101

Email: blindahl@sd45.bc.ca
Websites: www.sd45.bc.ca/wvss/

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Wendy Van Haastregt

Burnsview Junior Secondary School
Delta, British Columbia

Wendy Van Haastregt creates individual, competitive and cooperative activities that act as catalysts to spur her students' natural learning abilities. These innovative teaching and evaluation strategies also bring life and relevance to science.

She has, for example, transformed her classroom into a model of the human body, with ribbons for blood vessels and tables for organs. The students travel along the ribbons to the amplified beat of the heart, picking up and discarding "nutrient" and "waste" cards along the way. Similarly, she has demonstrated principles of electricity by creating a circuit of boys as electrons, furniture they must climb over representing resistance, and girls as clustered protons, creating greater attraction for the electrons.

Her students work in groups to create board games, story and comic books, skits and video and computer productions. They are also asked to collaborate with community science specialists in independent, practical experiences in selected fields, such as industry, the environment and health. They then bring the lessons they learn back and share them with their peers.

In response, both students and their parents have requested Van Haastregt as science teacher. One Grade 9 class presented a petition asking if she could teach them in Grade 10 as well. When surveyed, 98 percent of students rated Mrs. Van Haastregt's class as "good" or "terrific," and almost 100 percent of her students indicated a positive shift in their attitude towards science in her classes.

Since receiving the Prime Minister's Award, Van Haastregt was granted a Teaching Excellence Fellowship with the University of New Brunswick. She spent this fellowship working with the faculty of education and practising teachers, presenting workshops on brain-based teaching.

Building on that experience she travelled to White City, Saskatchewan, in the fall of 2002 at the invitation of fellow recipient Connie Buchanan to speak to teachers and parents about brain development and how it relates to nutrition and healthy lifestyle.

Burnsview Junior Secondary School
7658 112th Street
Delta, British Columbia V4C 4V8

Telephone: 604-594-0491
Fax: 604-594-6352

Email: wendyv@shaw.ca
Websites: www.deltasd.bc.ca/bu/index.html

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Carmie MacLean

Tusarvik School
Repulse Bay, Nunavut

What happens when an experienced, caring, talented teacher meets a classroom of northern children with no cultural history of formal education? Both the students and the teacher change.

Carmie MacLean's experience in "the South" included teaching secondary and primary math and science, being head of a special education department and getting a master's degree in education.

In the North, her Grade 6 students' experience of school was very different. Many complex factors, including but not limited to, different educational expectations on the part of students and the community, scarcity of trained teachers, and cultural differences created a school and education environment unlike that of the South.

MacLean created several incentives to improve weak language skills, such as email accounts for those with sufficient literacy skills, personal letters in response to journal entries and a daily class letter on the board. In addition, recognizing that the proposed curriculum frequently did not adequately address the backgrounds, learning styles and environment of her students, she put a great deal of time and emphasis on program adaptation and modification.

Her program uses concepts and items familiar and relevant to her students as a bridge to new material, better work habits, improved classroom behaviour and a developing interest in the outside world.

Always looking for new adventures in learning and better ways to teach, MacLean has received numerous awards over her teaching career, including the Hilroy Fellowship Award and the Dr. John Bryant Memorial Scholarship. Although officially retired, she spent two months of the 2001-2002 school year teaching at Sir Alexander Mackenzie School in Inuvik. In September 2002, she returned to Repulse Bay for a month to help introduce The Academy of Reading (a comprehensive software reading program) to the students and staff of Tusarvik School.

Tusarvik School
Box 130
Repulse Bay NU X0C 0H0

Telephone: 867-462-9920
Fax: 867-462-4232

Email: carmiemaclean@yahoo.com