Teacher Librarian
Peel District School Board - Louise Arbour Secondary School
Caledon, Ontario, Canada
With a Bachelor of Kinesiology and Bachelor of Education, Jonelle has had a rather unconventional path to becoming the full time teacher librarian at Louise Arbour Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario. She began her teaching career with the Peel District School Board (PDSB) as a Health and Physical Education and Family Studies teacher. Knee surgeries led her to transition from Physical Education to the School Library Learning Commons in 2015. Jonelle was one of the team members that revised the Teacher-Librarianship Additional Qualification course guidelines for the Ontario College of Teachers. She is also the recent recipient of the OSSTF District 19 Inspiring Moments Campaign and the Teachers Life Exceptional Educator Award. Jonelle is a fan of YA novels, Netflix, tattoos, music, working out and teaching!
The pandemic caused us to shift our practice but we wanted to ensure that our work with equity and social justice would continue, despite going in and out of our school and the LLC being closed to students last year. As part of the equity committee at our school, I wanted to come up with creative and engaging ways to ensure that students would see themselves and been seen in curricular and non-curricular areas of school.
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