Contact and  Collaborators

Curran is a Kanienke’ha:ka woman who currently navigates the world as teacher some days and as a consultant on others. She is the Indigenous Resource Teacher for Adult Education at the Nova Career Centre in Chateauguay. She also doubles as the Indigenous advisor for the New Frontiers School Board. Curran has worked with Kanienke’haka youth for most of her life, including her role as classroom teacher at Karonhianonhnha School in Kahnawake for the past 2 years. She also has experience in Eeyou Itschee as she completed one of her teaching internships at the CSB in Mistissini. All of this work and the future work is to help foster better education for Indigenous youth, while modelling the reality of walking in two worlds simultaneously.

Daniel Lalande has been a pedagogical consultant at the Centre de services scolaires des Mille-îles for nearly fifteen years. His career path has led him to work in vocational training, general education for youth, and general education for adults. He has also worked as a math and science teacher with young people at risk of dropping out of school for over a decade. Aware of the essential role of education in the development of individuals and society, he was very pleased to collaborate on this project.

Passionate about education, Vanessa Boily takes to heart the success of each student according to the goal they have set for themselves. She has been working in Adult General Education (AGE) since 2009 as a French teacher and since 2014 as a pedagogical consultant for the Carrefour FGA and for the Équipe-choc pédagogique. Over the past few years, she has had the great privilege of working with different communities in Quebec as a pedagogical consultant for the Équipe-choc Premières Nations et Inuit (FNI). The collaborative approach used to develop this project, which combines the strengths of each community - Indigenous pedagogy, vocational training, AGE, etc. - She considers this approach to be essential. She hopes that it will inspire other projects that are equally relevant to indigenous and non-indigenous students, so as to build bridges for the future between different pedagogical methods and different cultures.

Julie Bourcier is currently a pedagogical consultant for the Équipe-choc First Nations and Inuit (FNI), and has previously worked for three years at RÉCIT FNI and nearly two years at Carrefour FGA. Prior to that, she was a French teacher at AGE and a bookstore manager. She has also had the opportunity to develop several projects related to training and employability. Julie is passionate about metacognition and the development of cross-curricular competencies. She is excited to collaborate on this project, which will undoubtedly give AGE and VT students the opportunity to actively reflect on who they are as individuals, learners, and citizens. 

Giovanna (aka Joanne) Salvagio is a mother, coach, teacher, consultant and lifelong learner. She has been a RECIT consultant with the Regional Service in General Adult Education since 2019, initially supporting the Anglo network, recently supporting the First Nations and Inuit communities in Quebec with digital pedagogy. Joanne began her journey in education as teacher at the EMSB in 2010, teaching a myriad of courses including English DBE, CCBE, and a variety of options courses, at the same time she was a content specialist in Early Childhood Education for RAC track at Champlain Regional College. In 2017 she became the Technology Lead Teacher for the EMSB, supporting its six (6) Adult Ed. Centers, which lead to the expansion of joining the Recit.