Category Archives: Administrators (principals, superintendants & directors)

Inclusion 2020 was a tremendous success with over 200 people attending each day to learn and connect with their A&CE colleagues. Thank you so much to all who participated!

Here are some highlights:

• Pre-conference – Five well-attended all-day sector workshops were held for PLAR/Guidance, ESL/FSL, LBS, PSW and International Languages. Thank you to the CESBA committee members who organized and hosted!
  
• Conference
  • Our full-day A&CE learning event included an inspiring keynote by Anthony McLean, 20 workshops, sponsor networking, student performances from Centre d’Excellence Artistique de l’Ontario, and more!
    
  • Our wonderful co-hosts, Ben Vallati, Superintendent from Ottawa Catholic and CESBA’s Executive Director, Bernadette Beaupre kept everything on track.
    
  • And at the end of the day, Paul Cox from Waterloo Catholic DSB was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for his dedication to adult and continuing education. Congratulations, Paul!

We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all the presenters, volunteers and conference committee members. Thank you also to our conference sponsors, including EduTravel, Niagara College and The Bridge. Please check out the video from our multi-year sponsor EduTravel about the experiential and online learning opportunities they offer. Visit www.edutravelforcredit.com to learn more about 2021 EduTravel programs.

Conference Prizes and Offers

Thank you so much to all the fabulous prize donors at the conference and congratulations to all the winners!

Our top prizes went to Jodi McDonald from Bluewater DSB who won an improv workshop for nine with The Yes Men, Jocelyne Leclair from CSC du Nouvel-Ontario who won 12 leadership coaching sessions from escouadeÉDU, and Lucy Blosser from York Region DSB who won a cooking class for nine with One Blonde Chef.

Check this out > Gillian from One Blonde Chef has also offered an exclusive discount to CESBA members for a team building cooking class.

For more on our 2020 conference, visit 2020.cesba.com

CESBA and all of our community partners send virtual best wishes and hugs to Hanne Nielson, retiring Superintendent of Simcoe County District SB!  Hanne and her husband are off to PEI once she is finishes in December of this year. Hanne worked with SCDSB for 30 years and 20 were in Adult and Continuing Education.

Hanne and her mighty team at Simcoe County developed and shared numerous best practice resources, strategies, professional development approaches, research, curriculum and marketing materials and much more with CESBA members and the field for many years. 

Her ability to innovate and solve problems in a creative ways are endless. Her board was one of the first to develop integrated programs at sites in her catchment area, so that students could seamlessly move between programs and experiment with various career pathways. Students can access services from multiple programs and move to others such as adult literacy, adult credit, ESL for adults and employment services.

Join us in wishing Hanne many new, big adventures in Canada’s smallest province, PEI!

Bernadette, Executive Director