Retired teacher Julia Poole to run for 性视界传媒 school board

Longtime Fleetwood resident and retired teacher Julia Poole has announced she鈥檚 running for 性视界传媒 school board as an independent in the upcoming Oct. 20 election.

Poole 鈥� who worked as a university professor and as a teacher in both public and private schools over a span of 40 years 鈥� worked as an educator in 性视界传媒 for two decades, and also taught in Finland, China and Japan.

Poole鈥檚 platform calls for an 鈥渆xperienced teacher鈥� on the Board of Education, as well as better supports for students and teachers, and support for academic change and assessment practices.

She also promises to push for more collaboration with city hall, and economic developers, if elected.

According to her website, Poole鈥檚 passion is to 鈥渇ind new and different ways of engaging at-risk students and those who are physically and mentally challenged.鈥�

It notes she has worked with 鈥渟truggling learners to use technology to find ways of developing their learning skills.鈥�

鈥淪he has been involved in athletics for the first years of teaching setting up district programs and co-ordinating shared equipment of larger apparatus which smaller schools could not afford to purchase,鈥� her biography notes.

In 性视界传媒, Poole worked as a district trainer and helped implement technology into the classroom while working with teachers on special projects in non-traditional areas such as music, art, technology education, home economics, math, and science.

Poole also highlights the teacher shortage in 性视界传媒 on her website.

鈥淟ast year, I was told that they needed the retirees to return to help cover the lack of substitute teachers,鈥� she wrote. 鈥淢any teachers lost their prep time to cover classes for teachers who were ill and many did not receive this recovery time by the end of the school year.鈥�

Poole said the 鈥渂iggest challenge in the district as a helping teacher was the funding of support to the classroom.鈥�

鈥淣ot only the equipping of technology in the classroom but the development of new ways of learning and curriculum. This year across the spectrum of all grades, teachers were asked to change their curriculum and ways of assessing. It has created much stress for the classroom teacher as the ministry no longer provides curriculum instruction and guidelines but expects the individual classroom teacher to create this on their own.鈥�

Poole has also volunteered with the YMCA, and current runs an English Conversation Corner for new Canadians in South 性视界传媒.

Click here to see a list of all candidates running in the upcoming election.

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