Experience

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  University of toronto

  Jul 2008 - Aug 2022

  Registered early childhood educator
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  Humber college

  May 2011 - Dec 2013

  Teaching faculty

  Prepared and facilitated the required course, Social Justice: Nurturing Communities, for the Early Childhood Education program.

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  Early childhood environment and sustainability education

  May 2012 - now

  Educational consultant

  Workshop Design and FacilitationOutdoor play in the early yearsHigh Park Nature Centre, Toronto, ON, May 2016 and April 2017Ecologies of childhood: Linking place, play and pedagogyGuelph Community Health Centre (CHC), Guelph, ON, May 2017Weaving ecological literacy and outdoor play in early childhoodAffiliated Services for Children and Youth (ASCY), Hamilton, ON, October 2016Ecologies of childhood: Linking place, play and pedagogyEarly Childhood Community Development Centre (ECDCC), St. Catharines, ON, October 2016 Intrinsic Connections: Nature and ecological literacy in early childhoodEarly Childhood Community Development Centre (ECDCC), Thorold, ON, June 2016Wonder-full worlds: Tuning into children's ecological encountersHalton Resource Connection, Winter Re-Charge Conference, Oakville, ON, February 2012Natural interconnections: Ecological literacy in early childhoodHumber ITAL, Places of Natural Discovery Conference, Toronto, ON, May 2011 and May 2012Nature in the city: Reclaiming engagement with urban ecology,York University, Encuentro: Popular Education for Social Change, Toronto, ON, April 2012 Show less

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  Toronto and region conservation authority (trca)

  Aug 2015 - Jan 2019

  Forest school practitioner, the nature school preschool program
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  The child and nature alliance

  Jan 2017 - now

  Facilitator