Kristen Collinson
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| I am SO excited to be teaching and learning alongside the staff and students at Seven Oaks Met School. As an educator, I believe in cultivating confidence and enthusiasm for learning through helping students find and explore what they are passionate about. My hope is that after our four years together, my students will be able to see how they can use their interests and passions to address some of the many challenges we face as a society, read more ....
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Advisor
| | I love, love, love teaching here at the Met school! I am extremely passionate about education in general, but I have a particular passion for student-led, inquiry and project-based learning. I thrive in a school like Met, where students and staff alike collaborate to achieve the best possible opportunities for learning. My goal as an educator is to create open-minded, critical thinkers who see themselves as global citizens and lifelong learners. I strive to establish a classroom of active learners who think in the long term. read more.... |
Mahalia Lepage
Advisor
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| I feel truly honoured to be part of the SOMet community, and am excited to know the students and families who are part of it. I have spent the past few years teaching at Met schools. I taught grades 11 and 12 at the Exchange Met School, and completed my education practicum at Seven Oaks Met. Returning to SOMet feels like a full-circle moment. Like many folks at Met, I am a person of many interests: I have a deep appreciation for the arts, theatre, reading and writing, craft, etc. I'm no expert at any of it, but I'm nearly always experimenting, tinkering or playing around with some kind of little creative side project (recent projects: printmaking, sewing, and textile dyeing, and I always have some kind of needle felting / fibre project on the go). Another big source of joy for me is spending time being active in nature. I love hiking, climbing, camping, gardening, and cycling. I'm also a bit of a biology nerd and particularly love to marvel at just how weird and wonderful the natural world is. Before becoming a teacher, I studied biochemistry / genetics, which I mostly use now for the purpose of being really enthusiastic about bugs, lichens, and plants.
I absolutely love that I get to indulge these interests, and learn new ones, alongside students. I am always moved by seeing the things students create, the things they care fiercely about, the humour and ideas they bring to what we do. Met is such a special school where I get to learn from and with everyone, see students nurture their unique interests, and help them figure out how they can be who they are in a way that does good for the world. I really believe that we all have perspectives and identities that offer something valuable, and the most meaningful part of my work as a teacher is to help students identify this for themselves (alongside me as I do the same!).
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Bittany Moniz
Wellness Advisor
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| I am very excited about this new role as wellness advisor here at Seven Oaks Met School. I graduated from the University of Manitoba in 2022 with my bachelor's in Education and Physical Education. I am very passionate about wellness and being active. I played sports as a student here in the Seven Oaks School Division. I played volleyball, and basketball, and was a sprinter for my school’s track team. I believe it is important to encourage young people to be active and find ways to be active outside of school so they can lead active, healthy lifestyles once they graduate high school. I believe being active is not only beneficial for the body but also for the mind and spirit. I try to demonstrate this in my daily life, as well as by being an active member of a rec volleyball team, and by taking classes the gym, weight lifting, and participating in cultural dance.
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