Board of Directors
Composed of distinguished leaders of business, education, health, academia, early child development communities, and private citizens from across Canada, the Board of Directors is responsible for the management of the property and business of the Council for Early Child Development Inc. It reviews, advises, and approves all Council staff activities. Members of the Board also participate in Council events, committees, and community visits.
President
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DirectorsKelly CameronVolunteer Resource Manager(Nova Scotia) Tom CarsonSenior Fellow and Director of the Winnipeg OfficeCanada West Foundation Dr. Margaret ClarkeChair, Fraser Mustard Chair in Childhood Development;Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry
Jim Grieve
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President
Dr. Clyde Hertzman
Director
Human Early Learning Partnership
(British Columbia)
Dr. Hertzman is Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), the College for Interdisciplinary Studies at UBC; Canada Research Chair in Population Health and Human Development; Professor in Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at UBC; and Associate Director of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR).
Under Dr. Hertzman's leadership, HELP (est. 2001) has developed into an internationally recognized and unique research network that integrates the behavioural and social sciences with biomedical sciences to study life course development, with a particular focus on early child development. HELP's core partnership comprises over 200 faculty, graduate students and researchers from BC's six universities. Funded in part by the BC Ministry of Children & Family Development, HELP works closely with government and communities to understand how different environments contribute to different developmental outcomes for children.
Dr. Hertzman serves as Principal Investigator of the Provincial Early Child Development (ECD) Mapping Unit, the Child & Youth Developmental Trajectories Research Unit, and the Population Health and Learning Observatory. In 2005, HELP was designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the Knowledge Hub on Early Child Development, and Dr. Hertzman is Team Leader of the Knowledge Hub and the global Knowledge Network.
Nationally, Dr. Hertzman is a fellow of the Experience-based Brain and Biological Development Programme and the Successful Societies Programs of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIfAR).
Dr. Hertzman has been involved with many scholarly committees and consultancies. He serves as an Advisory Board Member, Institute of Population and Public Health, Canadian Institute for Health Research; Governing Council Member and Team Leader, Measurement and Monitoring, Centre of Excellence in Early Child Development; Member, BC Provincial Child Care Council; and Advisor, BC Minister of State for Child Care. He holds an honorary appointment at the Institute for Child Health, University College, London.
Dr. Hertzman's early research with CIfAR has been fundamental to the development of the early child development strategy for Canada. Through his work with CIfAR, Dr. Hertzman played a central role in developing the conceptual framework for the determinants of health as well as elucidating the special role of early childhood development as a determinant of health.
Dr. Hertzman has led the development of the provincial implementation of the Early Development Instrument, which measures children's state of development at kindergarten along five domains of development: physical health and well-being, social competence, emotional maturity, language and cognitive development, and communication and general knowledge. As a result, BC is now the first jurisdiction in the world that has maps of early development that can illuminate the relationships between vulnerability patterns and socioeconomic conditions for every neighbourhood and school district in the province.
Chair
Dr. Robin C. Williams
Medical Officer of Health
Niagara Region
(Ontario)
A pediatrician and a public health physician, Dr. Williams has been the Medical Officer of Health for Niagara Region since 1995. A native of Niagara Falls, she has remained dedicated to improving the health status of all residents, with a special focus on children, throughout her career.
Dr. Williams leads a staff of over 600 public health professionals and support staff with a budget of $61.8 million. The Niagara Region has 420,000 residents, living in rural and urban settings, across twelve municipalities.
In her capacity as Medical Officer of Health, she is responsible for health protection and health promotion, which includes areas as diverse as communicable disease control, food safety, enforcement of the Smoke-Free By-Law, administration of Land Ambulance Services and Emergency Measures response.
As a member of the Expert Panel on SARS and Infectious Disease Control (Walker Panel), Dr. Williams has been intimately involved in identifying the “lessons learned” and recommending changes to enhance emergency preparedness throughout the healthcare infrastructure of Ontario.
Dr. Williams has a long time interest in children and is a Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University and is a founding member of Fraser Mustard’s Council for Early Child Development. She is dedicated to improving the outcomes of children’s physical and emotional health, and their learning capacities through proven family and community interventions.
Past Chair
Charles Coffey, OC
(Ontario)
Charlie Coffey is a native of Woodstock, New Brunswick where he started his career with RBC. Amongst his appointments at RBC, Coffey has led business banking in Canada for five years, and also headed three regional headquarters: Manitoba, Metro Toronto and Ontario.
Throughout his banking career, Coffey has made community leadership a priority. He especially enjoys interacting with young people, entrepreneurs, and aboriginal peoples, as well as investing time in projects and programs that help make a difference, including the "national children's agenda." Coffey's efforts on behalf of aboriginal peoples extend well beyond the parameters of his association with RBC. Former Grand Chief Phil Fontaine and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs named Charlie Coffey an Honourary Chief for his support of First Nations and their goals of economic development and self-sufficiency.
Charlie Coffey's leadership, proven record and reputation in private, public and not-for-profit sectors across the country, has resulted in several appointments and special honours.
Coffey is chair, national advisory council, Canadian Museum for Human Rights; co-chair Champions, Aboriginal Human Resource Development Council of Canada; vice chair, National Aboriginal Economic Development Board; past co-chair, Commission on Early Learning and Child Care for the City of Toronto; member, governor, The Canadian Council of Christians and Jews and a director of: Arctic Children and Youth Foundation and the Canadian Journalism Foundation.
Coffey accepted the Canadian Women's International Business Initiative Award from the Canadian Embassy in the United States for RBC's outstanding support of businesswomen. He received the Order of St. Michael from St. Michael's College School (Toronto), the Award of Distinction from the Public Affairs Association of Canada and the Humanitarian Award for Community Service from Yorktown Family Services (Toronto). An amphitheatre in the Canada Student Residences at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel will be named in Coffey's honour. Charlie Coffey was appointed an Officer to the Order of Canada in 2004.
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Vice-chairs
Janet Austin
CEO
YWCA Vancouver
(British Columbia)
As CEO of the YWCA of Vancouver, Janet Austin has overall responsibility for one of BC's largest and most
diversified non-profit organizations, offering services for 43,000 people annually in more than 30 locations
throughout the Lower Mainland. Prior to joining the YWCA of Vancouver Janet served as Executive Director
of Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland. She has also served as Director of Development Services for BC Housing,
where she oversaw the development of the Province's social housing for seniors and families, as well as
transition housing, homeless shelters, and group homes for people with disabilities.
Janet has also been active as a community volunteer serving in Board and volunteer positions with the Dr. Peter
AIDS Foundation, MOSAIC, the United Way of the Lower Mainland, the City of Vancouver Women's Task Force and
the BC SPCA. She currently serves on the Honorary Advisory Board of Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland, the Blue
Ribbon Council on Vancouver Business Climate, the Board of the BC Women's Health Research Institute, the UBC
President's Strategic Council, the UBC Steering Committee on Community Service Learning, the BCIT Non-profit
and Fund Development Program Advisory Committee, the Leadership Vancouver Advisory Committee, the Active
Communities Initiative Council of Partners, and the organizing Committee for the National Retreat for Women.
She is also a weekend puppy-sitter for assistance dogs in training with the Pacific Assistance Dogs Society. As
well, she is a recipient of the Queen's Jubilee Medal for Community Service.
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Senior Associate Dean, Strategic Development & External Relations
Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia
(British Columbia)
Dr. Frieda Granot received her BSC in Mathematics (cum laude) and her MSc in Computer Science from the
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, an interdisciplinary PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science, and
Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Granot’s research is interdisciplinary, focussing on theoretical and applied aspects of such subjects as
applied mathematics, mathematical programming, game theory, and network flows. She is the author and
co-author of over 50 publications in top peer-reviewed journals.
She joined University of British Columbia's Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration (now the Sauder
School of Business) in 1975. Over the years she has held a number of positions within UBC, including Dean of
the Faculty of Graduate Studies. In 2006 she became the Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Development and
External Relations in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Granot is the winner of the Faculty of Commerce Academic Research Excellence Prize (1998), the Golden
Jubilee Medal (2002), and the YMCA Woman of Distinction Award in the Education, Training, and Development
category (2006).
Secretary and Treasurer
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Dr. Frieda Granot
Dr. Ruth Collins-Nakai
Health Care/Post Secondary Education/Research Consultant;
Chief Medical Officer, Valens Pharma Ltd.
(Alberta)
Pediatric and adult congenital cardiologist Ruth Collins-Nakai was born in southern Alberta. She graduated from
the University of Alberta medical school in 1972, and after interning at McGill, returned to Alberta for pediatric
training, followed by a cardiology fellowship at Harvard University, then more recently, an MBA (1998), and corporate
director's training (2007-2008).
Dr. Collins-Nakai has worked in such roles as Commissioner on the Premier's Commission on Future Health Care
for Albertans, President of the Alberta Medical Association, the President of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society
(first woman), President of the InterAmerican Society of Cardiology (first woman) and as one of the founding members
of the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and more recently, President of the Canadian
Medical Association.
In 2001 the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences awarded her its Distinguished Achievement Award
for promoting cardiovascular education and research throughout the world and in 2005 was recognized as one of
Alberta's 100 Physicians of the Century. In 2007 she was awarded the YWCA's Women of Distinction Lois E. Hole's
Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2008 the Canadian Medical Association's Medal of Service.
The energy, compassion, intellect and leadership Dr. Collins-Nakai generates are not confined to Medicine. She has
been a strong supporter of the need for education and science in Alberta and has worked to increase research
funding overall in Canada. Whether serving a major charity such as the Muttart Foundation in its quest for better lives
for children and a more effective charitable sector, or in her role as Vice-Chair on the Board of Governors for Grant
MacEwan College, Ruth contributes to her community.
Dr. Collins-Nakai's is married to Dr. S.S. (Nick) Nakai, retired from cardiovascular-thoracic surgeon. They have
two grown children.
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Dr. John Hamm
Physician
Former Premier of Nova Scotia (1999-2006)
Born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Dr. John Hamm holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of King's
College, and a medical degree from Dalhousie University. For 30 years, Dr. Hamm worked as a family
physician in his hometown, serving for a time as the president of the Nova Scotia Medical Society. In 1993
he entered provincial politics, becoming a Member of the House of Assembly for Pictou Centre riding. Dr.
Hamm served as Premier of Nova Scotia from 1999 to 2006. He has been a strong advocate for improved
health care both in Nova Scotia and across Canada. In 1995 Dr. Hamm became the leader of the Progressive
Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. In 1999 the party was elected and Dr. Hamm became the Premier of Nova
Scotia, a position in which he would serve until 2006, when he retired from politics. Dr. Hamm now acts as
Chairperson of Assisted Human Reproduction Canada.
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Directors
Kelly Cameron
Volunteer Resource Manager
(Nova Scotia)
From a family of ten, Kelly Cameron was raised in Woodstock, New Brunswick, and has been a resident of Nova
Scotia since 1970. Kelly Cameron is an advocate for children and children’s health, with a passion for health ethics,
biomedical research ethics, and participants’ rights. She currently serves as a lay member with the Research Ethics
Board of the Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre (IWK) and was a lay member with the National Council Bioethics in
Human Research (1994-1999).
Mrs. Cameron has a lifelong commitment to volunteer leadership with a particular interest in the health field. She served on the IWK Governance Board for over 12 years (1988-2000) during which she chaired Audit, External Partnerships and By Laws Committees as well as served on the Board Executive. A past president and life member of the IWK Auxiliary, Mrs. Cameron has volunteered at the IWK since 1978. She has also served on several community boards, including the Board of Ronald McDonald House, Halifax.
Holding certification with Canadian Administrators of Volunteer Resources, she recently retired as the Director of Volunteer Resources and Public Relations in a long term care facility. There she doubled the adult volunteer body, and initiated a VOLUNTEEN program creating an intergenerational exchange which received provincial recognition. She has written discussion papers on such issues as the changing profile of the volunteer, the teenaged volunteer in long term care, and the co-opted volunteer; and presented regular education sessions to school students, service groups, and organizations on the role of long-term care in the community.
Ms. Cameron has been happily married to Hugh Scott Cameron for 40 years and is the proud mother of 2, mother-law of 2 and grandmother of 3 toddlers. She is committed to seeking equity from the start for all children.
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Tom Carson
Senior Fellow and Director of the Winnipeg Office
Canada West Foundation
(Manitoba)
Tom Carson graduated form the University of Manitoba in 1971 with an undergraduate degree in Arts to pursue a 31-year career in the civil service of the Province of Manitoba. He served as Deputy Minister of three departments over a period of 14 years: Culture, Heritage and Tourism; Training and Continuing Education; and Health. Mr. Carson brought a passion to three roles respecting more equitable population health outcomes, beginning with the early years. He continues to be a frequent speaker on population health and health disparity, and pursues a consulting practice on workplace health, healthy public policy, and population equity.
He resides in his home province of Manitoba where he serves on the advisory boards of a number of the University of Manitoba’s research institutes; the Manitoba Centre on Aging (where he chairs the advisory board), the Health, Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, and as an associate to the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy.
He also serves on a number of community-based organizations such as Manitoba Artists for Health, the Winnipeg Arts Council, The Arts and Cultural Industries Association of Manitoba, The Manitoba Theatre Centre Endowment Campaign, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery Foundation.
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Douglas Stollery is general counsel of PCL Constructors Inc. and serves as a director, corporate secretary and
member of the executive committee of PCL Construction Holdings Ltd. He graduated with an LL.B. from the
Faculty of Law of the University of Alberta in 1976 and with an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1980.
Following a clerkship with the Honourable Mr. Justice Ronald Martland of the Supreme Court of Canada, he was
admitted to the Alberta Bar in 1977. Doug practiced with the firm of Reynolds Mirth Richards & Farmer LLP for a
period of almost 30 years before joining PCL Constructors Inc. in 2006. He has a broad range of experience in
business and construction law. He is a fellow of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers and has appeared
before all levels of the courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
Doug has been actively involved in the Canadian Bar Association and has served as President of the Canadian Bar
Association - Alberta Branch. For many years he served as a sessional lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University
of Alberta and continues to be a regular speaker at legal conferences. His volunteer service on behalf of the legal
profession also includes serving as a director of the Legal Education Society of Alberta and the Alberta Law Reform
Institute, as co-chair of the Canadian Bar Association - Supreme Court of Canada Liaison Committee and as a member
of the Federal Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee.
Doug is also actively involved as a volunteer in community organizations and currently serves as a member of the
board of directors of the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation and the Stollery Charitable Foundation. He has
also served as President of the Victoria School Foundation for the Arts, Vice-Chair of the Grant MacEwan College
Board of Governors and director of Grant MacEwan College Foundation.
Recent awards include the Suzanne Mah Award for outstanding leadership in promoting human rights principles
and ideals in the practice or teaching of law (Alberta Human Rights Commission) and the Eileen Nash Award for
providing support to charities and charitable causes to enhance the quality of living for under-privileged people in the
Edmonton area (Edmonton Bar Association).
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Bill Tholl
Executive Director
Canadian Health Leadership Network
Bill Tholl is a respected senior executive, with extensive experience in health policy, planning and financing. He currently
serves as the founding Executive Director, Canadian Health Leadership Network, an organization committed to doing a
better job of ‘identifying, developing, supporting and celebrating excellence in health leadership'. Bill is also a founding
partner of Canadian Policy Network, "a think and act" tank associated with the University of Western Ontario. He is an
associate faculty member at Royal Roads University and is a lecturer in health leadership, policy & economics at the
University of Ottawa.
Bill has served in a series of senior executive positions, including as Chief Executive Officer and Secretary General of the
Canadian Medical Association (2001-2008) and as Executive Director, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (1995-2001).
Bill is a builder. Over the years, he has been instrumental in launching or advancing a number of major national health
programs in the areas of health insurance (Canada Health Act), technology assessment (Canadian Coordinating Office
of Technology Assessment), food and nutrition (Health Check), health research (Canadian Institutes for Health Research),
health advocacy (Health Action Lobby or ‘HEAL'); health information (Canadian Institute for Health Information) and, most
recently, health leadership (Canadian Health Leadership Network). The Globe and Mail has referred to Bill as
"Medicare's Mr. ‘Fix-it'"
He is the recipient of a number of awards, including most recently, Canadian Economics Association, Harry Johnson
Research Paper of the Year Award (2000); the Pioneer Award as Cofounder of the Health Charities Council of Canada (2001);
and the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal (2003) for his work in the voluntary sector.
Bill has a graduate degree in health economics from the University of Manitoba and has served as President of his national
professional association (CHERA, 1986-1991). He has numerous peer-reviewed publications in the fields of health policy
and economics and leadership. He also serves or has served on a number of public and private (voluntary and for-profit)
Boards or Task Forces and recently received his Institute of Corporate Directors Designation (ICD.D).
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Hon. Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
Former Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick (1997-2003)Retired Canadian Senator, the Honourable Marilyn
Trenholme Counsell, physician, politician, lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick and a Senator, grew up in the
coastal village of Baie Verte, New Brunswick. She received her high school education at the Port Elgin Regional
Memorial School, earned a Bachelor of Science degree (magna cum laude) in Home Economics at Mount Allison
University, followed by a Master of Arts degree (cum laude) from the University of Toronto in 1960. The Hon.
Trenholme Counsell earned the degree of Doctor of Medicine (cum laude) in 1967, also from the University of Toronto.
Dr. Stuart Shanker
Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology/Philosophy;
Director, Milton & Ethel Harris Research Initiative
York University
(Ontario)
Stuart Shanker is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at York University. He was educated
at Oxford, where he obtained a First in PPE and won the Marian Buck Fellowship at Christ Church, where he obtained a
First in a B Phil in Philosophy and a D Phil with Distinction in Philosophy. Among his awards are a Canada Council
Doctoral Fellowship and Postdoctoral Fellowship; a Calgary Institute for the Humanities Fellowship; a University of Alberta
Mactaggart Fellowship; an Iszaak Walton Killam Fellowship; and the Walter L. Gordon Fellowship at York University. He has
received many grants, among them a $5,000,000 grant from the Harris Steel Foundation to establish the Milton and Ethel
Harris Research Initiative (MEHRI), a state-of-the-art cognitive and social neuroscience institute at York University. Prof.
Shanker and the Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative are involved in a number of different studies looking at the
processes involved in the development of language and reflective consciousness in young infants; studies in evolutionary
theory involving nonhuman primates; and clinical studies designed to significantly enhance the capacities of children with
various types of impairment. In addition to serving as Director of MEHRI, Dr. Shanker is Past President of the Council of Early
Child Development. He is also Director of the Cuba-Mexico-Canada Research Initiative, an international, multi-disciplinary
investigation into preventative mental health (funded by IDRC of Canada).
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Douglas R. Stollery, Q.C.
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Dr. Margaret Clarke
Chair, Fraser Mustard Chair in Childhood Development;
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry
Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary
(Alberta)
Dr. Margaret Clarke has devoted her career to improving and enhancing the lives of children, youth and families.
After receiving her medical degree from McMaster University in 1984, she completed her training in Paediatrics
and Developmental Paediatrics at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. Dr. Clarke is currently the Division Chief of
Developmental Paediatrics for the Calgary Health Region, a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Departments
of Paediatrics and Psychiatry and is the Fraser Mustard Chair in Childhood Development at the University of
Calgary.
Dr. Clarke teaches and supervises many undergraduate and graduate students from medicine, nursing,
psychology and education. She has designed new educational programs for physicians, judges and others in
areas such as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Attention Deficit Disorder. She chaired the AMA Committee that
developed the first Clinical Practice Guidelines on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) in Canada.
Dr. Clarke is helping to guide a new agenda for child development by serving on the National Expert Advisory
Committee on the Centres of Excellence for Children’s Well-Being and the Board of the Alberta Centre for Child,
Family and Community Research.
Dr. Clarke is well known for starting and maintaining interdisciplinary collaborations that promote wellness in all
children and also provide early identification for those who are at risk for developing health problems. She has
developed outreach services in programs for children with disabilities, elementary schools and women’s shelters
in Calgary and Southern Alberta. She has been instrumental in the development of community focused programs at
the Alberta Children’s Hospital including the Down Syndrome Clinic and the Autism Early Intervention program. She
was recently named one of the 100 top physicians of the century by the Alberta Medical Association and received a
Centennial Medal in recognition of her unique contributions to the field of child health and development in Alberta.
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Jim Grieve
Assistant Deputy Minister, Early Years Division
Ministry of Education
(Ontario)
Before joining the Ontario Ministry of Education, Jim Grieve was the Director of Education for the Peel District School Board,
one of North America's largest and fastest growing public school systems. Jim served as Director of Education in Ontario
from 1998 to 2009. His career includes outstanding teaching and leadership roles in Peel, North York, and Ottawa. He holds
a masters degree from the University of Toronto, undergraduate degrees from York and U of T as well as supervisory officer,
principal and other professional certifications.
As a family physician, Trenholme Counsell practised in Toronto on the staff of the Toronto General Hospital, and in Sackville and Port Elgin on the staff of the Sackville Memorial Hospital. She also worked as a nutritionist for the
governments of New Brunswick and Ontario and, during her early years in Toronto, as a freelance journalist.
In 1987, Trenholme Counsell began her political career. That year she was elected to the New Brunswick legislature. From 1994 to 1995 she was the Minister of State for the Family. In 1997 she was appointed Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.
In 1997 Trenholme Counsell was installed as New Brunswick's 28th Lieutenant Governor. Her term concluded in 2003. That same year she was named to the Senate, where she served until her retirement in 2008. As a Senator, she led a study on early childhood education and care which produced the report Early Childhood Learning and Care in Canada: Next Steps.
Trenholme Counsell is currently teaching "Political Leadership in Canada" at Mount Allison University and serves as the President of the Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick.
Trenholme-Counsell's many awards include Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Dame of Grace of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Fellowship NB College of Craft and Design, Hassadah-Wizo Organization of Canada, National Adult Literacy Database Award and Paul Harris Fellow; Honorary Life Memberships Canadian Mental Health Association, Fredericton Garrison Club, Fredericton Society of Saint Andrew, Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, NB Medical Society, NB Scottish Cultural Association, NB Teachers' Association, Order of the Eastern Star, Royal Canadian Legion, Stepping Stone Centre and York-Sunbury Historical Society; and International Toastmaster's Award, U.N. Year of the Family Award, Canada 125 Medal, Queen's Golden Jubilee medal, Order of New Brunswick in 2008 and the CMA Sir Charles Tupper Award in 2009.
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Ted Whiteland
Executive Director
British Columbia Principals and Vice-Principals Association
(British Columbia)
Ted Whiteland is currently the Executive Director of the British Columbia Principals and Vice-Principals Association.
Ted began his teaching career as an intermediate classroom teacher in the former Leeds and Grenville County
Board of Education, now the Upper Canada District School Board. After a two-year secondment to the board office
as a Junior Division Resource teacher, he began the administrative portion of his teaching career as a vice-principal.
He has since served as a principal in several schools over the past 20 years.
Ted has assumed leadership positions in many professional activities during his thirty-four year education career:
leading workshops; administering and teaching Ministry of Education Courses; and curriculum development. While a
member of the Ontario Public School Teachers' Federation, Ted served his colleagues as provincial chair of the
Positions of Added Responsibilities Committee. He has also had many leadership roles in the Ontario Principals'
Council since the organization's beginnings. Ted served as the provincial President during the 2003-04 school year.
He also served as the President Elect of the Canadian Association of Principals.
Several volunteer organizations have been able to take advantage of Ted's expertise and leadership, especially in the
areas of child welfare and children's mental health. He has served on many community committees and work groups
focused on assisting children and families overcoming obstacles. Ted led the development of the Ontario Principal's
Council Learning Foundation and currently holds the position of Chair.
Ted holds a B.A. from the University of Waterloo and a M.Ed. from Queen's University.
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