Committed to enabling students to fully enjoy their living environment at school

Just imagine for one moment that you could go back in time to your high school years and were given the right to choose your teachers. You would be given the curriculum vitae of each one, and your attention would be drawn to the one-page résumé of personal development teacher Fabrice Bouly, at the bottom of which there is a list of his personal interests: teaching, pirates, human cannonballs, sewing, tightrope walking, cinema, Halloween, psychology, philosophy, useless yet interesting things, old LPs… You’d definitely select him and no doubt say to yourself that the year will be anything but boring.
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Committed to helping teenagers make informed and stimulating career choices

Teenagers have to make some difficult choices and opting for one career rather than another is most certainly one of the hardest on the list. Aware that young people need the proper tools when it comes to choosing their future, Marie-Josée Sauvé, the guidance counsellor at Polyvalente de St-Jérôme, is always concocting new schemes to help special needs students discover what really makes them tick. Visits and workshops at skilled trade schools, horticultural projects, the creation of necklaces, soap and paper, every idea is worthwhile as long as it helps in achieving the ultimate goal of encouraging young people to find their path.
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Committed to using his experience to pass on his taste for commitment to young people

“A drop of water won’t change the colour of the ocean but it can have an influence on the drops around it.” In proclaiming these words, Brahim El Fadil, a science teacher at the École internationale Saint-Edmond in Greenfield Park, simply wishes to ignite a spark of commitment in the person who hears them. When pursuing his studies, he was highly committed himself, among other things in the fight for human rights, the condition of women and social injustice, and he has made it his duty to show his students that by taking concerted action, you can make a difference. Whether it’s visiting senior citizens, doing his part on Earth Day or participating in the Marche 2/3, Brahim El Fadil’s commitment is characterized by his desire to raise awareness of social solidarity.
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Committed to making high school an enriching experience

“I love teenagers,” Isabelle Gendron, a Secondary 4 and 5 maths teacher at Collège Mont-Royal, spontaneously admits. “Young people have lots of resources and when you get involved with them, you get to see their true colours and you can learn from them.” When you listen to Isabelle Gendron speaking like this, you quickly realize that her students’ energy is what really makes her tick. To see young people evolving, forging ahead, discovering life both here and elsewhere is a source of fascination and this is what motivates her to give generously of her time.
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Committed to helping students be more open to the world

“I am strongly attached to my living and working environments. I believe that school is a place for learning how to surpass oneself. I think that each and every student should be given the chance to participate in stimulating experiences that will allow them to progress and become more open to the world,” asserts Anie Belleville, a Secondary 3 French teacher. She never hesitates to do everything she can to provide her students with new and appealing challenges. Over the years, she has taught them to discover the world thanks to literature but also by organizing trips abroad, trips that every time allow them to grow.
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Committed to enabling young people to discover a taste for surpassing themselves

While a number of young people still believe that they can instantly succeed at everything, it is reassuring to see that there are still people who teach them that they won’t be able to attain their goals without effort and a fighting spirit. And Renée Rouleau, a teacher in the dance and ballet concentration program at the Collège Sainte-Anne de Lachine, is one of them. British by birth, this great lady of classical dance pulls out all the stops and spares no effort in order to pass on to all her students her passion for “this classical art that breathes life into the very soul of the person who takes part in it.”
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