Top, from left to right: Rose Ferjuc, Jeff Reading, Kathy Worobec, James Bartram, Gareth Thomson. Bottom, from left to right: Aaron Dublenko, Noel Jantzie, Deb Rougeau-Bell, Jenn Hoffman, Christina Pickles
ACEE Board, from left to right: Aaron Dublenko, Jeff Reading, Deb Rougeau-Bell, Noel Jantzie, James Bartram, Jenn Hoffman. Absent: Nancy Pollard, Brad Clute
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Jeff Reading is Chair of the ACEE Board and the Director of Business Development at Climate Change Central. He has been an environmental and outdoor educator for close to thirty years, working as a teacher, consultant, and specialist with the Calgary Board of Education. Jeff is a member of the Alberta EcoTrust Foundation’s grant review committee, and has served on numerous Boards including the Global, Environmental and Outdoor Education Council of the Alberta Teachers Association, the Association For Experiential Education, and the safety committee for Outward Bound Canada. His wife, Shelagh, and their children, David and Meghan, share a love of international travel and exploring natural environments together. |
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Nancy Pollard is a grade 7 teacher at Lawrence Grassi Middle School of the Canadian Rockies Public School Division in Canmore. Outdoor and environmental education has been one of her passions over the past 12 years of teaching, and she has implemented and taught many eco-programs and projects to schools in both Australia and Canada. Nancy spends her free time coaching Jackrabbits cross country skiing and coaching mountain biking, going to parent council meetings and working with her husband Guy to get their three children to all the various practices and lessons around town. |
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Brad Clute is the Sustainability Coordinator at Mountain Equipment Coop in Calgary. Under Brad’s leadership MEC Calgary’s sustainability programs have won numerous awards including a provincial Emerald Award and a Calgary Award both for corporate environmental achievement, as well as a Better Business Bureau Business Ethics Award. Their sustainability programs are an example of how businesses can both prosper and have a positive impact on the community and the planet.As well as serving on the board of ACEE, Brad is currently the Vise President of the Calgary Area Outdoor Council, a Director of Make It Good, and a steering committee member for Thrive – Calgary’s Economic Development Network. |
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Jenn Hoffman has been involved in the conservation community for fifteen years, working as a BC Park naturalist and in several US National Parks, including Yellowstone and Yosemite. In 1997 Jenn founded the Sierra Club BC’s Education Program and served as its Director for 10 years. In 2007 Jenn became the Club’s Development Director, implementing a diversified fundraising program that saw a shift to growing their individual donor gifts to augment a foundation and government grants base. When not guiding the efforts of organizations working to save wilderness, Jenn spends her time enjoying it. A world traveler, she has spent time in South and Central America, Africa and India. Jenn lives in Canmore with her husband Stephen and two children, Rio and Silas. |
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Deb Rougeau-Bell Deb has spent the last thirty-four years in education as an elementary school teacher, consultant, assistant principal and principal. For the past ten years, she has been principal at Glenbow School where she and her passionate staff infused environmental education throughout the curriculum with the goal of developing active, responsible, ethical citizens who contribute positively with a universal consciousness and sense of empowerment. Deb’s new role with Rocky View Schools will see her in a consulting role as a leadership mentor and coach for new administrators. Deb lives in Cochrane with her husband Randy where she enjoys golfing, biking and nature in her backyard. She is extremely proud of her two adult children, both of whom work in the healthcare system. |
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James Bartram is the founder and Education Director of the Parks Canada Palisades Stewardship Education Centre and continues to lead the development and implementation of the highly collaborative, youth engagement program. His unique dual position with Parks Canada and Grande Yellowhead Public School Division has included the development of nine Alberta Education locally developed courses in Stewardship Winter Travel and Water and the establishment of aneducation team that delivers multiday nature immersion and video conference programs for high school credit. His experience in the fields of mountain recreation, education and administration have equipped him to contribute as an active practitioner within the North American movement to reconnect youth to nature. |
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Dr. Noel Jantzie is a recently retired teacher with the Calgary Board of Education. He is continuing to provide online professional development to Alberta teachers and periodically works with graduate students as a sessional instructor at the University of Calgary. Recently, he received the distinction of honorary member to the ATA for this contributions to the organization. An avid skier in winter and hiker in summer, he is usually to be found on the side of mountain somewhere in the Rockies, Kootenays, or Okanagan. Noel and his wife live in Calgary and their daughter is currently completing university in B.C. and Washington. |
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Aaron Dublenko is a teacher at Queen Elizabeth High School in Edmonton. Before pursuing a career in education, Dublenko’s passion for the outdoors led him to pursue his first degree in archaeology. After working overseas for a time, Dublenko returned to Canada for his B.Ed. in Social Studies. After some years of focusing on at-risk youth and knowledge & employability classrooms, he went back to complete a M.Ed. in Sustainable Education. Aaron now heads up the Student-Led Initiatives for Sustainable Education (SLISE) at QEHS, and is the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching award, as well as a finalist for the 2012 Alberta Emerald Awards. |
Jeff Reading - Board chair
You can contact ACEE or its Board members c/o Gareth Thomson:
Phone: 403-678-0079
E-mail: gareth at abcee.org
Mail: 911 Larch Place, Canmore, AB. Canada T1W 1S5
