Over the last five years, there has been a massive increase in the amount of resources available for officiating development in British Columbia. This process has ebbed and flowed over time but recently, there has been marked improvement. Not only have associations begun to recognize that officiating is integral to the game but they understand their own roles in improving the quality of their officials. While investment at the association level is limited by the means of their membership, the improvement has been noticeable across the board.
This new reality has led to a need to measure and quantify the success of officiating development programs. An association’s board is accountable to its members for all expenditures.
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PROJECTS
Click below to read about the projects that I am currently pursuing. I am currently working on multiple projects in the areas of coaching and leadership and curriculum development.
BLOG
Click below for a portfolio of my writing on coaching and officiating, some of my academic writing on history and literature, as well as my current blog posts on literature and music.
OSMH
The On-Side Mental Health project shares stories from officials who have struggled with their mental health at some point in their life. The goal is to help remove the stigma from having day-to-day conversations about mental health.
TEACHING
Click below for my teaching blog. I am currently on hiatus from teaching but was most recently with the Vancouver School Board, teaching courses in English Language Arts, English Language Learning, Social Studies, and Career-Life Education.
ABOUT ME
I am an experienced educator with eight years of professional experience in coaching and mentorship with a focus on hockey officiating. I have worked in program development and management, with a focus on leadership training and development. I have also worked with curriculum development and implementation, with an interest in technology-based learning environments. After several years of classroom teaching with the Vancouver School Board, I have recently joined Hockey Canada in the role of Manager, Officiating, overseeing Hockey Canada's programming from coast to coast to coast.
My research interests include coaching and leadership, pedagogy of sport, analytics and gap analysis, technology-based learning environments, curriculum development, social studies and English language arts curriculum and pedagogy, post-colonial literature, music as cultural expression, diasporic history, history of indigenous contact, Afro-American history, and legal and constitutional history.