Photo Credit: Dean Smith
Oldies 100.9 news presents the Vanderlaan Building Excellent Educators Day, profiling outstanding leaders in our community.
It’s an exclusive look into the lives of some of Northumberland’s best and brightest educators, including Dean Smith, an Indigenous education consultant.
Smith went to school at Concordia and McGill, eventually also completing a degree in teaching, he has spent about 30 years, working with the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board.
Smith is a member of the Pictou Landing Mi’kmaq First Nation. He has been an educator for three decades, coached sports in our community, is a musician and helped to start the Kaitlyn Bates Initiative.
The Indigenous education consultant says he’s truly honoured to have been nominated as an excellent educator, but says the most important thing for him is to highlight the messages of kindness, collaboration and support.
Smith also gives thanks to everyone in his life who has formed him into the educator that he is today.
To hear from Dean Smith himself, click the audio link below for our interview:
Excellent Educators Day is proudly supported by:
Vanderlaan Building Products, 13 Loyalist Drive, Brighton. Call 613-475-3684 or visit vanderlaanbuilding.com. Trust Vanderlaan.
Anne Butwell, Realtor, Remax Quinte in Brighton. Buy Well, Sell Well, Butwell. Visit annebutwell.ca for more information.
Philip Lawrence, MP Northumberland-Peterborough-South, thanking our teachers for the work that they do and the challenges they’ve faced this past year. Visit philiplawrencemp.ca.
