Learning Opportunities

Tammy Leslie has been an educator for over 30 years. She spent 23 years teaching in Grades 1 through 6 and the past 8 years as an Elementary Math Consultant with Edmonton Catholic Schools. As a consultant, Tammy had multiple opportunities to work with many individuals both within and outside the division; including consultants, administrators, teachers and students to provide ongoing support and guidance in developing and deepening best math practices in inclusive communities. 

Tammy is passionate about math and numeracy. Her goal, as a Learning Facilitator with ERLC,  is to support educators in their continued efforts to understand and address the need for impactful strategies in math and numeracy. She believes in a collaborative approach model with teachers as leaders, where we can work ON practice, IN practice. She aims to co-construct meaningful professional learning to guide instruction and maximize student learning.

Tammy Leslie has been an educator for over 30 years. She spent 23 years teaching in Grades 1 through 6 and the past 8 years as an Elementary Math Consultant with Edmonton Catholic Schools. As a consultant, Tammy had multiple opportunities to work with many individuals both within and outside the division; including consultants, administrators, teachers and students to provide ongoing... Read more »

With 30 years of experience, Candace Ketsa has taught from Kindergarten to Adult Education with the majority of her years with high school and junior high school aged students.
Although she has taught physical education, coding and sciences, her passion and education is in mathematics. She started her career in H. A. Kostash, then Radway, Alexis Elementary, Jr. & Sr. High School, Yellowhead Tribal College, Storefront School, Vincent J. Maloney and finally St. Gabriel Education Center.
She has taught high school math with experience in both a traditional setting and online learning, but really embraced building numeracy skills with junior high math students.
Within these years of teaching, she was also seconded to write resources for ERLC and Alberta Education and last year was the Numeracy Lead teacher for Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools helping Division 1 teachers implement, and the Division 2 teachers pilot the new Mathematics curriculum.
This year she is excited to return to teach high school math and physics with St. Gabriel Education Center half time while working with the ERLC.

With 30 years of experience, Candace Ketsa has taught from Kindergarten to Adult Education with the majority of her years with high school and junior high school aged students.
Although she has taught physical education, coding and sciences, her passion and education is in mathematics. She started her career in H. A. Kostash, then Radway, Alexis Elementary, Jr. & Sr. High... Read more »