Corrie Ziegler has been an educator for over 39 years. Prior to joining Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium, Corrie served as a teacher, principal, supervisor and director with Edmonton Public Schools, where she led numerous districtwide projects, managed complex teams, and facilitated professional learning sessions on a broad spectrum of topics related to teaching and learning. Corrie has her Master’s degree from the University of Alberta, and was a finalist in Alberta's Excellence in Teaching awards program. Corrie believes in the power of collaboration and has coached numerous learning communities in working together to achieve high levels of engagement and learning for all students
Jean Stiles, Principal of Argyll School, Edmonton Public Schools
P. Jean Stiles is a principal with Edmonton Public Schools in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Jean has been an educator for 35 years with expertise as a teacher, consultant and principal. She has taught and led schools as a principal at all grade levels (1-12). Jean has an extensive background as a consultant working with both adult and student learners. She has a strong skillset for supporting and mentoring beginning teachers, department heads, assistant principals and principals, student leadership and developing authentic student voice. Presently Jean is the principal at an alternative school that supports online programming, home/parent directed education and the Caraway alternative programming that offers a multi-graded, project-based, and thematic approach to teaching and learning. Additionally, Jean is currently engaged in the process of designing and prototyping a Virtual School for the Edmonton Public School Board.
Jean recently defended her Dissertation to receive her PhD in Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. In her thesis “Disrupting School Leadership: A Leadership of Disruption”, Jean engaged with the work of Deleuze and Guattari to imagine and experiment with education reform possibilities against the backdrop of the global neoliberal governance of schools. The work involved developing new leadership imaginaries through international networks of school leaders, teachers and students in a series of thought-in-action/action-in-thought experiments to consider how public education is organized and how it might be disrupted to produce more equitable possibilities in the field of education.
In 2007, Jean received The Learning Partnership’s award of Outstanding Principal. This award recognizes the unique and crucial contributions of principals in publicly funded schools. The National Selection Committee determines 30 Canada’s Outstanding Principals Winners annually.
Catherine Coyne, Principal, St. Albert Public Online School and Director, Curricular Services K-12, St. Albert Public Schools
Catherine principal of St. Albert Public Online School; a school that was created by the district in response to Covid. Catherine will share the lessons learned related to leadership, instruction, pedagogy and supervision in an online school. Catherine’s past history includes working as a Division III AAC Assessment Specialist, sitting on the Alberta Assessment Consortium Board, and was a member of the ERLC Social Studies Regional Team.
Darrin DeForge, Principal, Genesis Online Learning
Darrin DeForge is currently the principal of Edmonton Catholic School Division's newly formed distance learning school, Genesis Online Learning. Darrin has been a principal in Edmonton Catholic Schools for 14 years in a wide variety of demographics, including inner city, high special needs and English Language Learner populations. He opened a new Elementary Junior High School, Corpus Christi, in the fall of 2017. Darrin is a visionary leader that grounds his school vision, mission, goals and priorities in research. His leadership has extended beyond his schools to include Principal Projects in Assessment and Reporting at the Division level and helping to establish Edmonton Catholic Schools new TQS rubric for Human Resource Services.
Terri Reid, Learning Services Curriculum Coordinator, Black Gold School Division
As the Learning Services Curriculum Coordinator for Black Gold School Division, Terri Reid provides support in the areas curriculum, instruction, assessment and professional learning as well as online and blended learning. She has been an integral part of the Division Re-entry planning and implementation and has played a key in establishing a Distance Learning program for over 1500 students this year.