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Valerie Allen: Veteran educator takes on new role ValerieAllen, describedas“awomanwho has dedicated her life to education and her community,”has been appointed the Upper Canada District School Board’s superintendent of program and special education. All Means All! Allen says she is looking forward to the challenge.
combined bachelor’s degree in psychology and education, she taught for one year on a Native reserve. In 1988, she took a job with the former Prescott-Russell Board of Educa- tion, starting as a teacher at Plantagenet Public School. She worked for several years as a teacher with the board while studying for her master’s degree in education, which she obtained from the University of Ottawa in 1996. She took a leave of absence from 1999 to 2000 to teach at an international school in Medellin, Colombia. She returned to Upper Canada in 2000 to take the role of vice principal at Rockland Public School, before moving on to the position of principal there in 2002. She be- came principal of Pleasant Corners Public School in 2005, and returned to Rockland as the principal of Rockland District High School for one year before being promoted to system principal for special education and Section 23 in 2009. She was appointed as superintendent of school effectiveness in 2011. about $100,000 in tax payments per month. The new method will have a moderate impact on taxpayers and improve the town- ship’s financial situation, Pitre told council. “In recent months we have had to borrow monies from our bank to cover our regular expenses before our first installment of tax- es,” he wrote in a report to council. “This is in part due to the fact that our reserves are getting smaller and we do not have enough money put aside to cover our accounts re- ceivable and the operating expenses we have during the first few months of the year.”
She is involved in her hometown com- munity of Vankleek Hill, where she still lives. She served as chair of the volunteer committee for the 2011 International Plow- ing Match, continues to volunteer with the Vankleek Hill Fair Board and the Vankleek Hill Fiddle and Step Dance Association, as well as a number of other community ac- tivities. Director David Thomas says that Allen is well-suited to the job. “Her background in special education as well as superinten- dent of school effectiveness gives her a unique perspective on our system and the improvements that must be made to help our system reach our long-term goal of a 90 per cent graduation rate,” says Thomas. “Val works hard and is definitely the right person for the new role.” After graduating from Trent University in 1985, and Queen’s University in 1986 with a Pitre to reduce the number of installments from three to four. Ratepayers will have to pay an interim bill, based on 50 per cent of the 2014 bill, at the end of February, 25 per cent of the final billing at the end of July and the balance at the end of September. Now installments are due in March, June, September and November. The three-installment mode will gener- ate investment revenue of approximately $17,700 at an interest rate of 1.5 per cent, Pitre projects. Ratepayers can still pay their taxes on a monthly basis. The municipality receives
Current superintendent of school ef- fectiveness, Allen will take on the new role September 1. She will be responsible for educational programming, including special education as part of the Upper Canada District School Board’s “Next Level Driven” restructure. “For me, the educational journey has al- ways been about children and learning,” said Allen. “It will be a great honour to work closely with school staff members to have a more direct impact on classroom instruc- tion.” As superintendent of school effective- ness, she is currently responsible for work- ing with schools on operational matters, student learning, and board-wide initia- tives such as the implementation of Full- Day Kindergarten. In her new role she will be working with the principals and system
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staff to design and implement program- ming in our schools supporting the Upper Canada District School Board philosophy of
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