About me
Tansi, Way' -Weytk, Salut, Greetings!
Stacey is the newest Executive Staff Officer in the Association's Professional Development program area. Stacey holds a Bachelor of Physical Education, Bachelor of Education, a Master’s degree in Integrated Studies and has recently completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Theorizing Curriculum and Teacher Professional Development. Stacey is in her 25th year with Edmonton Public Schools, having previously served as a Consultant within the Comprehensive School Health Unit as part of Student Learning Support Services and is considered the leading expert within Edmonton Public Schools on Physical Literacy. Having started her teaching career at Nipisihkopahk Secondary School in Maskwacis, she has since carried out a variety of roles and responsibilities from classroom teacher status to that of department head, teaching for a brief period of time at l’Université de McGill in Montréal, Québec and with the University of Alberta as a seconded Sessional Professor.
Stacey has grown up as a Franco-Canadienne and concomitant to the Cree, Blackfoot, Okanagan and Anishinaabeg; Kanien'kéha Nation. She presently holds an executive position with the Health and Physical Education Council of Alberta as the Vice-President of Curriculum and Pedagogy. Stacey has had the pleasure of working with Alberta Education on the K-12 Wellness Education draft from 2014-2018 under the NDP government and has co-developed a Nakota Language 10,20,30 curriculum for the Saskatchewan Education Ministry. She has been actively involved in a few projects with the Kitaskinaw Education Authority over the past 5 years: most recently being a part of a small team that developed a Land-Based Learning K-12 program of studies in Cree and English and having run several physical literacy summer camps for junior and senior high school aged students on reserve. It is with great tapahteyimisôstawew before the Maskêkosihk Cree Nation to further the quality of educational opportunities on the land, for its people, and the community at large. Stacey has recently finished summer programming under Movement Academy with the Westbank First Nation and the Okanagan people. Stacey is and will continue to be the dissenting voice in the room and with communities, carrying with her a passion for & about wellbeing and movement as our first literacy. Stacey’s has devoted much time and expertise to ensuring that a comprehensive approach to health and wellbeing has importance in Education, has been made accessible to all children, students, staff and colleagues.