Meet our Staff

Hobbies: You can usually find me in my studio painting, photographing and playing around with ideas on my iPad. I am an avid traveller and love exploring art and cultures around the world. I also enjoy hot yoga, writing, hanging out in cafes and chatting with my art students around the world.

You are the artist of your life. Don’t give the paintbrush to anyone else. – Chriag Arora

Hobbies: When I’m not at work, I love being outdoors in nature, meditating, reading, running, writing, playing sports, and being with friends and family.

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” — Shunryu Suzuki

Hobbies: I love to learn about world cultures, which has led me to travel extensively and teach in many countries such as Ghana, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Laos, and Vietnam. Some of my favourite things include sports, fitness, yoga, cooking, and the beach!

If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you. – Fred DeVito

Hobbies: I find joy in the little things life has to offer, like my interactions with the people I care about. I have a curious mind and am always up for learning something new! Travelling has always been a passion of mine, and my favourite part about it is the rich perspective I gain after immersing myself in a new environment. For me, it is a privilege to work with young people and I often find I learn just as much from my students as they from me!

"Things are only impossible until they're not!" - Jean-Luc Picard

Hobbies: In addition to being an avid reader, I also love painting, hiking, travelling and most importantly playing with my cat. When I'm not enjoying one of these hobbies you can find me cooking up a storm in the kitchen... mostly Italian cuisine!

There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid. - L. Frank Baum

Hobbies: If I’m not exploring nature and learning about local wildlife, I’m probably getting lost in a comic book or manga.

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hobbies: As a certified Trainer and Coach for Baseball Canada, I have come to realize the importance of putting the needs of others first. In my free time, I love hiking, keeping fit and all outdoor activities.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela

Hobbies: I love travelling! My favorite trips have included backpacking through Europe, a backcountry camping adventure in Northern Ontario, and an impromptu road trip down the coast of California. When I am not travelling, I enjoy hiking, visiting with friends and reading. One of my intentions this year is to read 100 books.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vince Lombardi

Hobbies: I enjoy music and movies; coaching soccer and basketball; and playing soccer, hockey, volleyball, and tennis.

Remember that the turtle makes progress the fastest when she sticks her neck out.

Hobbies: In my spare time, you will find me in the gym improving my strength and physique, or in the pool going for a swim. People say I live at the gym. Living a healthy lifestyle is a big part of my life. I also like to read, play video games, and watch retro movies.

Never, never, never give up. – Winston Churchill

Hobbies: I enjoy teaching English and reading.

Failure is my enemy. – Pundit Hari Prashad

Hobbies: My hobbies include travelling the world, cooking and baking – I try at least 3 new recipes a month; fitness and health are passions of mine, and I love to learn. Family and friends are dear to my heart.

The journey of a thousand miles begin with one step. – Lao Tzu

Hobbies: I can always be found in one of two places: in line to get coffee or in line at the movies. I make excellent use of my public library card, Art Gallery of Ontario membership, and r/askreddit. I laugh the loudest at British comedies and I am famous for tying my shoes really quickly.

“Give me knowledge or give me death.” - Kurt Vonnegut

Hobbies: I adore adventure and camping, but love Mother Nature the most. I think nothing could be better than a day filled with exploring the woods, an evening of good conversation with by loved ones around a campfire, and a night of sleeping in a tent beneath a pitch-black sky filled with bright stars.

Tough times never last, but tough people do. - Robert H. Schuller

Hobbies: Avid baseball fan, aspiring theologian

To have another language is to possess a second soul. – Charlemagne

Hobbies: When I am not teaching, I am spending time with my kids, travelling, and quilting.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai

Hobbies: I play ice hockey and am a long track speed skater. I am also a singer and world traveller. I love reading, writing, math, and acting.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus

Hobbies: In my free time I enjoy playing/watching hockey, soccer, listening to music, fishing, and spending time with friends and family.

If you don’t sacrifice for what you want. What you want becomes the sacrifice – Jay Shetty

Hobbies: I love travelling and learning about other cultures. I speak 4 languages and have visited 7 countries and counting! I also enjoy jogging, hiking, and kayaking.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. – Albert Einstein

Hobbies: I enjoy golfing, reading and watching sports on TV.  I have officiated basketball for over 40 years at various levels of competition. 

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. – John Wooden

Hobbies: As much as I love travel and adventure, I also enjoy simple things like a hot cup of coffee and a great book!

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

Hobbies: My hobbies include basketball, biking, mountaineering, travel, hiking, camping, reading, music, and activities in the outdoors.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

Hobbies: I love to travel, try international cuisines, crochet, and take my dog out on epic adventures (to parks).

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou

Hobbies: Travelling, cooking, painting, and scrapbooking

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou

Hobbies: I love to travel and spent two years living in China and travelling all over Asia at the start of my teaching career. Thailand has been my favourite place so far.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis

Hobbies: I like to play basketball, cricket and hockey. Also, I like to spend quality time with my family.

The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.

Hobbies: I love to read all kinds of different books, travel (mostly to warm beachy destinations), watch my son play basketball, and do art with my daughter. 

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney

Hobbies: I love Tiny Home design and builds, travelling, and culinary experiences.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.- Norman Vincent

Hobbies: I love going on walks outdoors, and travelling.

Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care – John C Maxwell

Hobbies: I enjoy watching many sports and playing some as well. I am an avid 10pin bowler and have recently taken up golf – although it hasn’t taken to me yet. I also enjoy watching TV, Disney, and playing video games, especially Mario Kart. I also love spending time with my family, friends and my child, AKA my dog, Goku.

It's up to you how far you go. If you don't try, you'll never know. – Merlin

Hobbies: I love playing lacrosse, going on walks outdoors and spending time at the cottage.

You have not failed unless you have stopped trying.

Hobbies: In my free time, I enjoy going on adventures with my dog, cottage weekends, binge watching shows on Netflix, country concerts, trying new types of food, snowboarding, and spending time with friends and family.

Life is a math equation. In order to gain the most, you have to know how to convert negatives into positives. — Anonymous

Hobbies: I love to travel, I spent a lot of time travelling around Europe when I taught in England for two years. I enjoy board games and paddle boarding.

Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better - Walt Disney

Hobbies: In my free time, I love to play tennis, badminton, listen to music, watch movies and travel as well.

“The future depends on what we do in the present” - Gandhi

Hobbies: I enjoy travelling, canoeing, hiking, basketball and reading a great book.

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Hobbies: Math is both my major and my passion. Outside of the classroom, I enjoy running engineering, robotics and math help clubs. In my spare time, hiking, skiing and spending time with friends make my life complete.

Hobbies: I am very involved with coaching in my community. I have coached softball for 10 years, and I am currently an assistant coach for the University of Windsor fast pitch team. I also love to travel! I have currently been to 10 different countries, and I hope to travel more in the near future.

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi

Hobbies: I love animals, traveling and learning new things!

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela

Hobbies: Inspired by the outdoors, you can always find me planning my next travel adventure or hiking with my sidekick (dog), Bruce! In my spare time I love candle making and spending time with friends!

Hobbies: I love to garden, game, tinker and create

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.” - Francis de Sales

Hobbies: I enjoy reading, crochet, travelling, and watching movies. I also enjoy spending quality time with my family in the great outdoors.

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Joshua J. Marine

Hobbies: I love photography, travelling and learning about new cultures, and cooking!

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today" - Malcolm X

Hobbies: I enjoy quiet walks in the woods, natural history, photography, learning languages, reading nonfiction literature, and pampering my pets and my backyard birds.

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. – Helen Keller

Hobbies: During my free time, I enjoy watching a Netflix series or one my favourite You-tubers (preferably with my hedgehog or one of my two cats with me!)

It matters not what someone is born, but what they will grow to be. – Albus Dumbledore

Hobbies:In my free time, I enjoy downhill skiing, taking in the sights and sounds of nature, visiting museums, reading, doing yoga, attending concerts, hiking and taking road trips. My guilty pleasure is tuning into syndicated journalists.

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." – Marie Curie

Hobbies: I am a coffee enthusiast, proud cat person and music fanatic. I love travelling and enjoy hiking or skiing the mountains on the west coast. You can often find me on my laptop in a coffee shop, and I'm almost always wearing a turtleneck.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan

Hobbies: I love travelling, trying different foods and spending time with my dog!

"The more that you read, the more things you will know; the more that you learn, the more places you'll go" - Dr. Seuss

Hobbies: Outside of the classroom, I can often be found reading, biking or watching the Toronto Maple Leafs or the Toronto Blue Jays.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement – Ken Robinson

Hobbies: I enjoy playing golf and basketball, swimming, and reading.

Do the thing that is hard to do, and the power will come!

Hobbies: I enjoy learning and making art and crafts like calligraphy, painting and embroidery. I have 3 dogs and love walking them and spending time with them.

The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing – Albert Einstein

Hobbies: I love doing puzzles and participating in any kind of escape room experience. I also enjoy curling up with a good book, taking the dog for a walk, and spending time with my family and friends.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela

Hobbies: Travelling, baking, reading

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas Edison

Hobbies: I love studying the stars, playing board games, and painting in my spare time.

When first things are put first, second things don't diminish, they increase. – C.S. Lewis

Hobbies: “I am a Chemistry and Biology nerd! I love learning about them and teaching them both. During my free time I enjoy playing video games and learning to code. I also enjoy woodworking and building all sorts of things for my home!”

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Hobbies: I enjoy being outdoors, photography, drawing, painting and making music, as well as fossil hunting, reading and, my deepest passion of all, writing!

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor is it the more intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. – Charles Darwin

Hobbies: I love playing and watching sports with family and friends, going to concerts, and bingeing Netflix series. I also enjoy spending time at the cottage and exploring new places!

Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right.

Hobbies: I enjoy travelling, reading books, watching movies and television as well as taking my dog for walks.

Success belongs to those who dare to achieve it.

Hobbies: I like to spend my free time painting, doing some creative writing, or reading gripping genre fiction.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. – Isaac Asimov

Hobbies: I volunteer around the city and love to draw! I also always have a stained glass project on the go.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X

Hobbies: When I am not teaching online, I enjoy travelling, reading, cooking, baking cookies, and learning Mandarin.

The expert in anything was once a beginner. – Helen Hayes

Hobbies: I love reading, writing, fishing, hiking, travelling and binge watching Netflix. I even had the opportunity to live and teach in Xinjiang, China for two years.

The path of greatness is different for everyone; you have your own passions, gifts, and talents that will make a positive difference to humanity.

Hobbies: Aside from reading historical fiction books you can find me playing with my dog. When I’m not with my pup, I love travelling, exploring new places, cooking, watching reality TV and learning about new cultures. I’m a huge hockey and football fan and enjoy watching games with friends!

Let your smile change the world, but don’t let the world change your smile. - Anonymous

Hobbies: I play piano and sing in a choir. I also love to read and home school my kids!

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. – Winston Churchill

Hobbies: My hobbies include long-distance running, sewing and spending time with my family.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Hobbies: My hobbies include learning about the world and current events, playing with my dogs, reading comics and playing video games!

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. – Amelia Earhart

Hobbies: I enjoy traveling, reading and sports.

Believe there are no limits but the sky – Cervantes

Hobbies: I’m a huge music fan, so I love going to concerts and checking out live music shows around town whenever I can. In my downtime, I enjoy playing cards or board games with friends and family. I’m also an avid reader and animal lover.

Good things come to those who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.

Hobbies: I enjoy running, skating, and magic tricks.

Life is the hardest teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward.

Hobbies: Music, anime, manga, and video games

Haste makes waste