After a year of subbing with Saskatoon Public Schools, Andra began her career at Westmount Community School in the fall of 1993.  The next few years were spent mainly teaching in the primary grades at Westmount and Holliston schools.  After completing her Master’s in Special Education she has been blessed to hold a variety of unique positions within the division – YRC Day Program (for youth with mental health disorders), Special Education Consultant, the RUH/JPCH Hospital and Homebound Program, Coordinator for Student Services and ending her career with the amazing team at Nutana in the STEP Program. 

It has been a pleasure making connections with students, families, and colleagues over the years.  She has learned so much, gained lifelong friendships and has done her best to support the students and families in Saskatoon Public Schools. She is grateful for these experiences, but now looking forward to a new chapter in her life - travelling, volunteering, and spending lots of time with her husband Brian and their three amazing daughters, Reed, Cori and Kate 

Cindy received her B.Ed. and P.G.D. in special education from the University of Saskatchewan. She began her teaching career in 1989 at the Unity Public School where she was employed as the music and special education teacher. Over the next 35 years, Cindy taught in a variety of schools in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In addition to teaching music and special education, she had the opportunity to teach most grades from grade one to nine. Cindy feels very fortunate to have been employed by the Saskatoon Public School Division for the last 27 years where she had the opportunity to work with many wonderful children and their families. 

Dan began his teaching career in January of 1990 with a variety of temporary elementary contracts at various elementary schools in GSCS. Eventually he got a continuing contract at St. Mark elementary teaching grade 8 for eleven years. Eventually realizing that a high school appointment is what he wanted, Dan got his opportunity with the opening of Bethlehem Catholic High School in 2007. For the past seventeen years Dan has taught history and law as well as being the department chair for Social Sciences. Coaching has always been a way that Dan connects with his students, and he has dabbled in junior football as well as coaching junior boys’ basketball for three years and senior boys’ basketball for the past fourteen years. In retirement you may see Dan in and around the Gordie Howe Complex or traveling the globe with his wife Janice. 

Darcy’s teaching career began in the fall of 1994 at Sacred Heart High School in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, his home town and his former high school. Some highlights from his 19 year career in Yorkton Catholic are: 

• Working with the Sister Servants of Mary Immaculate (SSMI)

• Meeting his wife, Dietta, as she also started her teaching career the same year and in the same school 

• Participating in a government funded and approved Grassroots project highlighting the contributions of the SSMI to Catholic Education in Saskatchewan 

• Writing a provincially approved curriculum for Computer 3D Animation & Modelling 

• Assisting in the design of the new Sacred Heart High School 

• Coaching track & field, developing an indoor track club for the catholic students, and taking students from Zone 4 to two summer games as head coach for track & field  

• Working with the RCMP dog handler in the area to create a documentary on the history of the police dog service in Canada 

• Being the Math & Technology Consultant for the school division and working with other consultants across the province to create the Saskatchewan Common Math Assessments 

• Obtaining his Masters in Education

• Coaching senior football, developing a junior football program, and coaching his three sons Zachary, Mathew, and Jesse

• Teaching senior math, working with students to help them understand the math, and cherishing the lightbulb moments

In the fall of 2013, Darcy and his wife moved their family to Saskatoon to teach in Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools. In their 11 years here, Darcy has been Vice Principal at Fr. Vachon and St. Luke schools as well as Principal at St. Maria Goretti and St. Phillip schools. He has continued his love of math in any way possible along with bringing his love of football to his schools through participation in the division’s flag football program. 

Darcy will most miss growing and nurturing his faith in concrete ways each day, meeting families of different cultures, fostering the unique talents of fellow staff members, and developing unique relationships with students. 

In retirement, Darcy is excited to spend quality time with his wife, Dietta, and see what crazy adventures life has in store for their three sons, Zachary, Mathew, and Jesse. And he just might see where he can fit in some math and some football too! 

Ian began his career in Toronto at Lawrence Park Collegiate. While there he coached football, badminton and volleyball along with running the Fitness Center. He earned his M. Ed. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto while teaching at Lawrence Park. After six years, Ian moved to Saskatoon and earned a position at Marion Graham where he was a staff advisor for the SRC, hosted the Japanese exchange, coached basketball, football, golf as well as running the Fitness Center. One of his great joys at Graham was helping Bill Seymour with the Blades and eventually following Bill as the Educational Advisor. While at Graham, Ian was also a sessional lecturer at the U of S in the Faculty of Education teaching classroom management. He really enjoyed helping prospective teachers develop their own style of classroom management. After helping build a strong sense of community at Graham, Ian transferred to another school with a strong sense of community, Nutana Collegiate. Ian served as staff president at Nutana for 10 years. He retires from Bowman after three years. Ian wants to thank all of his colleagues for their generosity, thoughtfulness, humour and support. He learned from all of them and they have helped make him the teacher he is today. Ian also wants to thank his students for their trust, respect, and ultimately friendships. They made this a fulfilling career which he would not have traded for the world. Ian’s highlights include coaching the senior girls doubles OFSAA champions; getting a job in Saskatoon Public; being the Saskatoon Blades educational consultant; being the longest serving FNIM Learning Leader; being accepted to present at Indspire and trying to effect change in the Secondary Transfer Policy. It has been magic. 

Kelly has been a middle year's educator, and in the last years of her career, an administrator, with Saskatoon Public Schools for 36 years. She feels tremendous gratitude for the opportunity to spend so many years with students, staff and families in communities around our city. The countless relationships formed through the years have enriched her life in ways she could not have foreseen when she began her career. For all of it, she is grateful. 

While there are many things Kelly will miss from her career, she is very excited to begin the next chapter. Kelly looks forward to enjoying more time with her family and friends and to all of the adventures that lie ahead. 

A final word to all educators...may you always know the tremendous responsibility and importance of this work, but keep having fun along the way! 

I began teaching in 1989 at a Jewish Community Center in Vancouver. From there I went to Lloydminster and taught Grade 6 at St. Thomas, volunteered with Canadian Crossroads in Fiji, worked in Calgary, Dodsland and finally the last 30 years with GSCS. Most of my career has been in Grade 4. An occupational hazard is that I have the attention span of an 9 year old. What I will miss the most is the relationships with students and staff. With my music contribution I am considered a "rockstar" by some, especially the smallest people in the building. I enjoy their unique personalities and endless stories. Socializing with staff members has always brought me joy. Teachers are generally open minded and engaging with many passions to share. Throughout the Covid experience, I felt privileged to have colleagues to interact with when the rest of the world was isolated. My husband Randy and I are retiring together, against the advice of some. We are planning a trip to Spain and Portugal where we will begin retirement by attempting to walk the Camino de Santiago in Portugal. From there the adventure will continue! 

You could say that it was fated that Reg would become a teacher despite whatever resistance to the concept he could muster. He grew up in the era of Beatlemania and the space race. So, there were dreams of rock star or shooting for the moon. However, his dad had gotten a set of three old flip top wooden desks with the ink well from an old one-room schoolhouse slated for demolition. Countless hours were spent playing school with his younger sisters and neighbourhood friends. It naturally fell to him to be the teacher being the oldest. More importantly, he was surrounded by influential aunts and older cousins that were teachers, but the most potent force was his Mom, a high school business teacher. He was also fortunate to have had many teachers with high standards and several he considered mentors. His character of service and sharing was instilled through participation in Cubs, Scouts, Air Cadets, Altar Servers, community service, and volunteered to coach of gymnastics and baseball. 

Reg left his hometown of Melville, Saskatchewan in the fall of 1976 enrolled in the College of Education at the U of S. He worked toward his Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Arts degrees, unfortunately graduating when the Canadian economy was tanking and offering loan rates of 22%. Jobs were scarce, especially social studies high school teaching jobs. Fortunately, Reg had worked the summer prior to Convocation for the CNR never thinking it would be challenging to land a teaching position. How wrong he was! Undeterred, he eventually got on the substitute lists for Saskatoon Catholic, Saskatoon Public, and Saskatoon East School Divisions and took whatever was offered. Meanwhile, he continued working on the CNR as a conductor/trainman working out of Biggar and Saskatoon terminals.

During his railroading years he met his wife, Laura, a registered nurse and they were married on July 4, 1987. With Laura’s encouragement and support, Reg returned to school to get classes that he felt would improve his chances of securing that elusive teaching job. He went to Montreal for six weeks to learn French at the University of Montreal at the height of the Oka Crisis. After nine and a half years, Reg retired from the CNR with a golden handshake. Additionally, Reg worked for Fowlett Campus Resources as a Book Buyback Representative. Within months of retiring, Reg had a temporary contract at Lester B. Pearson School. The following school year, he was offered a 0.5 position at Roland Michener School and a 0.4 position at Pleasant Hill School. The following year he went to Pleasant Hill Community School, Years later he was transferred to Ecole College Park School. During this time, he took on a seasonal lecturer role at the College of Education for the fall term. While that role was exciting and challenging there was just too much teaching and planning going on. While at College Park he and his wife adopted their first son, Isaac. Later, Reg was selected to be part of an inspirational team of teachers chosen to open Silverspring School. This was an exciting, challenging, creative, and time-consuming period of his life at work and at home with the blessing of another son, Sam, joining his family, From Silverspring Reg was transferred to Lester B. Peason School. During this time, with encouragement from younger brother Greg, he worked on his M. Ed. and was awarded educational leave. He returned to teaching at Greystone Heights School and taught there for several years. Reg was selected to be part of the dynamic team that opened Colette Bourgonje School, one of the four P3 schools opened then. This is where Reg decided to end his teaching career. 

All along the way, Reg made many enduring friendships, benefitted from the multiplicity of leadership and professional development opportunities. He feels eternally blessed and grateful for all the experiences he had.

Reg looks ahead to new challenges and growth, to a retirement of creative pursuits, music, travel, volunteerism, good health, family activities, friendship, and time with his beloved wife Laura who will join him in retirement in a couple years. Thank you to all of you who have been part of my life. 

Thirty years has gone by like the blink of an eye. Shawna's career began in November of 1994 as .5 Core French release teacher at Vincent Massey School.  The following year she moved to Lester B. Pearson and remained there for the next five years teaching in the primary grades.  After the birth of her second child, she job shared a grade four classroom at Fairhaven before moving back to grade one at Caroline Robins for a couple of years.  A move to Silverspring School followed where she enjoyed nine years teaching either grade two or three.  What a wonderful place that was to teach with a fantastic staff and so many places to go on a class trip with rich learning experiences right in the community!  She spent the next three short but memorable years at Hugh Cairns where more special relationships were made.  Her final school was Holliston School where she spent the last seven years of her career and made more lifelong friendships.  Here she enjoyed the vast experience of working with many newcomer families to Canada.

Shawna will be celebrating her retirement with her husband, two sons and their spouses.  She looks forward to having the time for personal wellness/fitness and taking on some hobbies she has never had time for.  

Tom Sargeant has enjoyed his 33 years with the Saskatoon Public school system. He loved every moment teaching, coaching and being an administrator. The last 16 years he has been the principal at Bedford Road, Centennial and Walter Murray. The friendships he has made over his career have been a real gift. He is excited for the next chapter of life with his wife Kris where they will be travelling, spending time at the lake and being with their family Macy and Jackson,  Abby and grandson Jaylen.