The next meeting of the Board of Trustees is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. — Monday, May 29, 2023 at the Waterloo Region Catholic Education Centre.
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The Board of Trustees of the Waterloo Catholic District School Board formally accepted the resignation of Kitchener/Wilmot Trustee Wendy Ashby at a Public Special Board Meeting held on May 24, 2023.
The Board also rescinded its previous motion to hire an outside consultant to investigate the allegation of a breach of the Code of Conduct and close the Code of Conduct investigation.
Under Section 221 of the Education Act, the Board of Trustees has two options via which to fill the vacant Kitchener/Wilmot seat (the vacant seat is one of four seats allotted to Kitchener/Wilmot):
Tonight, the Board received information regarding the options above. These options will come for decision at the next Board of Trustees meeting on Monday, May 29, 2023.
A Special Meeting of the Board of Trustees is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. — Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at the Waterloo Region Catholic Education Centre.
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Each year, the Waterloo Catholic District School Board proudly announces the recipients of three major awards: Chair’s Award, Community Partner Award and Distinguished Graduate Award.
This year’s recipients of those respective awards are Jan Littlejohn (retired Speech-Language Pathologist), the Lyle S. Hallman Foundation, and “St. Jerome’s Boy” Dave Kurek.
The Chair’s Award and Community Partner Award will be presented on Thursday, May 18, 2023, at the annual WCDSB Staff Recognition evening. Dave Kurek will receive the Distinguished Graduate Award at the Resurrection CSS graduation ceremony, per the tradition of the award.
Presented to a person or persons in the school system who has contributed significantly to Catholic Education. It is given annually in recognition of outstanding contributions made to the Catholic school system serving the students, staff, and greater community of Waterloo Region or to the betterment of Catholic Education in Ontario in general.
After 30 dedicated years of service at WCDSB, Jan Littlejohn retired from her role as a Speech-Language Pathologist in 2020. She was instrumental in establishing Speech-Language Pathology as a respected voice within the WCDSB’s multidisciplinary team structure. Above all, she kept the students at the heart of everything she did each day — advocating for those who are often the most vulnerable and supporting families along the way.
Presented annually in recognition of outstanding contributions made by a community partner or agency to the Catholic school system serving the students, staff, and greater community of Waterloo Region.
The Lyle S. Hallman Foundation is the 2022-23 recipient. The Foundation, founded by Lyle Hallman in 2003, continues his tradition of giving to areas that he believed were important. The foundation’s philosophy is to invest more in prevention and early intervention than in tertiary approaches. Support goes to projects working upstream, before problems occur, rather than downstream.
Presented to a graduate of more than 10 years from our school system who has demonstrated outstanding examples of the Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations. Awarded at the graduation exercises of the recipient’s Secondary School or other appropriate public venue.
Dave Kurek is a graduate of St. Paul CES and St. Jerome’s High School (1977). In fact, Dave refers to himself to this day as “A St. Jerome’s Boy” to anyone he meets.
Dave is a philanthropist in the truest sense of the word, always willing to support WCDSB schools — particularly those who have higher socio-economic needs. He shows his care through helping others, anonymously, be it for a whole class activity, whole school activity, or even helping individual families (including personally help plan activities and events).
He never wants to be named for his donations; just to be recognized as a “St. Jerome’s Boy”.
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May 1, 2023
During the May 1, 2023, Special Board of Trustees meeting, a motion was brought forward and approved by The Waterloo Catholic District School Board directing the Director of Education to appoint an outside consultant to investigate an allegation of a breach in the Board’s Code of Conduct and to bring forward a formal report of the investigation’s findings to the Board.
This investigation will be part of the review that the Board began immediately upon learning of an alleged Code of Conduct breach and is currently conducting.
The Board will have no further comment until the consultant’s report is presented and the review is complete.
Buses will not run as scheduled on Monday, May 1. An agreement has not been accepted by members of Unifor, Local 4304, representing Grand River Transit, busPLUS, MobilityPLUS operators, reservationists, fleet mechanics and service attendants.
ION trains will continue to operate. Click here to view the schedule.
As a result of the strike, Customer Service Centres are closed.
Transit customers are encouraged to find alternative transportation options and make careful decisions around fare purchasing.
Updates, when available, will be provided on grt.ca, Facebook and Twitter , as well as on the Region of Waterloo’s website, Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Customers can also get more information by calling 519-585-7555 or for deaf and hard of hearing customers (TTY) at 519-575-4608. For a full list of impacts, visit grt.ca/updates.
The next meeting of the Board of Trustees (Committee of the Whole Board) is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. — Monday, May 1, 2023 at the Waterloo Region Catholic Education Centre.
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April 26, 2023
Waterloo Catholic District School Board Trustees represent citizens of Waterloo Region. The Board remains committed to providing a quality, inclusive, faith-based education with a goal of providing all students the opportunity to succeed and belong.
The Board of Trustees of the Waterloo Catholic District School Board does not support statements made by Trustee Wendy Ashby in social media posts.
The Board is aware of concerns raised by community members regarding the contents of the posts by Trustee Ashby and is doing its due diligence in ensuring that those concerns are heard. Whenever there are allegations of a breach in the code of conduct, the Board follows up with a review into those allegations.
At a Board meeting held on Monday April 24, 2023, a number of individuals were disruptive, causing the meeting to be briefly recessed. Waterloo Regional Police were called to ensure the safety of all those in attendance. No arrests were made, and no further police action was required. The meeting resumed and Trustees received the presentation from the meeting’s sole registered delegation.
The Board will continue to be accountable and accessible to our community, but we will not tolerate hate of any kind or disrespectful behaviour that is disruptive to public meetings.
There will be no further comment from the Board of Trustees at this time. Please refer to a separate statement issued by Trustee Ashby.
I apologize for my tweets that offended people and I apologize to my board colleagues for how this has impacted them.
Conversations about inequality are often uncomfortable. As a Métis woman and in my professional role, I encounter these discussions regularly and part of these discussions is to challenge our existing systems. A great deal of my education and advocacy work is around understanding and furthering diversity, equity and inclusion.
I have decided to remove my Twitter account to ensure that my comments and advocacy will not be taken out of context, in the future.
I remain dedicated to continuing to work with my colleagues and our community to support all students.
The next meeting of the Board of Trustees is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. — Monday, April 24, 2023 at the Waterloo Region Catholic Education Centre.
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On Saturday April 1, 2023, 8 WCDSB secondary school students participated in the Skills Ontario Qualifying Competition at Fanshawe College in London.
Students represented the Waterloo Catholic District School Board with tremendous efforts in the following contests: TV & Video Production, Culinary Arts, Carpentry-Individual, and Welding.
WCDSB will see 3 students advance in the Culinary Arts with a silver and bronze place finish, and the awarding of a wild card space. Please join us in congratulating Jordan (St. Benedict), Nathan (St. Benedict) and Isaiah (St. Mary) as they move on to the Provincial Competition in May.
For the full results for the Qualifying Contests visit: RESULTS
| Carpentry- Individual | Asher Juvatopolos | Monsignor Doyle | 4th |
| Culinary Arts | Jordan Lacroix | St. Benedict | SILVER |
| Culinary Arts | Nathan Rivas Perez | St. Benedict | BRONZE |
| Culinary Arts | Isaiah Salazar | St. Mary | WILDCARD |
| TV & Video Production | Brooke Karaba & Asiah Deriu | St. Mary | 5th |
| Welding | Lucas Gerth | St. Mary | 6th |
| Welding | Mason Gutoskie | St. Mary | 7th |
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Thank-you to the hardworking Mentors: Greg Cinti, Tara Clinton, Neil Calhoun, Ken Hodgins, Dave Walker, and Michael Reitz for preparing our WCDSB Team for the 2023 Qualifying Contests.
The 2023 Skills Ontario Competition will take place as an in-person event for the first time since 2019, on May 1-3, 2023 at the Toronto Congress Centre.
Come check out the event as a spectator, and cheer on Team Waterloo Catholic!
WCDSB will be represented at the Provincial Competition by 40 students from all 5 Secondary Schools in grades 10-12.
For more information about the 2023 Skills Ontario Competition, check out the Skills Ontario website.
