J.D. Potié
FORT COULONGE
Aug. 27, 2019
Around 50 Commission Scholaire des Haut-Bois-de-l’Outaouais (C.S.H.B.O) adult education teachers and directors from different . . .
parts of the province dropped by the Centre Pontiac adult education institution in Fort Coulonge for their annual meeting before the school year.
The event consisted of an open house where attendees toured the different departments of the school while also discussing a number of important subjects.
According to Marie-Pier Aubrey, office administrator at the Centre Pontiac, CSHBO staff from its adult education institutions in Maniwaki and Gracefield attended the event.
At the start of the session, a large crowd of people poured into the building at around the same time and since much of the staff came from different parts of the province, the meeting had a reunion-like atmosphere to it.
Folks socialized and caught up on each other’s lives while sipping and munching away at fresh coffee, fruits and pastries before finally getting things underway.
Before starting the meeting, attendees were divided into two groups.
Those working in professional training and the ones in the adult education department headed into separate classrooms for their annual meetings.
The discussions covered topics such as pedagogical days, roles that still needed to be filled, and introductions to new policies and textbooks, Aubrey said.
The groups followed up with a guided tour of the Centre Pontiac, its kitchen and l’ecole secondaire Sieur de Coulonge in Mansfield et Pontefract to check out the classrooms in the school’s professional training department, Aubrey said.
According to the CSHBO’s coordinator of Adult Education, Vocational Training Services and Material and Technology Resource Services Normand Beaupré, the open house is a great way for teachers from the different CSHBO schools to work cooperatively as it gives folks an inside look on what’s going on in other institutions.
“The fact of knowing what is happening everywhere else brings us closer together,” he said. “It creates links between the staff members.”
