Jodi Johnston
Jodi Johnston is a member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation, Ontario. She has worked extensively as an outdoor education teacher and spent large portions of every season guiding, paddling and snowshoeing in Temagami.
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Jodi is currently the Ojibwe language Teacher and Regional Consultant for First Nation, Métis and Inuit Students (FNMI) at York Region District School Board. She is the Indigenous advisor for the outdoor ed committee, has her Master Educators Leave No Trace certificate and instructors, ORCKA Instructor Level 2, Wilderness First Responder, and is an Outdoor Council of Canada paddling, winter camping and hiking certifier & instructor.
Gina Marucci
Gina Marucci is an Outdoor Education teacher in the York Region District School Board. She grew up playing in the ravines of the Niagara Region, the start of her love for the natural world. Over the last decade she has worked to use core routines to build nature connection into her work with students, colleagues, and families. Her passions include long forest walks with her two boys and her dog and being creative in the kitchen.
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Gina has worked with Indigenous communities to collaborate on projects, both during her time as an educator and as an archaeologist prior to entering education. She is the ON Director for the Outdoor Council of Canada and the Secretary for the Canadian Outdoor Summit, 2021.
Akinoomagzid - learning from Mother Earth
Gina Marucci and Jodi Johnston are both YRDSB teachers who both worked at Waabgon Gamig, a K-5 First Nation school located on Georgina Island where they both were immersed in the Akinoomagzid Land-based learning program. It was here that we came together as a team taking students from our closes partners in education out onto the land to learn together.