12 - Wednesday, May 23, 1990 - North Shore News

NV teacher wins award

CHUCK HEATH, teacher-librarian at North Van- couver’s Ridgeway Elementary Schoo}, was applauded recently by the North Vancouver District 44 School Board for his selection as one of eight B.C. teachers awarded the Marshall McLuhan Distinguished Teach- er Award.

By PATRICK RAYNARD Contributing Writer

“An extraordinary teacher and librarian’’ is how Ridgeway principal Bernie Wells described Heath to the North Vancouver School Board.

“Mr. Heath’s interpretation of technology and the media has been brilliant,"’ Wells said. ‘‘He encourages the students to think and stimulates their creativity.””

Wells told the trustees that the quality of Ridgeway library’s collection was inconsistent when Heath took over, with books dating as far back as 1897 and one book on Africa bearing a 1908 copyright.

“But, three years ago, something happened,”’ Wells said, giving a favorite example of wher®Heath played Antonio Vivaldi’s Seasons while showing slides of leaves changing through the year. >

District 44 superintendent Dr. Robin Brayne told the board that Heath ‘‘was recognized for his role of transforming the Ridgeway Resource Centre from one that relied mainly on print material to one rich ir all

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**Mr. Heath received particular recognition tor his part in leading Ridgeway’s ‘Refuge’ project which in- volves the school’s students in an exploration of en- vironmental literacy, including the re-establishment of indigenous vegetation in a schcol courtyard,’ Brayne said.

Board chairman Kev. Roy Dungey told Heath that “the board cherishes what you have done. All of the trustees and parents of North Vancouver congratulate you very inuch."*

The Marshall McLuhan Distinguished Teacher Awards salute teachers for ‘‘creative and innovative applications of communications technologies in the teaching-learning environment,’’ Brayne said.

The awards are designed to bring public recognition to individual teachers and, in doing so, to both reward and encourage excellence in the classroom, Brayne added.

The awards are the creation of the Marshall McLuhan Centre on Global Communications, which was founded in 1981 by Mary McLuhan, daughter of the late Canadian scholar and futurist. The non-profit centre is based in Tcronto and San Francisco.

Sponsors for the 1989-90 awards program included several departments of the federal government, banks, corporations and media.

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