{"id":15979,"date":"2019-09-23T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ojen.ca?page_id=15979"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:28:14","slug":"2019-laura-kirby-mcintosh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ojen2024.turnbull.co\/en\/about\/ojen-awards\/hux-kiteley-award\/2019-laura-kirby-mcintosh","title":{"rendered":"2019 Laura Kirby-McIntosh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Laura Kirby-McIntosh from Cawthra Park Secondary School in the Peel\nDistrict School Board, became the 9<sup>th<\/sup> recipient of OJEN\u2019s annual Hux-Kiteley\nExemplary Justice Educator Award.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Kirby-McIntosh was nominated by three of her former high-school students Daniel Lis, Matthew Patterson and Cain Humeniuk, now attending university in law-related programs.&nbsp; Her nomination was supported by, Monika Mielczarek, a colleague who had been mentored by her when she was a new law teacher.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/ojen2024.turnbull.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ojen2024.turnbull.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ojen2024.turnbull.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ojen2024.turnbull.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n<br>\n\n\n\n<br><p>Ms. Kirby-McIntosh inspired her students with her own passion for law.\nIn addition to her classroom teaching, she led numerous extra-curricular student clubs, including the\nmock trial team, social justice and advocacy groups. She is best known for her role in establishing the Charter Challenge\nprogram at Cawthra Park.&nbsp; This is one of\nOJEN\u2019s most challenging programs &#8211; a province-wide mock appeal competition\nbased on a mock judicial decision.&nbsp;\nStudents write factums in favour of the appellant or the respondent and\nthe winning teams on each side argue their case in a courtroom at the Court of\nAppeal.&nbsp; Ms. Kirby-McIntosh began the\nCharter Challenge program at Cawthra Park as an extra-curricular activity for\nher students several years ago.&nbsp; Cawthra\nPark teams have been consistently excellent, almost always making the\nsemi-finals or finals. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cawthra Park Charter Challenge teams continued to be consistently\nexcellent even after Ms. Kirby-McIntosh passed on the responsibility for\nprogram to other teachers.&nbsp; By the time\nshe handed it off, the entire school had embraced the Charter Challenge as an\nimportant annual event.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as teaching Law,\nMs. Kirby-McIntosh often teaches Civics. Her nominators referred to the advocacy\nwork she has done on behalf of the Autism community for many years.&nbsp; Ms. Kirby-McIntosh is currently the President\nof the Ontario Autism Coalition.&nbsp; As a\npolitical organizer and an advocate for a cause that is close to her heart, she\nis a perfect example of living the values taught in the Civics program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to former student and nominator, Matthew Patterson, \u201c<em>To Tosh, students are more than just bodies\nin a classroom. They are people with lives and aspirations. And she is not just\na teacher. She is a mentor, a leader, and an inspiration to the hundreds of\nstudents she\u2019s had over the years.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations, Laura!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Kirby-McIntosh from Cawthra Park Secondary School in the Peel District School Board, became the 9th recipient of OJEN\u2019s annual Hux-Kiteley Exemplary Justice Educator Award.&nbsp; Ms. Kirby-McIntosh was nominated by three of her former high-school students Daniel Lis, Matthew Patterson and Cain Humeniuk, now attending university in law-related programs.&nbsp; Her nomination was supported by, Monika [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1232,"featured_media":0,"parent":2675,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15979","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2019 Laura Kirby-McIntosh - OJEN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2019 Laura Kirby-McIntosh - OJEN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Laura Kirby-McIntosh from Cawthra Park Secondary School in the Peel District School Board, became the 9th recipient of OJEN\u2019s annual Hux-Kiteley Exemplary Justice Educator Award.&nbsp; 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