Claudia Patenaude-Daniels

The Member, a teacher at an international school in Switzerland, engaged in a pattern of inappropriate and unethical conduct during the 2016-2017 school year.

The Member admitted to offering students early access to standardized test questions, charging students for off-campus tutoring, verbally abusing a student, failing to maintain professional boundaries by drinking alcohol with students and inviting them to his apartment, being intoxicated on school trips, and failing to adequately supervise students.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and Guilty Plea, finding the Member guilty of professional misconduct.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a six-month suspension of the Member's teaching certificate, and the successful completion of a course on boundary violations and professional ethics.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a member for professional misconduct, including sexual abuse of a student.

The member admitted to engaging in an inappropriate personal relationship with a student, which included providing alcohol and cigarettes, holding hands, and kissing.

The Discipline Committee accepted the agreed statement of facts and found the member guilty of professional misconduct.

Pursuant to the mandatory revocation provisions of the Ontario College of Teachers Act, the Committee ordered the immediate revocation of the member's teaching certificate and issued a written reprimand.

The member was found to have engaged in professional misconduct, including the sexual abuse of two students by touching their buttocks and making inappropriate comments.

The member did not attend the penalty hearing.

Pursuant to the mandatory provisions of the Ontario College of Teachers Act, 1996, the Discipline Committee ordered the immediate revocation of the member's certificate and an in-person reprimand.

The Committee also ordered the member to pay $25,000 in costs to the College, noting the member's uncooperative conduct in failing to attend hearings and communicate with the College, which unnecessarily lengthened the proceedings.

The member was found to have engaged in professional misconduct.

On the day scheduled for the penalty phase of the hearing, the member's counsel brought a motion to adjourn because the member had terminated his retainer the day before.

The College did not oppose the motion.

The Discipline Committee granted the adjournment, finding that it would be unfair to proceed without affording the member an opportunity to seek new legal counsel, and scheduled a set date hearing.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought disciplinary proceedings against a member for submitting false benefit claims to her school board's benefits provider.

The member initially blamed a friend but later admitted to fabricating the story and submitting the fraudulent claims herself.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and Guilty Plea, finding the member guilty of professional misconduct.

Accepting a Joint Submission on Penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand and required the member to complete a course in ethical standards for the teaching profession.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought disciplinary proceedings against a member who pled guilty to and was convicted of criminal sexual assault against a former student.

The member did not attend the hearing but submitted an Agreed Statement of Facts and Guilty Plea, admitting to engaging in an inappropriate personal and sexual relationship with the student.

The Discipline Committee accepted the guilty plea and found the member guilty of professional misconduct, including sexual abuse of a student.

Pursuant to the mandatory penalty provisions of the Ontario College of Teachers Act, 1996, the Committee ordered that the member be reprimanded and directed the Registrar to immediately revoke her certificate of qualification and registration.

The Discipline Committee held a penalty hearing for a teacher found to have engaged in professional misconduct, including physically abusing a student and communicating inappropriately with a principal and a colleague.

Accepting a joint submission, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a six-month suspension, and terms requiring the completion of coursework on anger management and professional boundaries before returning to teaching.

The member was also ordered to pay $10,000 in costs to the College.

The Ontario College of Teachers alleged that the Member committed professional misconduct by using inappropriate physical force on a student with special needs and by communicating unprofessionally with his principal and a fellow teacher.

The Discipline Committee found that the Member aggressively removed headphones from the student's head and pulled him out of his chair, constituting physical abuse.

The Committee also found that the Member engaged in angry and aggressive confrontations with his principal and a colleague, failing to treat them with respect and dignity.

The Committee concluded that the Member failed to maintain the standards of the profession, physically abused a student, failed to comply with the Education Act, and engaged in unprofessional conduct.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a member for alleged professional misconduct involving Grade [XXX] female students in Nunavut.

The allegations included inappropriate touching of the students' buttocks and making inappropriate comments such as calling them 'beautiful' and 'babe'.

The member denied the allegations, claiming the students fabricated them out of revenge.

The Discipline Committee found the students' evidence credible and rejected the member's theory.

The Committee concluded that the member engaged in professional misconduct, including sexual, physical, verbal, and psychological abuse, and ordered an interim suspension pending a penalty hearing.

The Discipline Committee of the Ontario College of Teachers held a penalty hearing for a member previously found to have engaged in professional misconduct.

The member's conduct involved inappropriate and discriminatory treatment of a student based on sexual orientation, which led to the student being 'outed'.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a five-month suspension of the member's certificate, and the successful completion of coursework on classroom management and ethical practice before returning to teaching.

The Member, a teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for repeatedly accessing pornography, including 'teen' pornography, on a school board computer during work hours.

The Discipline Committee accepted the agreed statement of facts and found the Member guilty.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a 10-month suspension of the Member's certificate of qualification and registration, and an oral reprimand.

The Committee noted the Member had voluntarily resigned from the College with no intention to return to teaching, which addressed concerns about the lack of a rehabilitative coursework component in the penalty.

The Member, a teacher, engaged in an inappropriate, personal, and romantic relationship with a student, which included exchanging hundreds of non-sexual and sexual electronic messages and discussing a future sexual relationship after graduation.

The Member pleaded no contest to allegations of professional misconduct, including sexual abuse of a student.

The Discipline Committee found the Member guilty of professional misconduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered the immediate revocation of the Member's Certificate of Qualification and Registration and issued a written reprimand.

The Discipline Committee found the Member guilty of professional misconduct based on an Agreed Statement of Facts and Guilty Plea.

The parties presented a Joint Submission on Penalty proposing a 10-month suspension and a reprimand.

The Committee expressed concerns about the lack of a rehabilitative component in the proposed penalty, given that the Member's certificate was only being suspended, not revoked.

The hearing was adjourned to allow the parties to make further submissions regarding rehabilitation.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought disciplinary proceedings against a teacher for allegedly calling a student by his last name, treating him differently, and commenting on his sexual orientation in front of other students.

The Discipline Committee found that while the teacher did call the student by his last name, there was insufficient evidence to prove she treated him differently based on her opinion of him.

However, the Committee found that the teacher did ask the student about his sexual orientation in front of his peers, which constituted verbal and psychological abuse.

The teacher was found guilty of professional misconduct for failing to maintain the standards of the profession, abusing a student, and engaging in disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a retired member who had been convicted of two counts of sexual assault against former students.

The member did not attend the hearing.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct based on his criminal convictions for sexually assaulting two male students in the 1980s while offering after-school assistance.

The Committee ordered the revocation of the member's Certificate of Qualification and Registration, finding that his egregious abuse of his position of trust and authority warranted the most severe penalty available.

The Member, a teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for failing to report a student's disclosure of physical abuse by her father to the Children's Aid Society, contrary to his duty under the Child and Family Services Act.

Instead of reporting, the Member attempted to mediate the situation with the parents and told the student's homeroom teacher to make her own call.

The Member had previously pleaded guilty in criminal court to failing to report a child in need of protection.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand and noting that the Member had already completed required coursework on professional boundaries and the duty to report.

The College brought a motion seeking leave to withdraw the allegations of professional misconduct set out in a Notice of Hearing against the member.

The member consented to the motion.

The Discipline Committee granted the motion, noting that the member's case had previously been dealt with by another committee of the College, making the withdrawal reasonable and in the public interest.

The Member, a retired teacher, faced allegations of professional misconduct for engaging in inappropriate physical contact with multiple female students while coaching a school team.

The Member admitted to the facts, including touching students' legs, shoulders, and faces, and pulling a student by her shirt.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found the Member guilty of professional misconduct.

Accepting a Joint Submission on Penalty, the Committee ordered a written reprimand, a three-month suspension of the Member's Certificate of Qualification and Registration, and the successful completion of a course on boundary violations should he return to teaching.

The member faced allegations of professional misconduct for verbally and psychologically abusing students, making racist and homophobic comments, engaging in workplace violence against a colleague, and having an inappropriate romantic relationship with a recently graduated former student.

The member did not attend the hearing but submitted an agreed statement of facts and guilty plea.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct and, accepting a joint submission on penalty, ordered the immediate revocation of the member's teaching certificate.

The member pleaded guilty to professional misconduct before the Discipline Committee of the Ontario College of Teachers.

The member engaged in boundary violations by meeting alone with a student and exchanging inappropriate text messages with another student.

The member also misused sick days to attend conferences for his personal business, solicited students and parents for his business, and disclosed confidential information about a student.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a six-month suspension of the member's certificate, and the completion of courses on boundaries and professional ethics.