Sara Nouini

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.

The Member, a vice-principal, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for altering the marks of a student without the knowledge or authorization of the school principal.

The Member also exerted pressure on teachers to influence their grading of the student.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and a Joint Submission on Penalty, finding the Member guilty of professional misconduct.

The Committee ordered a reprimand and a four-month retroactive suspension of the Member's Certificate of Qualification and Registration.

The Member, a teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for failing to maintain professional boundaries with students.

The Member engaged in inappropriate physical contact, including sitting behind students on the same chair, touching their faces and hair, and rubbing their shoulders.

He also made inappropriate comments and mocked a student's culture.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand and imposing terms, conditions, or limitations on the Member's certificate, including a requirement to complete individualized instruction sessions on professional boundaries before returning to teach.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a motion on consent seeking leave to withdraw allegations of professional misconduct against the respondent member.

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 Ontario College of Teachers brought a motion seeking leave to withdraw allegations of professional misconduct against the Member.

The Discipline Committee granted the motion on consent, 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 teacher and department head, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for purchasing stolen goods from a student, encouraging other teachers to do the same, and allowing the student to take school property in exchange.

The Discipline Committee accepted an agreed statement of facts and a joint submission on penalty.

The Member was found guilty of failing to maintain the standards of the profession, engaging in disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct, and conduct unbecoming a member.

The Committee ordered a reprimand, a two-month retroactive suspension, and the successful completion of a professional ethics course.

The College brought a motion to withdraw allegations of professional misconduct against the Member in exchange for his Undertaking, Acknowledgment and Consent.

The Member agreed to resign his membership immediately and undertook not to teach in Ontario or apply for reinstatement for at least one year.

The Discipline Committee granted the motion, finding that the withdrawal of the Notice of Hearing in exchange for the undertaking was reasonable and served to protect the public interest.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a member who had been criminally convicted of possessing and accessing child pornography.

The member did not attend the hearing.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct based on the criminal convictions.

As the member's conduct involved a prohibited act involving child pornography, the Committee was required by statute to order the mandatory revocation of his teaching certificate and a reprimand.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought disciplinary proceedings against a teacher for alleged harassment of colleagues and physical, verbal, psychological, and sexual abuse of students.

The Discipline Committee found that the teacher engaged in a sustained campaign of harassment against a colleague and subjected students to angry outbursts, swearing, threats, and inappropriate touching.

The Committee found the teacher guilty of professional misconduct on all grounds except sexual abuse, concluding the evidence was insufficient to establish the touching was sexual in nature.

Given the severity of the misconduct, the teacher's lack of remorse, and his refusal to participate in the proceedings, the Committee found him to be ungovernable and ordered the revocation of his teaching certificate.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a motion, on consent, for an order to dispose of the motion in writing and to adjourn the scheduled discipline hearing sine die due to the member's medical condition.

The member provided a Declaration of Undertaking and Acknowledgement agreeing not to teach or hold any position requiring a Certificate of Qualification and Registration until the complaint is disposed of.

The Discipline Committee granted the motion, finding that the member's medical condition precluded her attendance, the request was timely, and the public interest was protected by the member's undertaking and the notation on the public register.

The parties were ordered to provide an update within one year.

The Member, a teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for engaging in inappropriate private electronic communications with two female students via Twitter.

The communications included asking a student to meet him alone and confessing to having a crush on her best friend.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and a Joint Submission on Penalty, finding the Member guilty of professional misconduct, including failing to maintain professional standards and psychological or emotional abuse of a student.

The Committee ordered that the Member receive a reprimand, with the fact of the reprimand recorded on the College's Register.

A high school teacher left his classroom unsupervised to disrupt a public health immunization clinic at the school.

He aggressively questioned nurses about vaccine ingredients, told students they could die from the vaccines, and intimidated both staff and students.

The Discipline Committee found him guilty of professional misconduct, including psychological abuse of a student, failure to supervise his class, and disgraceful or unprofessional conduct.

The Committee ordered a reprimand, a one-month suspension, remedial coursework, and a two-year prohibition from attending school health clinics.

The Member pled guilty to professional misconduct for engaging in an inappropriate, sexualized, and psychologically abusive relationship with a student.

The Discipline Committee rejected a joint submission on penalty because it did not adequately protect the public, given the Member's prior disciplinary history for boundary violations.

Following contested penalty submissions, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a 24-month suspension, and specific coursework requiring the Member to demonstrate insight and rehabilitation before returning to teaching.

The Discipline Committee of the Ontario College of Teachers held a penalty hearing for a retired member previously found guilty of professional misconduct for making inappropriate comments with a sexual undertone to a female 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 a pre-approved course on maintaining professional boundaries.

The College and the Member brought motions on consent regarding procedural matters in a discipline proceeding.

The College sought leave to deliver motion materials late and to examine five students via videoconference.

The Member sought an exemption from delivering a motion record and to examine a witness via videoconference.

The Discipline Committee granted both motions, setting out specific conditions for the handling of sealed documents during the witness's electronic testimony.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a motion to schedule a discipline hearing for a Member facing allegations of a sexual relationship with a student, or alternatively, for an interim order prohibiting her from teaching.

The Member opposed scheduling, seeking an adjournment due to a serious medical condition.

The Discipline Committee ordered the parties to schedule a hearing by September 2017 and required the Member to provide an updated medical report one month prior.

The Committee dismissed the College's request for an interim teaching prohibition, finding it lacked jurisdiction to impose what amounted to an interim suspension on a preliminary motion.

The Member, facing allegations of professional misconduct including physical and psychological abuse of a child, brought a motion for the production of third-party records under the O'Connor framework.

The requested records included medical files of the complainant and the child, employment records, and investigative files from the Children's Aid Society and police.

The Discipline Committee denied the request for the medical records, finding them not likely relevant and noting the high privacy interests involved.

The Committee also denied further employment records.

However, the Committee ordered the production of the CAS and police investigative files, subject to redactions for contact information, finding them relevant to the investigation of the incident at issue.

The member, a teacher, engaged in an inappropriate personal relationship with a student, which included numerous inappropriate electronic communications via social media.

Despite being warned by the school principal to end all communication with the student, the member continued the relationship and invited the student to her home.

The member pleaded no contest to allegations of professional misconduct, including psychological or emotional abuse of a student and failing to maintain the standards of the profession.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a four-month suspension of the member's certificate, and the successful completion of a course on maintaining appropriate boundaries.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against the member.

The member did not attend the hearing and was not represented.

The Discipline Committee found that the member committed acts of professional misconduct contrary to several subsections of Ontario Regulation 437/97.

The Committee ordered the immediate revocation of the member's Certificate of Qualification and Registration.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a member for professional misconduct.

While on probation, the member developed approximately 23 Individual Education Plans (IEPs) without consulting parents or classroom teachers, at the specific request of his principal and vice-principal, to improve EQAO test results.

The member expressed concerns but feared losing his job if he did not obey instructions.

The member pleaded no contest to the allegations.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct for failing to maintain the standards of the profession, failing to comply with the Education Act, and engaging in unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand and requiring the member to complete a course on professional ethics.