Julie Maciura

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a member following three consecutive unsatisfactory Teacher Performance Appraisals (TPAs).

The Discipline Committee found that the member failed to maintain the standards of the profession, failed to comply with the Education Act, and engaged in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

The member consistently failed to provide appropriate lesson plans, differentiate instruction, manage classroom behaviour, and accurately assess students.

The Committee also found the member to be incompetent, as her ongoing lack of knowledge, skill, and judgment demonstrated she was unfit to continue carrying out her professional responsibilities.

The Discipline Committee held a penalty hearing after finding the member engaged in professional misconduct by having an inappropriate relationship and sexual intercourse with a vulnerable student, and failing to report the student's mental health issues.

The College sought revocation, while the member sought a suspension, citing her religious conversion and remorse.

The Committee ordered the immediate revocation of the member's Certificate of Qualification and Registration and a written reprimand, emphasizing the egregious nature of the conduct, the profound impact on the student, and the need for specific and general deterrence.

The Committee confirmed the member could apply for reinstatement after one year, as the conduct pre-dated the mandatory revocation provisions for sexual abuse.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against the Member, alleging professional and sexual misconduct in his high school classes.

The Discipline Committee found that the Member engaged in professional misconduct by yelling at students, publicly sharing their grades, and telling them not to have hope, which amounted to verbal, psychological, and emotional abuse.

The Committee also found that the Member engaged in sexual misconduct by repeatedly making a sexually suggestive comment to a student about playing with his chalk.

The Member was found to have breached the standards of the profession and engaged in disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct.

The Member, a teacher whose certificate was mandatorily revoked after being found to have sexually abused a student by making remarks of a sexual nature, brought a motion challenging the constitutionality of the mandatory revocation provisions of the Ontario College of Teachers Act.

The Member argued the provisions violated his right to freedom of expression under section 2(b) of the Charter.

The Discipline Committee admitted expert evidence from both parties.

Applying the Irwin Toy and Oakes tests, the Committee found that while the mandatory revocation provisions do infringe on the Member's freedom of expression, the infringement is demonstrably justified under section 1 of the Charter.

The Committee held that protecting vulnerable students from the harmful effects of sexual abuse is a pressing and substantial objective, and that a bright-line rule of mandatory revocation is rationally connected and proportionate to that goal.

The constitutional motion was dismissed.

The member, a teacher, faced allegations of professional misconduct for engaging in inappropriate electronic communications with a former student over social media.

The member pleaded no contest to the allegations.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct, including psychological or emotional abuse of a student, and conduct that was disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a written reprimand, a three-month suspension of the member's certificate, and the completion of a course on boundary violations.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a member for alleged professional misconduct, including making inappropriate comments to students in class, at a gas station, and on Facebook.

The Discipline Committee found that the member verbally and psychologically abused students by calling them derogatory names.

The Committee also found that the member's Facebook posts, which included sexist and demeaning comments about women and victims of sexual assault, constituted sexual misconduct.

The member was found guilty of professional misconduct, with a penalty hearing to be scheduled.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a member for making inappropriate, racist, and derogatory comments to students on multiple occasions while working as an occasional teacher.

The member pleaded no contest to the allegations.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct, including verbal abuse of students, disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct, and conduct unbecoming a member.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a two-month suspension of the member's certificate of qualification and registration, and the successful completion of coursework on equity, diversity, and inclusion.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought disciplinary proceedings against the Member, who was an educational assistant at the time of the alleged misconduct.

The Member admitted to engaging in an inappropriate personal relationship with a vulnerable student, which included giving him her personal phone number, lending him $3,000 to pay a gambling debt, and having sexual intercourse with him at her home.

The Discipline Committee found that the Member's conduct constituted physical and emotional abuse of a student, and was disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional under the regulations in force in 2004.

The Committee held that although the Member was not a registered teacher at the time, her conduct as an educator breached professional boundaries and constituted professional misconduct.

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

The parties agreed to the withdrawal after the respondent signed an Undertaking, Agreement and Acknowledgment, in which he irrevocably resigned his membership, surrendered his Certificate of Qualification and Registration, and undertook never to teach again in Ontario.

The Discipline Committee granted the motion, finding that the withdrawal protected the public interest, avoided a protracted hearing, and spared vulnerable young witnesses from testifying.

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

The member pled no contest to allegations of making disparaging comments to students and failing to provide accommodations set out in their Individual Education Plans.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct, including verbal and psychological abuse, failing to maintain professional standards, and disgraceful or dishonourable conduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand and required the member to complete an additional qualification course on classroom management and accommodating individual learning needs.

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

The College cited diminished ability to prove the allegations and the member's execution of an Undertaking, Agreement and Acknowledgment in which he permanently resigned his membership and agreed never to teach in Ontario again.

The Discipline Committee granted the motion, finding that the withdrawal of the allegations in light of the undertaking served to protect the public interest.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought disciplinary proceedings against a member for inappropriate physical contact with a colleague during an off-duty social event.

The member pleaded no contest to the allegations.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct, specifically unprofessional conduct and conduct unbecoming a member, for touching his colleague intimately without her consent on two occasions in one night.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a two-month suspension of the member's certificate of qualification and registration, and the completion of coursework on professional relations and boundaries.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a member who served as a Director of Education.

The member pleaded no contest to allegations of professional misconduct involving a years-long pattern of making disrespectful, demeaning, and threatening comments to and about staff and trustees, making offensive comments about Indigenous people, falling asleep during work (including a student hearing), and throwing board property.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of disgraceful, dishonourable, unprofessional, and unbecoming conduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a written reprimand, a four-month suspension of the member's certificate, and the successful completion of a conflict resolution course.

The Member, a teacher, engaged in a pattern of inappropriate behaviour and boundary violations with a student, both while she was his student and after she graduated.

This included sending inappropriate and sexually suggestive messages, meeting outside of school, and discussing personal and marital issues.

The Member pleaded no contest to the allegations.

The Discipline Committee found the Member guilty of professional misconduct, including psychological or emotional abuse and sexual misconduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a 20-month suspension, and terms and conditions requiring the Member to complete a course on professional boundaries and undergo therapy.

In a discipline proceeding against a teacher found to have engaged in sexual abuse, the member brought a constitutional motion challenging the mandatory revocation provisions of the Ontario College of Teachers Act.

Prior to hearing the motion, the parties sought a ruling on the admissibility of two expert reports.

The Discipline Committee ruled that the expert reports of Dr. Anthony Doob, regarding general deterrence and mandatory minimum sentences, and Dr. Mary Louise Arnold, regarding the harms of sexual abuse in teacher-student interactions, were both admissible.

Written reasons were to follow.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought disciplinary proceedings against a member who had been convicted criminally of possessing child pornography in the form of written words.

The member had engaged in an online conversation seeking a sexual encounter involving a 16-year-old and sent nude photographs.

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, including engaging in a prohibited act involving child pornography, failing to maintain the standards of the profession, and engaging in disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct.

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 the member's certificate of qualification and registration.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought discipline proceedings against a member for professional misconduct involving the sexual abuse of multiple students.

The member had previously pleaded guilty to criminal charges including sexual interference, sexual exploitation, and sexual assault, and was sentenced to 30 months' incarceration.

In the discipline proceeding, the member admitted to the allegations via an Agreed Statement of Facts.

The Discipline Committee 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, the Committee ordered a reprimand and the immediate revocation of the member's teaching certificate.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a vice-principal for engaging in a personal and sexual relationship with a student.

The member communicated with the student via text messages containing sexual content and engaged in sexual relations with her at his residence.

When an investigation was initiated, the member encouraged the student to mislead the police and the school board.

The member pleaded no contest to the allegations.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct, including sexual abuse, psychological abuse, and disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct.

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 Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against the Member for professional misconduct and sexual abuse of students.

The Member did not attend the hearing but entered into an Agreed Statement of Facts and Guilty Plea.

The Discipline Committee found the Member guilty of professional misconduct and sexual abuse of students.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a written reprimand and the immediate revocation of the Member's Certificate of Qualification and Registration.

The member was previously found to have engaged in professional misconduct involving child pornography.

At the penalty hearing, the Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty.

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