Renée Kopp

The Ontario College of Teachers brought discipline proceedings against a member for professional misconduct involving a pattern of inappropriate comments and behaviour towards students and colleagues.

The member pled guilty to the allegations, admitting to psychological abuse of students, failing to maintain professional boundaries, and sexually harassing female colleagues.

The Discipline Committee accepted the agreed statement of facts and joint submission on penalty, finding the member guilty of professional misconduct.

The member was ordered to receive a reprimand, serve a 20-month suspension, and complete a course on maintaining appropriate boundaries.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a member who used a school board-issued laptop to access dating sites and pornographic videos.

The laptop was kept in the member's office where students could have accessed it.

The member admitted to the facts and pled guilty to professional misconduct.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, an eight-month suspension of the member's certificate of qualification, and the completion of a professional ethics course.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a motion seeking permission to withdraw allegations of professional misconduct and incompetence against the Member.

The College submitted there was no reasonable prospect of obtaining a finding, as the Member's professional competencies had improved through the New Teacher Induction program and there was insufficient evidence of misconduct.

The Discipline Committee granted the motion, finding it was not in the public interest to expend resources where there was no reasonable prospect of a finding.

The Member, a teacher, faced allegations of professional misconduct for using inappropriate language, swearing, yelling at students, and disciplining students by making them do push-ups.

The Member pleaded no contest to the allegations.

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

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand and imposed conditions on the Member's certificate requiring the completion of a course on respectful relationships and classroom management.

The Member, a teacher, faced a discipline hearing for repeatedly mismanaging and stealing funds collected from students for school activities, and for stealing money from a colleague's mailbox.

The Member ignored directives from the school principal to stop handling money.

The Member pled guilty to professional misconduct, including failing to maintain the standards of the profession and engaging in disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a one-month suspension of the Member's teaching certificate, and the successful completion of an ethics course.

The member faced allegations of incompetence following two performance appraisals that resulted in 'Development Needed' and 'Unsatisfactory' ratings.

The member pleaded no contest to the allegations, admitting to serious deficiencies in teaching practice, including poor classroom management, failure to adapt lessons for students with IEPs, and failure to conduct ongoing assessments.

The Discipline Committee found the member incompetent and accepted a joint submission on penalty.

The member's certificate was made subject to terms, conditions, and limitations, requiring the successful completion of an additional qualification course in teaching strategies and classroom management, as well as two performance appraisals upon resuming a teaching position.

The Member, a teacher, faced allegations of professional misconduct for claiming sick leave to attend a multi-level marketing conference in the Bahamas and for inappropriately accessing confidential information of students with Individual Education Plans (IEPs) to distribute marketing materials for her husband's financial services business.

The Member pled guilty to the allegations.

The Discipline Committee found the Member guilty of professional misconduct, including failing to maintain professional standards, conflict of interest, and disgraceful, dishonourable, or unprofessional conduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a one-month suspension of her teaching certificate, and the completion of a professional ethics course.

The Member, an occasional teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for making inappropriate and insensitive comments to students regarding their sexual orientation, ethnicities, and relationship status.

The Discipline Committee accepted the Agreed Statement of Facts and found the Member guilty of failing to maintain professional standards, verbal and psychological abuse, and disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand and requiring the Member to complete coursework on professional boundaries and cultural sensitivity.

The Member, a teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct after submitting 48 false health and drug benefit claims totalling over $42,000 to her employer's benefits provider.

She had previously pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of using a forged document and repaid the defrauded amount.

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, a 12-month suspension of her teaching certificate, and a condition requiring the completion of an ethics course before returning to teaching.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought disciplinary proceedings against a member for professional misconduct relating to incidents during the 1990-1991 academic year.

The member pleaded no contest to allegations of inappropriately disciplining students, making demeaning comments, and encouraging inappropriate classroom games and rivalries.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct, including physical, verbal, and psychological abuse.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a three-month suspension of the member's certificate, and the completion of coursework on professional boundaries and classroom management.

The Member, a high school teacher, pleaded no contest to allegations of professional misconduct, including physically abusing two students by grabbing, pulling, and pushing them, and failing to supervise them, which resulted in an altercation and injury to a third student.

The Discipline Committee accepted the uncontested facts and found the Member guilty of professional misconduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a four-month suspension of the Member's certificate, and the completion of coursework on professional boundaries, classroom management, and anger management.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against the Member following his criminal conviction for sexual interference involving a student.

The Member did not attend the hearing.

The Discipline Committee found the Member guilty of professional misconduct, including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of a student.

The Committee ordered that the Member be reprimanded and directed the Registrar to immediately revoke his certificate of qualification and registration, as mandated by the Ontario College of Teachers Act for cases of sexual abuse.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought disciplinary proceedings against a member following his criminal convictions for making, possessing, and distributing child pornography.

The member pleaded guilty to the professional misconduct allegations and admitted to the facts, which involved online communications with multiple underage victims, some of whom were his former students.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct.

Pursuant to the mandatory penalty provisions of the Ontario College of Teachers Act, 1996 for acts involving child pornography, the Committee ordered that the member be reprimanded and his teaching certificate be immediately revoked.

The Discipline Committee held a penalty hearing after finding the member engaged in professional misconduct involving sexual abuse of two students.

The member did not attend the hearing.

Applying the transitional provisions of the Safe and Supportive Classrooms Act, 2019, the Committee found that the mandatory penalty provisions applied because the member's conduct met the broader definition of sexual abuse.

The Committee ordered a reprimand and the immediate revocation of the member's certificate of qualification and registration.

The Committee also ordered the member to pay $20,000 in costs due to her failure to cooperate and the complexity of the proceedings.

The Discipline Committee of the Ontario College of Teachers held a penalty hearing after previously finding the member engaged in professional misconduct.

The member did not attend the hearing.

The Committee ordered that the member receive a written reprimand and that their Certificate of Qualification and Registration be immediately revoked.

The member was also ordered to pay $20,000 in costs to the College.

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

The member's case had already been dealt with by another committee of the College.

The member consented to the motion.

The Discipline Committee granted the motion, finding that the withdrawal was reasonable and served to protect the public interest.

The Member, a teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for failing to adequately supervise students in his auto shop class.

He regularly permitted students to leave without permission and drive vehicles in and out of the shop.

On one occasion, three students left in a car without permission and were involved in a single-car collision.

The Member failed to intercept their departure and failed to immediately report the accident to the school administration.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand and the completion of a course on classroom management and effective supervision.

The Member pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for making culturally insensitive remarks to a student regarding his home country and for using her personal cell phone to audio record student behaviour without a valid pedagogical reason.

The Discipline Committee accepted the guilty plea and found the Member committed professional misconduct, including verbal and psychological abuse.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand and requiring the Member to complete a course in classroom management and cultural sensitivity.

The Member, a teacher, faced a discipline hearing for making inappropriate and belittling comments to a student and failing to provide proper assistance.

The parties submitted an Agreed Statement of Facts and Guilty Plea.

The Discipline Committee found the Member guilty of professional misconduct, including verbal abuse and failing to maintain the standards of the profession.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand and required the Member to complete a course on classroom management and professional communication.

The Member, an Associate Teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for making inappropriate ethnic slurs and engaging in unwanted physical contact with a Teacher Candidate.

The parties presented a joint submission on penalty that included a two-month suspension to be served during the summer.

The Discipline Committee rejected the joint submission regarding the timing of the suspension, applying the public interest test from R. v. Anthony-Cook.

The Committee held that allowing the suspension to be served during the summer, when teachers do not typically teach, would bring the administration of the discipline process into disrepute and fail to meet the objectives of specific and general deterrence.

The Committee ordered the two-month suspension to commence at the start of the school year.