École secondaire catholique Champlain school guidance counsellor Serge Plante was recently presented with the Russ Seltzer Award by the Ontario School Counsellors’ Association.
The OSCA is a not-for-profit organization that provides support to guidance counsellors across the province.
The Russ Seltzer Award is bestowed on an OSCA member who has greatly contributed to the professional development and training of other guidance counsellors.
Plante has been a teacher for more than 30 years, and a guidance counsellor at ÉSC Champlain in Chelmsford since 2005. He has made significant contributions to the professional development of guidance counsellors.
As a member of the OSCA’s executive committee from 2010 to 2014, Plante helped plan various professional development activities such as the annual OSCA conference.
Plante also penned the “Guidance and Career Education, part 2” course for the Centre for Academic Development at Laurentian University.
He also leveraged his experience as a guidance counsellor to develop and teach a course on current requirements in his field. He plans to continue teaching this course after he retires.
“We are very fortunate to have Serge Plante as a guidance counsellor at the Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario,” said CSCNO director of education Lyse-Anne Papineau, in a press release.
“Not only do ESC Champlain students benefit from his expertise, his commitment to professional development and training is an asset for all CSCNO guidance counsellors and teaching staff.”
