Teachers

Amy Sagan has been working at Morley Community School for five years and helped start Project NOWE in 2012. Her work in teaching over the past eight years has brought her all around the world, including New Zealand (where she completed her teaching degree and taught for two years), Japan and Sri Lanka. Amy is well loved by her students and colleagues because of her infectious spirit, enthusiasm and compassion, and despite her iron rule when it comes to student discipline and classroom management. Amy is passionate about the role the outdoors plays in education and is well rounded with her skills in climbing, canoeing, skiing, snowboarding and hiking. Her love for the mountains crosses over into her personal life: her partner Jason Billing is finishing his apprenticeship as a Mountain Guide and her dog Nahla is a Bernese Mountain Dog.

Tom Wolfe has been teaching at Morley Community School since 2003 shortly after completing his teaching degree at the University of Calgary. Tom splits his schedule between working with Project NOWE and working as a mountain guide in the ski touring, heli-ski, and alpine/rock/ice climbing guiding industries. Certified by the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG) at the highest international standard for mountain guiding, Tom is a member of both the ACMG and the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations (IFMGA). Tom's participation in Project NOWE this year has connected the program with the highest standards in the outdoor industry, a first in Canadian Outdoor Education school programs. Tom lives with his wife Deborah Lantz (a public health nurse on the Morley reserve) and kids Rohan and Ruthie in Canmore, Alberta.

Gen Soler has been working at Morley Community School since 2000. She's a Jill of All Trades, with her main function at MCS being that of Guidance Counsellor. However she is also actively involved with support for many school programs and extra-curricular activities. In fact, it was through conversations between her, Mary Tidlund and Outward Bound that Project NOWE was first conceived! Her role in Project NOWE these days is as the co-ordinator for the Outward Bound and Leadership Lab activities. Gen lives with her husband Jeff Horvath (teacher and first nations liaison at Canmore's high school) and two children Nashki and Zaagaate in Canmore, Alberta.