Fr. Angus MacDougall Award for Excellence in Family Life Education goes to someone who demonstrates many of these characteristics:
• An Ontario Catholic family life educator
• One who demonstrate excellence in one or more of the following areas:
– Outstanding contributions to family life education at the provincial level.
-Care and commitment to engaging and supporting student learning in family life education
-Knowledge and demonstration of best practices in family life education
-Innovations in the practice of family life education
-On-going contributions to the field of family life education beyond their own classroom
-Leadership in initiating and sustaining opportunities for the growth of quality family life education with colleagues
-Continuous updating and improving of personal practice as a family life educator
Archbishop Philip Pocock Award for Excellence in Religious Education goes to someone who demonstrates many of these characteristics:
- An Ontario Catholic school religious educator
- One who demonstrate excellence in one or more of the following areas:
- Care and commitment to engaging and supporting student learning in religious education and faith formation
- Knowledge and demonstration of best practices in religious education and faith formation
- Innovations in the practice of religious education and faith formation
- On-going contributions to the field of religious education and faith formation beyond their own classroom at a provincial level
- Leadership in initiating and sustaining opportunities for the growth of quality religious education and faith formation with colleagues
- Continuous updating and improving of personal practice as a religious educator.
Seeds of Hope New Teacher Award for Excellence in Religious and Family Life Education goes to someone who demonstrates many of these characteristics:
- An Ontario Catholic school religious and/or family life educator
- Within the first five years of their teaching career after receiving their Ontario Teaching Certificate
- One who demonstrate excellence in one or more of the following areas:
- Care and commitment to engaging and supporting student learning in religious education and faith formation
- provides an ongoing and intentional invitation for their students, their families and the staff to hear the invitation and to encounter Christ just as the disciples did on the Road to Emmaus.
- possesses community mindedness by involving students in social justice/social engagement.
- models gratitude and instills hope in the community.
- articulates to their students the vision of who the Catholic learner is becoming by exemplifying the Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations in their journey to date.
- participates in the liturgical life of the school community/parish.
- seeks out professional and spiritual growth activities.
- strives to keep Jesus at the centre of their school community and at the centre of their own life.
CARFLEO was formed by an amalgamation of CRECO and OCFLEN
CRECO AWARD recipients:
- 1975 Sr. Sheila McAuliffe, CND
- 1976 Martin Jeffrey
- 1977 Sr. Catherine Fenn, CSJ
- 1978 Sr. St. Maurice, OSU
- 1979 Sr. Mary Hamilton, CND
- 1980 Margaret Walder
- 1981 Dr. Mary Malone
- 1982 Chris Asseff
- 1982 Rev. P.M. Horrigan
- 1983 Noel Cooper
- 1984 Sr. Norine Connely , CSJ
- 1985 Sr. Elaine Dunn , CSJ
- 1986 Ron & Mary Deleski
- 1987 Fr. Frank Ruetz, C.R.
- 1988 Muriel Loftus
- 1989 Joanne Chafe
- 1990 Sr. Marie Taylor, SSND
- 1990 Walter Bildstein
- 1991 Ted Schmidt
- 1992 Fr. Bill Russell
- 1993 Sr. Joan Cronin , CSIC
- 1994 John Prokopitch
- 1995 John Podgorski
- 1996 Terri Kudirka
- 1997 Frances Kelly
- 1998 Jerry Creedon
- 1999 Gerald Woodman
- 2000 Margie Ann McKinnon
- 2001 Heather Reid
- 2002 Mary Ann Takacs
- 2003 Sharron McKeever
- 2004 Doug Finbow
In 2005 we awarded our first Archbishop Pocock Award for excellence in Religious Education. Our Archbishop Pocock Award recipients:
- 2005 Tony Cuschieri
- 2006 Dwyer Sullivan
- 2007 Bronek Korczynski
- 2008 Larry Trafford
- 2009 Les Miller
- 2010 Tony Cosentino
- 2011 Joan Daly Martin
- 2012 Greg Rogers
- 2013 Sharon Gusz
- 2014 Janet Bentham
- 2015 Mark Siolek
- 2016 Joe Bezzina
- 2017 Al Dufour
- 2018 Deirdre Thomas
- 2019 Shelagh Peterson
- 2020 Terri Durham
- 2021 Patricia Dal Ben
- 2022 Mina Sangermano
- 2023 Mark Frolick
The Fr. Angus MacDougall S.J. Award is awarded to those making outstanding contributions in Catholic Family Life Education in Ontario. Our Fr. Angus MacDougall S.J. Award recipients:
- 2000 Sister Marie Taylor, SSND
- 2001 Mary Baier
- 2002 Patrick Gallagher
- 2003 John Podgorski
- 2004 Diana Scahill
- 2005 Ralph Peter
- 2006 John Van Dommelen
- 2007 Peter Crane
- 2008 Rita Mary Cote
- 2009 Shelley McKenzie
- 2010 Dave Szollosy
- 2011 Bishop Paul-André Durocher
- 2012 Mary Ann Takacs
- 2013 Katharine Stevenson
- 2014 Leanne Thompson
- 2015 Michael Way Skinner
- 2016 Kevin Welbes Godin
- 2017 Teresa Hartnett
- 2018 Kelly Pickard-Lefterys
- 2019 Michael Pautler
- 2020 Ann Boniferro
- 2021 Nancy Davie
- 2022 Keri Calvesbert
- 2023 Rony Geadah
The Inaugural Seeds of Hope Award New Teacher Award for Excellence in Religious Education •2022 Jessica Thomson (Longchamps) of Sacred Heart High School, Ottawa Catholic District School Board.
•2023: Amanda Thériault-Massé from St Francis Catholic Elementary School Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board