Olivia DiGiammarino

WORK EXPERIENCE 

St. Mildred’s-Lightbourn School- PT Learning Strategist, Middle School (Sept 2024-current) 

• Working collaboratively with administration and students in establishing equitable practices in curriculum objectives and lesson delivery. Subject expert on disability advocacy, accessibility, Learning Disabilities, Canadian Human Rights and Education Law. Develops and implements Individualized Education Plans and review meetings. Facilitates and supports Student Success Meetings designed to offer support to students with and without exceptionalities or identification in need of more specific support. Fostered opportunities for Professional Development among Middle School Faculty with respect to Universal Design for Learning and Equitable Assessment.

University of Toronto, OISE Graduate Research Assistant (Dr. Kathy Broad) - Toronto Ontario (Sept 2024-current) 

• Responsibilities included but not limited to collaborating on pre-existing research projects particular to the Masters of Teaching program at the University of Toronto. Skills include collecting and cleaning data; preparing datasets to be analyzed; to run analysis and troubleshoot collaboratively. Consider a Critical Disability Studies lens during research and interview facilitation. 

York University - PT Research Assistant (Dr. Eva Peisachovich, Faculty of Health, York University.) - Toronto, Ontario (Feb 2023-Aug 2023) 

• Responsibilities included but not limited to conducting a scoping review; to run date through Covidence clean and prepare datasets to be analyzed using Covidence; to run analysis and troubleshoot; to write methods and results and prepare tables to provide interpretation; any other research needs required by project group 

Holy Name of Mary College School - Teacher - Mississauga, Ontario (September 2018-2021) 

• 2019-2022 Learning Enrichment Lead  grades 5-12: (September 2019- 2022)

Department Head of the Learning Enrichment Department (Special Education). Working collaboratively with administration in developing a department to support students with Learning Disabilities, exceptionalities, truancy and mental health concerns. 

• 2018-2019 Grade 6 Classroom Teacher: 

Created an inclusive environment for students that inspired collaborative learning and critical thinking. Communicated with parents and guardians through Google Classroom and email with an encouragement of parent participation in learning opportunities at home.