Angelica Calabretta
Mississauga,Canada
Summary
I believe every child deserves a champion who believes in them. My mission is to cultivate a classroom where students feel safe, respected, and empowered to take risks, celebrate their unique strengths, and grow academically, socially, and emotionally.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Grade 3 Teacher LTO
Sherwood Mills Public School-Peel District School Board
Mississauga, ON
09.2025 - Current
- Working as a grade 3 teacher at Sherwood Mills Public School.
- Responsible for teaching language arts, math, science, social studies, art and social emotional learning curriculum.
- Collaborating with other team members in the same grade level as well as other colleagues in other grades.
- Engage in interdisciplinary planning and transition meetings for students with exceptionalities.
- Plan and design various learning programs that meet students where they are at developmentally.
- Conduct student assessments and student led meetings that focus on the strengths and skill sets of students.
- Passionate about culturally responsive teaching and helping students find their voice.
- Enthusiastic about integrating social emotional pedagogy across curricular activities.
- Plan customized programming to special needs students and collaborate with an educational assistant in the classroom.
- Plan and collaborate on the EQAO process with grade 3 team, ISSP and admin team
- Executed the EQAO primary assessment in May 2026
Occasional Teacher (Supply)
Peel District School Board
Mississauga, ON
09.2024 - Current
- Worked at different elementary public schools in the Peel Region, as a primary and junior educator.
- Experience supplying in different grades at both divisions with a special interest in special education and ASD programming.
- Collaborated with teachers on programming and extra-curricular school activities.
- Followed and adhered to teacher lesson plans left for the day and implementing outlined accommodations and modifications for students.
- Proficient at teaching different subject areas at primary and junior grade levels and innovating my own lessons while supplying if plans are not left.
- Made a point to network with the staff and school community to build rapport and positive relationships.
ESL- Core French- Health LTO
St. Sebastian Catholic School-Toronto Catholic Board
Toronto, ON
01.2025 - 06.2025
- Responsible for working with ELL students from grades 2-8 within an integrated classroom setting and providing STEPS assessments to these learners
- Conducted the initial oral interview with ELL students to learn about them and their skillsets and programmed accordingly to support their English language acquisition.
- Facilitated community circles, classroom discussions forums, classroom projects, community events and leadership opportunities for these learners.
- Taught Core French to grades 1-2, focused on oral and listening skills with the students.
- Implemented initial assessments to determine the learning level of students
- Focused on French salutations and greetings, days of the week, months of the year, colours, numbers 1-50 (counting and reciting), animals (farm, domestic and zoo) and weather words in French.
- Taught Health to grades 4-6 and focused on important themes and topics for each grade level related to human health and wellness.
- These themes included, but are not limited to, mental health literacy and stigma, nutrition and healthy eating, importance of food labels, bullying types, bystander vs. upstander and sexual health.
Student Teacher
St. Julia Catholic Elementary School- Dufferin Peel
Mississauga, ON
03.2024 - 05.2024
- Collaborated with grade 1 teacher on student portraits, learning styles and any special in-school services such as literacy intervention programs that students were accessing.
- Responsible for teaching a variety of lessons related to language arts, mathematics, religion, and art.
- Taught “making inferences” unit for language and used a variety of strategies to teach this unit including read alouds, critical thinking brainstorm sessions, think-pair-shares, group work and activity worksheets.
- Taught religion lessons on prayer and students’ relationship with God and used the Ontario Catholic Curriculum for teaching religion.
- Conducted guided reading assessments for small groups using Leveled Literacy Intervention Kits and PM Benchmarks.
- Attended a math professional development on Mathology and learned how to utilize the Mathology curriculum in the classroom.
- Designed lessons on mapping and using a map for social studies “my local community” unit.
Student Teacher
Fairview Public School-Peel District School Board
Mississauga, ON
01.2024 - 03.2024
- Collaborated with the grade 3 host teacher on student portraits, learning styles and assessment protocols and acquired background knowledge on student success criteria.
- Performed informal and formal student assessments including, PM Benchmarks, Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Kits, quizzes and tests, final projects, UFLI and guided reading circles.
- Designed a formal math unit on linear measurement, which spanned about one month and consisted of multiple mini lesson series that focused on mathematical concepts such as measuring in centimeters, meters and kilometers, and calculating area and perimeter of polygons.
- Implemented a variety of math tools and platforms to teach the linear measurement unit, including but not limited to, Google Classroom, JUMP Math, Google Slides, Math Playground, PBS Kids, Nelson Textbook, manipulatives, and measurement tools (i.e. ruler and meter stick), YouTube videos and math learning centres.
- Helped to contribute to Individual Education Plan profiles with the support of the ISSP support team and read through student IEPs.
Education
Master of Science - Elementary Education, Birth-6
Niagara University-Lewiston
Lewiston, New York05-2024
Bachelor of Arts Honours - Health Studies Major, Philosophy Minor
Queen’s University-Kingston
Kingston, ON06-2013
Skills
- Parent-teacher communication
- Collaborative teaching
- Data-driven instruction
- Project-based learning
- Inquiry-based learning
- Reading comprehension
- Special education
- Social-emotional learning
- Problem-solving skills
- Critical thinking
- Team collaboration
- Active listening
- Relationship building
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Certification
- Ontario College of Teachers, Primary and Junior Divisions (K-6), (reference #750188) August 27, 2024
- New York State Initial Teaching Certification, Childhood Education (1-6)- May 9, 2024
Additional Qualification Courses
- Special Education Part 1 AQ, Lakehead University (Spring 2026)
- English Second Language Part 1 AQ, ETFO, (Summer 2026), to commence
- Please see extensive mental health and special education trainings on last page
Professional Development
- New Teacher Induction Program in school release training, PDSB (2026)
- Differentiating for students with ADHD and FASD, Peel District School Board (2026)
- “Reading for the Love of It” Conference, Toronto (2024)
- Board-wide training through Peel District School Board on the new language curriculum. with a specific focus on “Strand B.” (2024)
- Inservice Mathology Training, Dufferin Peel District School Board (2024)
- “LitLearn Conference” presented by SyllaSense Inc. (2024)
- Mental Health First Aid Supporting Older Adults (Virtual)-Canadian Mental Health Commission (2022)
- Fear & Anxiety: What it’s all about? - Canadian Mental Health Association (2022)
- Mental Health First Aid Standard (Virtual)- Canadian Mental Health Association 2021
- Canadian Mental Health Association (National Conference)- “Deconstructing Normal”; Virtual Platform October 2021
- Mental Health First Aid for Youth (in person)- Canadian Mental Health Association (2021)
- Crisis Response Virtual Training (Caring for Others)- Canadian Mental Health Association (2020)
- Strengthening Children’s Mental Health- High Five Training, City of Toronto (2020)
- Applied Suicide Intervention Training Program (ASIST)- (2019)
- Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) Certification- Child Enrichment Center (2018)
- Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) Training- Crisis Prevention Institute (2018)
Interests
Community volunteering and charity, mental health advocacy, workshop facilitating
Timeline
Grade 3 Teacher LTO
Sherwood Mills Public School-Peel District School Board
09.2025 - Current
ESL- Core French- Health LTO
St. Sebastian Catholic School-Toronto Catholic Board
01.2025 - 06.2025
Occasional Teacher (Supply)
Peel District School Board
09.2024 - Current
Student Teacher
St. Julia Catholic Elementary School- Dufferin Peel
03.2024 - 05.2024
Student Teacher
Fairview Public School-Peel District School Board
01.2024 - 03.2024
Bachelor of Arts Honours - Health Studies Major, Philosophy Minor
Queen’s University-Kingston
Master of Science - Elementary Education, Birth-6
Niagara University-Lewiston