Education Team
Meet Our Team
Our Education team is small but mighty! We are a team of education experts working to support a more connected watershed community.
Nicole Hamley
Manager of Education
Nicole is the Manager of Education at the Conservation Authority and loves helping people discover the wonders of nature. She has spent her career connecting people to their local watersheds through education program delivery and design, project management, stakeholder and community relationships, and partnership development. While managing her team of expert educators is her primary job function by day, she enjoys spending time outside honing her naturalist skills and exploring the outdoors with her family. Nicole is an Ontario Certified Teacher with a BScH, Environmental Biology and is a graduate of the Ontario Master Naturalist Program.
Trevor Stanford
Education Coordinator
When he’s not strumming his guitar, fishing the shores of Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay, or paddling, Trevor is busy helping inspire and connect students with nature at the Scanlon Creek Nature Centre. With more than 15 years experience connecting people of all ages to their local environment through outdoor education program design and delivery, community engagement programming and partnership development, Trevor is an expert at leading outdoor exploration. Trevor holds a BA in Environmental Studies, is fluent in French, and is a certified Forest School Practitioner.
Cassandra Connell
Education Program Specialist
Cassandra knows that there’s nothing better than learning in a forest, park or meadow. She is passionate about connecting children with nature and works hard to achieve this goal by designing and delivering curriculum connected, hands-on, inquiry based, and experiential learning opportunities to students and community partners. As an Ontario Certified Teacher with an HBA, Geography, you’ll often find Cassandra having fun alongside her students, whether it be jumping in mud puddles, searching for salamanders, and even checking under logs to see what bugs can be found! Cassandra is our early learning expert and certified Forest School Practitioner.
Katie Biddie
Community Engagement Specialist
Katie is passionate about sustainability and is on a mission to bring solutions-focused climate change education to classrooms and communities across the Lake Simcoe watershed. She is an Ontario Certified Teacher, equipped with her B.ScH, B.Ed and MLCE (Master of Leadership and Community Engagement) degrees. Katie has a decade of experience connecting people of all ages to the environment through outdoor education, nature interpretation and community engagement programming.
Logan Barnes
Outreach Educator
Logan is extremely enthusiastic about teaching in outdoor settings and loves to witness the wonder and curiosity that comes along with learning outside. As an Ontario Certified Teacher, Logan brings hands on outdoor experiences to students in their schoolyards and communities to help them recognize the importance of protecting the natural environment across our watershed. Logan loves to learn alongside her students, and always looks forward to seeing what they will discover in their learning!
Stew MacPherson
Instructor
Having grown up camping with his family, Stew developed a passion for the outdoors at an early age, ultimately leading him to a career in Outdoor Education. As an Ontario Certified Teacher with a degree in Outdoor Recreation, Stew loves helping people develop outdoor skills like fire making and shelter building. Specializing in leadership, Stew excels at bringing out the best in individuals and teams.
Who to Contact
Education Team
✆ 905-895-1281
✆ 1-800-465-0437
✉ education@LSRCA.on.ca 
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