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Amber Scotchburn
CEO & Founder, Amber Scotchburn Training Consultants

Amber Scotchburn is the owner and lead consultant of Amber Scotchburn Training Consultants. Ms. Scotchburn’s 12 years of counseling and educating expertise has been established through her creation and implementation of leading-edge Educational & Training programs for students, community members, and educators alike. Combined with her energy, enthusiasm and initiative this has resulted in a solid commitment to building trust-based relationships throughout learning communities.

Amber Scotchburn, has been a career educator for over a decade. For ten years, she was with the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, responsible for implementing, negotiating, facilitating, developing, and mentoring career education and cooperative education programs province wide.

Ms. Scotchburn’s diverse educational background, including a Bachelor of Social Work & Bachelor of Education, fused with her passion for people has empowered her to be a dedicated leader in developing knowledge and educational methodology. She has demonstrated first-class creativity throughout a decade of innovative curriculum development.

Ms. Scotchburn is a committed continuous learner and will be a ubiquitous presence while she leads the strategy, creation, and execution of all contracts. She has been recognized as talented in her ability to absorb new information and go beyond ‘the box’ in her solution management. As a pro-active consultant, she has innovative and result focused approaches that will make significant contributions to the shared success of the needs and goals of all clients.

Among Ms. Scotchburn’s skills and accomplishments are:

• Delivery of over 20 Guidance and Career Education workshops to a wide range of community members: university bound high school students, students transitioning from school to work, special needs populations such as those identified as at-risk youth and those with specific learning needs in literacy and numeracy.
  • Individual Education Plan Guide: demonstrates Ms. Scotchburn’s ability to teach to a variety of students.
  • Guidance and Career Studies Curriculum: demonstrates curriculum Ms. Scotchburn is a recognized expert in.
  • Career Path Program: demonstrates Ms. Scotchburn’s ability to teach a variety of career paths.
• Recognized as an expert in Career Education, she was contracted to advise on the Career Studies text book, Career Studies 10, for Nelson Publishers.
• Project manager and writer contracted by Curriculum Services Canada (CSC). The team wrote the manual titled, “Alternative Co-operative Experiential Program (ACE)”. The manual is designed to offer integrated curriculum combined with co-operative education experience for credit-deficient secondary school students.
• Sole author of a “Cooperative Education Manual” for Archbishop Romero Catholic Secondary School. Cooperative Education is a planned learning experience that takes< place in the community and is designed to assist all students in making career decisions.
• Analyzed and revised the “Career Planning Profiles for the Career Education Course” as part of a team of four Catholic and Public Boards under the sponsorship of theOntario School Counsellors’ Association
• Conducted Training Workshops on the “Career Education Course Exemplars” for all secondary school educators across the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board
• Developed and delivered Train the Trainer workshops on How-to-Teach Career Education material for all secondary school educators across four Ontario School Boards
• Panel Member for the “Guide to the Directed Use of the Career Studies Course Profile.” Partnership between Ontario School Counsellor Association (OSCA), Dufferin-Peel Catholic and Public Boards and the Halton Catholic and Public Boards
• Created an ”Internet Career Planning Reference Manual” for St. Joseph Secondary School’s Guidance Department