Winning Teachers 2006
Gregg Lee
Business and Hospitality Teacher
St. Francis Xavier Secondary School
Mississauga
In the category of Beginning teacher the 2006 honouree is Gregg Lee. Mr. Lee teaches Grade 10 and 12 Business and Hospitality at St. Francis Xavier Secondary School in Mississauga.
Mr. Lee is certified to teach in the International Baccalaureate program, geared for highly academically-inclined students. But he also teaches workplace-bound students.
Still in his first five years of teaching, Mr. Lee is sharing a lifetime of experience with his students.
As a child, Mr. Lee watched his parents run a series of businesses including a pizza store, doughnut shop and a Jamaican restaurant. He grew up in kitchens, washing pizza pans and overseeing the night shift. As a result, he understands hospitality and he has a passion for business.
He established a successful and popular chapter of DECA, a student business club, at St. Francis Xavier. Its members have won hundreds of awards. In his hospitality program, he organized an “Iron Chef” competition giving teams of students a selection of ingredients to work with to come up with a winning menu. His students know the goal is never the award but to learn and gain as much experience as possible.
And that applies outside the business world as well. Among his many extra activities, Mr. Lee worked with a student to set up the school’s first Relay for Life which raised $40,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society.
A former student remembers, “his commitment to education beyond the classroom environment has lead many students to achieve beyond their report card.”
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