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president's corner
BIO - Reno Melatti, OTF President
The OTF Board of Governors elected Windsor Teacher Reno Melatti as the 66th President of the Ontario Teachers’ Federation in August 2009.
Educated in Ontario’s elementary and secondary Catholic schools, Reno Melatti is a graduate of the University of Windsor. He also holds a graduate degree in Curriculum and Administration from the University of Detroit.
A teacher for more than 37 years, Melatti has taught in both elementary and secondary panels in Ontario’s publicly funded Catholic schools. He has held the positions of teacher, department head and vice-principal.
As a history and social science teacher, Reno has always been deeply interested in social justice issues through the centuries. It is this sense of continuing the tradition of collective support that he has passed along to his high school students in Essex County, Kingsville and Leamington.
Throughout his career, Reno has taken a keen interest in teacher education and the preparation of the next generation of teachers. At every opportunity, he will engage his professional colleagues in discussion about improving pre-service programs. He is also a strong advocate of mentoring programs.
Melatti has also been an active member of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA) since his days as a beginning teacher. He has served on many work groups and committees both locally and provincially. He also been an elected member of the Provincial Executive of OECTA since 2002. Melatti was first elected to the OTF Board of Governors in 2000.
On his election as President, Melatti reminded the Governors that their influence as teachers is profound. He also acknowledged his own teachers who “recognized my thirst for knowledge and encouraged me to be whatever I chose to be.”
The Ontario Teachers’ Federation is the advocate for the teaching profession in Ontario and for its 160,000 teachers. OTF members are full-time, part-time and occasional teachers in all the publicly funded schools in the province—elementary, secondary, public, Catholic and francophone.
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