Zoe Branigan-Pipe

Zoe Branigan-Pipe

Teacher – HWDSB

@zbpipe

Zoe is a qualified Ontario Teacher who has taught in the classroom for the last 16 years as well as consultant and leadership roles intermittently.  She is an award-winning teacher, including 2014 Microsoft Educator of the Year and just this year she was awarded First Place Ken Spencer National Award for Teaching and Innovation. She is presently a teacher for the Gifted Program at the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board in Ontario and Instructor for Brock University, Faculty of Education. Her experiences and years of teaching have been documented through own professional blog at: http://pipedreams-education.ca. Zoe is a strong advocate for open learning models that emphases inquiry, critical thinking, play and game-based learning and social networking in education. She shares a glimpse into her Makerspace Enrichment and Innovation Classroom here: https://youtu.be/p7xVW7ojtbs