September 25 marked the inauguration of Mackay Centre and Philip E. Layton schools’ new fully adapted playground. A VIP welcome along with a tour of the playground gave donors, special guests, English Montreal School Board (EMSB officials and media the opportunity to walk around and look at (and play on!) the dozen different structures. Some 100 people gathered in the gym afterwards to hear from a special panel involved in the project.

As the Inspirations Newspaper Ambassador for Compassionate Leadership , Samara O’Gorman toured many English Montreal School Board elementary schools and met with hundreds of students last year. In this capacitu she shared her message of leading with your heart. Samara is back again this year, offering her new presentation: “Leading With Your Heart 2.0,” as well as her one-hour poetry workshop, “Poetry’s Return to the Classroom.”