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Morag MacKendrick is the consummate professional. She has touched so many with her enthusiasm and vision for physical education. People truly love to work with her. She is a strong individual and a team player with a passion for her profession. Mo is a visionary, with an uncanny ability to be three or four steps ahead of the current debate and to arrive at possible solutions, to see potential pitfalls and to consider various alternatives before most of her colleagues.
Mo completed her BPE at the University of Calgary, her teaching certificate at UBC and her M.Ed. at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. She taught in Surrey Schools in 10 years before becoming a Resource Teacher. In the Surrey School District, Mo left an incredible legacy. She laid the foundation and curriculum for many programs. Her work in the area of assessment and evaluation has set a precedent for many physical education programs across Canada. Student Leadership programs and Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation and First Aid programs ere introduced to the Surrey Senior High School programs under Mo’s direction.
Provincially Mo has chaired numerous committees including the responses to the Sullivan Report on Education, the PE Coordinators Association, the BC PE Society and curriculum writing teams. She served two years as President of CAHPERD. It was during her term that the “D” was added to the association’s name. this was not just a coincidence. Mo MacKendrick worked with the dance professional members to make it a reality. She not only listened to their rationale, she used her considerable influence with the profession in general, through personal lobbying, written articles in the President’s Message section of the Journal and elsewhere, and by her personal dedication to dance as an important component of physical education, physical activity and active living.
Mo has contributed internationally, spending much of the summer of 1996 in Guyana. She traveled among the villages helping local teachers develop a new physical education curriculum. She has traveled to Malaysia and Barbados to work with professionals to develop curriculum and facilitate strategic planning and goal setting.
While a resource teacher, her supervisor wrote “In her workspace, Ms. MacKendrick is not only highly valued as a professional leader, but as an approachable individual with whom people want to be. She is known for her caring and consultative manner. Her colleagues seek her participation, counsel, enthusiasm and positive attitude. Above all she has a delightful sense of humour that she shares with others, and has the ability to laugh at herself first. She is appreciated for these qualities which contribute to her outstanding leadership among her peers.”
Mr. President, Mo MacKendrick’s personality, accomplishments and dedication to the profession of teaching physical and health education, recreation and dance are most worthy of local, provincial, national and international recognition and make her a worthy recipient of the R. Tait McKenzie Honour Award, in recognition of her distinguished service to the profession and unremitting zeal in promoting its aims and objects
1998 R. Tait McKenzie Honour Award recipient Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Accolades 1994-1996 CAHPERD President 1998 R. Tait McKenzie Honour Award recipient 2000 North American Society Award recipient
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