Eleanor McIntosh Is an Administrative Officer with the Durham District School board overseeing a portfolio of 40 K-12 schools. Over the past 12 years, She has held positions as a classroom teacher with specialty in math, chemistry and physical education, student success teacher (grades 7-10) and has consulted in areas of special education, equity and inclusive education, and leadership. Eleanor has presented at conferences across the Greater Toronto Area on topics including school culture reform, 21st century instruction, culturally responsive pedagogy, parent engagement, and progressive discipline.

Prior to joining the school board she work as an Assistant Language Teacher at an academic high school in Central Japan for two years. Eleanor has a breadth of world experience having travelled throughout Asia, India, Tanzania, Egypt, Europe, various parts of the Caribbean, South America and the United States. She is part of the interim executive of the Ontario Alliance of Black School Educators (ONABSE) and the current Chair of the Durham Black Educators’s Network, a proactive organization seeking to optimize the educational experiences for educators and families of the Black diaspora. She holds an Hons. BSc. in Biochemistry and an Hons B.A. in Physical Education. She is currently a Masters of Education candidate at Niagara University.