Bloom-A story of diversity and understanding

Shamim Murji found her experiences as a classroom teacher for 25 years (KG-Gr.8) most enjoyable as a teacher, mentor and learner. She also had opportunities to reveal as a volunteer teacher and mentor to Liberia Ghana and Uganda as a participant and team leader for Project Overseas, which is a Canadian Teachers' Federation and Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario joint venture to provide free quality professional development to teachers in the developing contours. From 2016-2017 she was seconded by the Ontario Ministry of Education to the Aga Khan Academy in Maputo. Her work in the summer of 2018 with strep kids in Jeevapur, a small village in the Gujarat, also confirmed to her the importance of English literacy as a life skill.Shamim lives with her husband in Brampton, Ontario Canada.