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Into the Schools

In April of 2001, Bill began to think about expanding beyond media to develop a set of Our Hidden Heroes learning resources for schools. At that point he decided to form the Hidden Heroes Education Society (a not-for-profit organization) and in early 2002, with support from two Nanaimo teachers, Mary-Lynn Epps and Ray Schlitz, he created a Hidden Heroes WebQuest, which he later developed into his own set of amateur lesson plans and teacher support materials.

These materials were extremely well received by students, teachers and administrators in School District 68. A few years later, the project took on a new and exciting potential when the Ministry of Education’s District Review Team found teachers working with the lesson plans designed by Bill. They deemed the program to be a “promising practice that should be further developed."

By the early summer of 2006, with financial support from School District 68, as well as many local businesses, and most important of all, exceptional financial support from Sprott-Shaw Community College, he was able to recruit a Development Team of professional educators and offer each of them an honorarium. This is now a team of three full-time teachers who are enthusiastically dedicated to developing the Our Hidden Heroes program, which is now being used in BC, Alberta, Ontario, and Western Quebec.