Mr. Aaron Durocher is an administrator who is passionate about providing an authentic Catholic education to the next generation of students. Originally from Montreal, Quebec, he obtained an M.A. in Teaching and Learning from McGill University and a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in History from Concordia University. Mr. Durocher has over 8 years of experience working in a variety of educational roles, including educational consultant, teacher, and teacher’s aide. Most recently, he served as a pastoral assistant for a Massachusetts Catholic parish, where he oversaw 35 ministries and led faith-formation classes. His experience has fostered an appreciation for the classical Catholic education model and the important role it plays in forming a student’s mind, body, and soul. As principal of Regina Maria Academy, Mr. Durocher will guide the students and staff towards all that is good, true, and beautiful, including a relationship with Our Lord Jesus Christ through Mary. He is truly grateful and honored to lead RMA. Mr. Durocher loves spending time with his wife and children, and in his moments of leisure, enjoys playing guitar and going camping.  

Mrs. Todd has been a teacher her entire life! Even in Kindergarten she loved being the teacher’s helper and being in charge of making sure her friend, Tim, wasn’t eating the paste! In Second Grade she volunteered to be a reading buddy to Kindergarteners and in 4th grade she was chosen as part of a group of students to learn sign language and act as interpreters for three deaf students who were being integrated into our school – this was the 70’s, folks, and a big deal! We all worked together all the way through graduation.

Mrs. Todd competed in gymnastics and began coaching gymnastics, which she did for many years even coaching her kids when they were little. She always loved children and babysat, taught art at summer camps and coached a lot as a teenager. When she was 19 she met a woman who owned a private preschool in Rye, NH who offered her a job. That was it! She was hooked! She loved teaching and started working on her Early Childhood certification, then her Associates. She decided she wanted to make teaching a career, so applied to college for her Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education – in ALASKA! Moving to Sitka, AK she got her degree while working on a tugboat and as a NOLS kayaking guide where she got to travel between Alaska and Mexico several times a year. She got to ski in the backcountry, climb mountains and rappel down them, fish and guide and she still loves to do it all! After graduating she was hired to teach Kindergarten in Mountain Village, AK - which is way out towards the mouth of the Yukon River. Teaching in a village with 900 Yupik Eskimo and 26 “white people” with no cars, no roads – just dogsleds, snowmobiles and planes was an eye-opening, amazing cultural experience and where she discovered her love of dogsled racing and teaching following Gardiner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory. Mrs. Todd also started flying up there, which is something she still loves to do and goes as often as possible with her son who is a pilot! Eventually, it was time to move back to NH. She started a kayak guiding business (which she still does every summer up north) and started teaching in the NH public schools in 1st and then 3rd grades. She met her wonderful husband, Bill (they’ve been married for 23 years) and had two amazing children, Will and Linnie. Through the years Mrs. Todd has been fortunate to help out and teach in some amazing schools that taught her the benefits and beauty of Montessori and Waldorf education- both

of which she tries to incorporate into her teaching as much as possible. In 2014, Mrs. Todd and her children began homeschooling and that journey is finishing up as her youngest, Linnie, graduates from high school. Linnie is training to be a firefighter/EMT and also teaches at Little Blessings Preschool with her Mom every Wednesday.

It was time to find some new adventures and Mrs. Todd is excited that RMA will be part of that! Besides teaching Kindergarten and 1st grade at RMA, she looks forward to continuing to do yoga, ski, snowmobile, kayak and flyfish at the family cabin near the Canadian border and enjoy family time here in Northwood on Lucas Pond.