Join Dr. Jan Hare, UBC’s Dean of Education, pro tem, for the second annual Dean’s Community Engagement Series, highlighting key questions and significant priorities engaging educators today.
This virtual session will feature Dr. Jo Lampert of La Trobe University (Australia) and Teresa Downs of Gold Trail School District (B.C.). Together they will explore common challenges that leadership may encounter when building relationships, trust and community within schools and districts, as well as opportunities that may arise. This conversation will touch on topics such as:
- – preparing culturally-sensitive, high-quality teachers,
- – attracting Indigenous and local teachers who understand the communities in which they will teach,
- – addressing challenges of teacher shortages and hard-to-staff schools,
- – contending with the challenges and opportunities brought forward by the pandemic.
Event Details
Date: October 11, 2022
Time: 4:30-6:00pm PDT
Format: Online via Zoom
Learn more about the 2022-2023 Dean’s Community Engagement Series
About Dr. Jo Lampert
Jo Lampert is Associate Dean, Partnerships and Professor of Social Inclusion and Teacher Education at La Trobe University. She leads the School’s Social Justice and Diversity Education Disciplinary Area, was co-founder of the National Exceptional Teaching for Disadvantaged Schools program and is currently Director of the Commonwealth and State funded employment-based Nexus M. Teach (Secondary) which prepares social justice teachers in Victoria for hard-to-staff schools.
Jo’s internationally recognized research has included Indigenous education, poverty and disadvantage and community-engagement. She has been Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council grants including a current project on co-design and educational policy in Indigenous education. She has led large government and industry funded research including a study on the impact of initiatives to support teachers in hard-to-staff schools. Jo has over 85 publications, has research collaborations in Canada, the US, the UK, and Spain and is Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. She also has a background in literary studies and children’s literature.
About Teresa Downs
Teresa Downs is the Superintendent of Schools for the Gold Trail School District. Teresa completed her practicum in Gold Trail and has chosen to stay in the district since that time. As a small rural district, the opportunities afforded to her have been vast and rewarding. She currently also serves as the President of the BC School Superintendents Association.
