AERA has altered its 2020 meeting to a non-place-based format. Accordingly, The Faculty of Education’s reception will no longer occur.
Storybooks Canada for Multilingual Families during Covid-19
When: Friday, May 15, 2020 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Dr. Bonny Norton’s Zoom webinar on May 15, 2020, will demonstrate how Storybooks Canada can be used in homes for online language and literacy learning during Covid-19 (storybookscanada.ca). Parents and children are the primary audiences. The Storybooks Canada platform is a free, user-friendly digital site with 40 illustrated stories, for children and youth, in the most widely spoken languages of Canada. Parents and children will learn how to use the audio feature, toggle between languages, download stories in a range of formats, and connect the stories to the new BC Curriculum. Q & A included.
The event is being organized by the Vancouver School Board with the help of the Settlement Workers in Schools (SWiS) program. This event for families follows two online Zoom presentations that Dr. Norton gave to teachers in the North Vancouver School Board on May 4 (75 participants) and the Vancouver School Board on May 7 (95 participants).
Researcher of the Year, Social Science and Humanities – Dr. Sabre Cherkowski
May 5, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Sabre Cherkowski, OSE, for receiving the UBCO 2020 Researcher of the Year, Social Sciences and Humanities.
Associate Professor Sabre Cherkowski is a catalyst for sustainable improvement in schools and leadership transformation within educational systems. She is recognized internationally for her innovative research examining the impact of positive learning environments on creating a flourishing effect in schools. Her work is aimed at nurturing the next generation to have a transformative impact on society.
Join us in honouring Dr. Cherkowski accomplishments on May 20, 2020 at 4 p.m. through a social online awards celebration. Register for the event online.
Canadian Committee for Graduate Students in Education Mentorship Award – Dr. André Mazawi
Congratulations to Dr. André Mazawi, EDST, recipient of the 2020 Canadian Committee for Graduate Students in Education (CCGSE) Mentorship Award. The CCGSE Mentorship Award is presented annually in recognition of exceptional mentorship at the level of graduate instruction. According to the citation from the CCGSE,
“The quality of the nominations received this year were exceptional, and it made it even more difficult to arrive at a winner, making you an exceptional winner. A sample comment from graduate student reviewers are included below:”
” All letters were very passionate and provided a great case for the nominee to be the recipient for the award. As a doctoral student, I was very pleased to read about the work this nominee is doing and the amount of support going on.”
Clifford J. Anastasiou Award in Education
The Anastasiou family has donated and established an Award in loving memory of Clifford (Kip) Anastasiou, a Faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and Science Education (currently the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy) from 1962 to 1994. The Anastasiou family has been very generous with their philanthropy to UBC and this award in Kip’s memory and will make a huge impact on the lives of Teacher Candidates who are pursuing to teach STEM education.
Kip’s interest and expertise in Curriculum Development led to work in a number of important international curriculum projects over his distinguished career. His primary teaching and research interests focused on the development of curriculum materials focusing primarily on the fields of environmental education and health education. The most notable of these was his work at the Education Development Center in Cambridge Massachusetts and his Directorship of the Primary Math and Science Peace Corp Program in Kuala Lumpur. In the 1980’s Kip played a leadership role in the establishment of the Pacific Circle Consortium (PCC), an initiative in international co-operation between educational research and development in the Pacific Region. Under Kip’s direction and leadership, this local Press was initiated in 1971 as a vehicle to publish a series of teachers’ guides emanating from the Vancouver Environmental Education Project – a collaborative project with a group of local teachers writing curriculum guides using the local environment to study a variety of science, math, and environment-related issues. His legacy of initiating Pacific Educational Press carried on for decades and it became a significant educational press publishing over 300 educational resources across a variety of subject areas, including: Aboriginal and First Nations Education, Mathematics, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies, Curriculum Studies, and Family Studies/Home Economics.
The Anastasiou family’s most recent gift builds on their support of the Faculty of Education, STEM education, and the Teacher Candidates. We are very thankful for their generosity. Receiving financial support can be life-changing for our students.
First award available for the 2020/2021 winter session.
Tell Us Your Story
Our generous donors have impacted and touched many lives by supporting students with financial resources when they need it the most. UBC Faculty of Education is working towards producing a short video and stories for our website, which encompass the theme of thanking our donors for their generosity and success stories supported by their generosity. If you have a story about how someone’s generosity helped you or would simply like to say thank you to our supportive donors, we would love to hear from you.
Please email Sukhjot Pummar at Sukhjot.pummar@ubc.ca by 12:00pm on Tuesday, June 30th, 2020.
Further details will be provided to those interested in participating.
LLED Apprentice Workshop: What is Your Digital Story?
When: Thursday, May 21, 2020 | 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Where: Online only, via Zoom
Presenters: Dr. Derek Gladwin
Registration: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a3qY61LIlRPVpTD
Deadline for registration is Monday, May 18th.
This workshop is offered to LLED students only.
What is your digital story? Developing an effective online identity
What is your current digital story and how might you rewrite it to reflect your professional goals as a graduate student in education? What happens when other colleagues or prospective employers search for you on Google? Does your digital footprint contain a cohesive story?
This workshop explores these questions by affording participants the time and space to reflect on their current online “digital identity” and analyze their presence and behaviour on the internet as a process of professionalization. The focus will be to discuss how graduate students can craft an effective professional digital identity through internet searches. Participants will also learn how to develop tools and enhance digital footprints through images, titles, taglines, websites, streaming and social media. The ultimate aim is to gain practical knowledge and acquire tools to create a professional digital identity within the duration of the workshop, while also developing a longer-term plan.
Note: Participants must have both a computer (e.g., desktop or laptop) and mobile device (e.g., smart phone or tablet). No digital media experience is necessary.
The Spring 2020 issue is now online!
Authors: Penney Clark (EDCP) and Mona Gleason (EDST), Co-editors
Published: 29-04-2020, Historical Studies in Education / Revue d’histoire de l’éducation
Historical Studies in Education / Revue d’histoire de l’éducation editors, Penney Clark (EDCP) and Mona Gleason (EDST), invite you to click on the above link to view the following:
Special Contribution
In Memoriam: J. Donald Wilson, 1936-2019 | William Bruneau
Focus on Higher Education
« [L’]utilisateur du bataillon de jeunes Québécois » : le patronat québécois et les institutions universitaires, 1980-2012 | Maxime Colleret
Tripwires and Whisky Tenors: Student-Faculty Relationships in Alberta’s Normal Schools During the 1930s | Shawn W. Brackett
“One of the Boys”: Women at the Ontario Veterinary College in the Twentieth Century | Kevin Woodger and Elizabeth A. Stone
Articles
Child Labour, Parental Neglect, School Boards, and Teacher Quality: School Inspector Reports on the Supply and Demand of Schooling in Mid-nineteenth-century Sweden | Germund Larsson and Johannes Westberg
Sputnik’s Children: History of the Major Work Program in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Schools, 1954–1972 | Reesa Sorin
Convent Class Struggle: Lay Sisters and Choir Sisters in America | Brian Titley
Book Reviews
Denis Simard, Jean-François Cardin et Olivier Lemieux, dir., La pensée éducative et les intellectuels au Québec. La génération 1915-1930 | Normand Baillargeon
Claire IsaBelle, dir., Le système scolaire franco-ontarien. D’hier à aujourd’hui pour le plein potentiel des élèves | Jacques Touré
Xavier Riondet, Rita Hofstetter et Henri Louis Go, dir., Les acteurs de l’Éducation nouvelle au XXe siècle : itinéraires et connexions | Katryne Ouellet
Stephen Jackson, Constructing National Identity in Canadian and Australian Classrooms: The Crown of Education | George Buri
Kirsty Robertson, Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Culture, Museums | Carly Ciufo
Michelle Purdy, Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools | Ashley Dennis
Jean Barman, Iroquois in the West | Crystal Fraser
Jason Ellis, A Class by Themselves?: The Origins of Special Education in Toronto and Beyond | Jane Gaskell
Jane Griffith, Words Have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools | Scott McLaren
Dawn Wallin and Janice Wallace, eds., Transforming Conversations: Feminism and Education in Canada since 1970 | Pamela Rogers
David A. Gamson, The Importance of Being Urban: Designing the Progressive School District, 1890-1940 | Campbell F. Scribner
Open UBC Webinar Series
Planning a project engaging in open practices? Interested in learning about workflows and processes to make your open education, open data, or open science project a success?
A full list of the Open UBC webinars can be found here.
Reminder: B.Ed Nominations for Awards and Prizes
Deadline for nomination in all B.Ed. options: May 30, 2020.
BEd teacher candidates are eligible for a number of scholarships and awards. These scholarships and awards recognize outstanding performance in coursework, practicum, and the BEd program overall. On the evening prior to graduation in November, award and scholarship winners are recognized at the Bachelor of Education Awards Ceremony.
Course instructors and faculty advisors may nominate teacher candidates, and TCs may nominate themselves for an award or scholarship by submitting completed nomination forms.
General Awards information: teach.educ.ubc.ca/students/awards
