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The Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning is the largest of five departments within OISE. With a diverse community of tenured, tenure-stream faculty, and lecturers, the department offers a wide range of graduate courses and programs relating to academic scholarship and professional practice. 

CTL News and Upcoming Events...
 

• CTL faculty member, Indigo Esmonde was awarded the Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation for her research on social justice in mathematics education.

• Congratulations to CTL doctoral student, Jesse Bazzul and CTL faculty member, Heather Sykes, for being one of two finalists for the Best Paper Award for 2011 for their paper, The secret identity of a biology textbook: Straight and naturally sexed, published in the journal Cultural Studies of Science Education (CSSE).

• Congratulations to CTL PhD graduate, Tonya Callaghan, for being  selected as this year’s winner of the Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education (CASWE) Doctoral Award for outstanding dissertation. Tonya Callaghan will be receiving the CASWE Doctoral Award at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education Congress in Waterloo during a special CASWE celebration on Wednesday, May 30th.

• The Shifting Plane of Performance, April 26-28 at Hart House. For more information, visit the Centre for Media and Culture in Education's (CMCE) website.

• Congratualtions to CTL Ph.D. Candidate, David Goldberg, for receiving the 2012 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award!

• Congratulations to CTL former doctoral student, Tim Fletcher, for receiving the Canadian Association for Teaching (CATE) Recognition Award for Theses and Dissertations in Teacher Education.  The award will be presented to him at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education's (CSSE) Annual Conference held at Wilfrid Laurier University on Tuesday, May 29th, 2012.

• CTL's Shelley Stagg Peterson has been elected to serve a three-year term on the International Reading Association's Board of Directors. 

• CTL's Indigo Esmonde was awarded a grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation's (CFI) Leader's Opportunity Fund (LOF) to study the relationship between social interaction and mathematics learning.

• William Waters Symposium on Urban Education Public Lecture - Activism in Education: Pushing Limits in Increasingly Conservative Times, April 25 from 6-8pm at the Isabel Bader Theatre.  RSVP: wwsymposium.oise@utoronto.ca (limited seating).

• Routledge recently published Teacher Learning that Matters: Internaitonal Perspectives co-edited by CTL's Mary Kooy.

• Information Age Publishing, Inc. recently published CTL's John Miller's book Transcendental Learning: The Educational Legacy of Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody and Thoreau.

• Routledge recently published Knowledge that Counts in a Global Community co-authored by CTL's John Wallace.

• The William Waters Scholarships in Urban Education is currently accepting applications.  Eligible applicants are experienced teachers entering a full-time Master’s program at OISE with an interest in questions of social justice and school success for students from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods attending underperforming schools.  For more information, click here.

• Congratulations to CTL’s Lara Cartmale, Manager, and OISE’s Denise Makovac-Badali, Director of Research, who have each won an Excellence Award from the Society for Research Administrators, International (SRA).  Lara and Denise accepted their awards October 25 at the SRA annual meeting in Montreal.  The Excellence Awards recognize individuals who have excelled at expanding the knowledge and tools of research administration...more.

• President Naylor honours U of T staff for excellence through innovation, including CTL's own Lara Cartmale, Manager of Administrative Services...more.

• Canadian Scholars’ Press recently released CTL faculty member, Diane Gérin-Lajoie’s book Youth, Language and Identity: Portraits of Students from English-language High Schools in the Montreal Area….more.