NEWS & EVENTS

JANUARY 2008

DEAN'S MESSAGE: Welcome to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Since 1907, our community of students, alumni, faculty, and staff has helped build the University of Toronto’s reputation as one the leading centres in the world for the study of education...More

NEWS: Carol Rolheiser to lead Office of Teaching Advancement
The Provost's announcement of Ken Bartlett's reappointment as Director of the Office of Teaching Advancement for 18 more months was followed by the great news that Carol Rolheiser will serve as Director for a 5-year term, from July 1, 2009 until June 30, 2014. Carol, currently OISE's Associate Dean, Teacher Education, has been recognized for her career-long commitment to teaching excellence, receiving several major external awards, and also is a recipient of the President's Teaching Award...More

ISSUES THAT MATTER: School Safety
The Toronto District School Board released its Final Report on School Safety yesterday. The report, commissioned after the shooting death of high school student Jordan Manners at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate last May, contains more than 100 recommendations to improve safety. Julian Falconer, head of the panel that produced the report, says TDSB is woefully underfunded to manage its diverse student populations, citing cutbacks to supports for at-risk students. Read the full report here.

Media coverage: Why schools aren't safe

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OISE AND ADLER TO JOIN FORCES TO GRANT JOINT CERTIFICATE IN PROFESSIONAL COACHING
The department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology has recently teamed up with the Adler Institute to jointly offer a joint certificate in professional coaching. Adler International Learning has been selected to provide coach education for the newly-formed Certificates in Leadership Coaching jointly sponsored by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto and Adler. Graduates of the ICF-accredited Adler Professional Coaching program will be granted a joint certificate...More

ALUMNI WHO INSPIRE: Award-winning leader to chair Premier’s Education Awards Panel

Akela Peoples, FEUT and OISE alumna, will chair the selection panel for the Premier's Awards for Teaching Excellence. The awards recognize exceptional educators and support staff and the contribution they make to student success. Akela Peoples is Co-founder, President and CEO of Youth in Motion, a national organization that develops and implements dynamic career programs for youth through mentoring programs, career learning days and the creation of Canada’s Top 20 Under 20 program for young leaders...More

STUDENT RESEARCH PROFILE: Gail Prasad
Degree & Year: Master of Arts, Year 1
Program: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning; Comparative, International Development Education
Department: Second Language Education
Advisor: Normand Labrie
Thesis/research project: Second-language literacy development and practices in elementary multilingual classrooms...More

ALUMNI HONOURS: Shijing Xu
Shijing Xu’s dissertation, In Search of Home on Landscapes in Transition: Narratives of Newcomer Families’ Cross-Cultural Schooling Experience, won the 2007 Narrative and Research in Education Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Outstanding Dissertation Award, presented at AERA’s annual meetings in Chicago...More

In January Your Voice, TVO's online parenting series at tvoparents.com, focuses on three current issues in education: Culture in the Classroom examines the connection between ethnicity, identity and learning; Learning with Dyslexia explores how children's learning is affected by dyslexia; and School's In looks at the pros and cons of year-round schooling.

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