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Read Judy Grant's article on the volcanic eruption in St. Vincent. Judy is a Vincentian born, PhD Candidate in AECD/OISE and the Collaborative Program in Women and Gender Studies at UofT.

Dr. Nick Scarfo and Justice Marvin Zuker have released the third edition of Inspiring the Future: The New Teachers Guide to the Law.

Workers' Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-Liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestión

This book develops a social theory of autogestión - a politically prefigurative and ethically infused notion of workers' control and self-management that promises to unleash radical social change for work organizations, surrounding communities, and beyond.

Denise Makovac, Higher Ed graduate student writes about lessons from 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic for Ontario classrooms today.

Sachin Maharaj, PhD, in Toronto Star on ending white supremacy and the need to change how we think and speak about racialized people. Sachin teaches educational leadership and policy at LHAE/OISE.

Professor Marvin Zuker writes about "Essential workers, educators and the vaccine" in online The Lawyer's Daily

Professor Carol Campbell is the member of The International Council of Education Advisers for the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of the Scottish Government and a co-author of the newly published report with advice on navigating the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond for the Scottish education system.

Higher Ed Prof Glen Jones, and grads Merli Tamtik and Roopa Desai Trilokekar, led the book project and have been recognized for their leadership by the Canadian Bureau of International Education (CBIE).

Through poetry, essays, photography and digital art this project was a pedagogy of public education and awareness within the academy and community spheres and depicts the potential impacts of surveillance for Covid-19 and the resilience of communities. E-Zine was produced with funds from the U of T Covid-19 Student Engagement Award.

Read Professor Marvin Zuker's article on TDSB's practice on student suspension records.

Lopez, an associate professor, teaching stream in ELP, on improving student access.

Educators worry COVID era is irreparably harming students' future.

Ontario's back-to-school plan isn't working, and without a new approach, children will suffer over the long term

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Edited by Merli Tamtik, Roopa Desai Trilokekar and Glen A. Jones

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of international education policy in Canada, tracing the complex history of when, how, and why it emerged as a policy area of strategic importance.

ELP Prof Katyn Chmielewski and Omar Khan, a computer scientist, analyzed TDSB registration survey results and concluded that parents in the most economically advantaged schools overwhelmingly opted for in-person rather than virtual school. In contrast, a smaller share of parents in middle and lower-income schools preferred in-person school.

On July 31, the Ontario Ministry of Education announced that it would allow parents to choose between sending their children to school in the fall or taking part in school board-provided remote learning.This creates questions of equity and access.

Professor Carol Campbell and colleagues released two new reports: Considerations for re-opening Ontario schools - Principles, ideas, & strategies and A gentle return to school: Go slow to go fast

Gwendolyn Cleveland is a PhD student in the Higher Education program. She is also a life-long learner, a storyteller, a mother, a nana, a sister, a friend, a teacher, a student and a nurse.

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed inequities throughout society. However, the pandemic also provides the opportunity for change in Canadian post-secondary institutions.

Rewarding knowledge: Shifting constructions of merit at the University of London during the twentieth century

In this SRHE funded study, Emma will examine how certain types of knowledge have been recognized and thus how merit has been determined and rewarded over time. This will be examined by using the University of London (UoL) archives on scholarships from 1903 to 1993.

Listen to Amelia Merrick, AECD PhD student, speaking on CBC Radio about rolling out of the Canada Service Grant

Yasmine Hassen, PI, Jann Houston and Ian Liujia Tian, co-applicants, titled their research: False Freedom: biocarding, bio-surveillance and pedagogies for community care in the world of Covid-19.
They will highlight the potential impacts of biocarding and explore the ways immunity passports for Covid-19, as a solution to enable people to move about their communities, could disproportionately affect certain members of our society including queer, trans, disabled, Black, Indigenous and Peoples of Colour communities.

In this conversation, Professor Pasi Sahlberg, Professor Carol Campbell and Andrea Stringer discuss various global approaches to professional learning and how these can empower educators.

Dr. Grace Karram Stephenson and Jacqueline Beaulieu, PhD Candidate show why post-secondary student services are 'essential services'

Dr. Valerie Damasco and team will use the Toronto COVID-19 Action Initiative grant to help universities understand and respond to the mental wellness needs of students and communities.

The International Symposium on Transformative Leadership and Decolonial Praxis is an educational leadership meeting for practitioners, community members, faculty, both local and international and graduate students to network and share their research. We invite scholars, practitioners, community members, faculty and graduate students to share their research and insights in educational leadership.
Please note the deadline for submission is April 04th, 2020.
Learn more and submit a presentation: https://tinyurl.com/vfkd7rd

Profs Marcelo Vieta, AECD/OISE and Fiona Duguid, Cape Breton University, explain how co-operatives can and should be key to Canada's economic rebuilding and rethinking - now and following the COVID-19 pandemic.