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Federal officials overseeing prime ministerial gravesites in Canada are rethinking what should be done to reflect how the country views its past, specifically in light of historical mistreatment of Indigenous Peoples. Prof. Cecilia Morgan, a social and cultural historian from OISE, said the usual tension that surrounds commemorations can be exacerbated when the focus is on a historical figure who has taken on a larger symbolism in the public's mind, and whose actions or achievements are thrown under a more critical light. Read more.

Get to know OISE's new interim dean: what keeps him motivated, how he became interested in sociolinguistics and why teaching underprivileged students in India became one of the most rewarding times of his life. Watch here.

Polarizing words may be throwing progressives off course - but research might hold lessons for the left on how to have more meaningful conversations. For OISE prof. Megan Boler, her interest lies in the role social media plays in online polarization. For those on the left, pithy statements on social media like "check your privilege" amplify anger, and not always in useful ways, says Boler. To cut through a polarizing online ecosystem, you will need to find a way to unite. Read more.

Suddene Stone, who plans to complete a master's and PhD in clinical psychology at OISE, says moving to multicultural Toronto from his native Jamaica expanded his worldview in unexpected ways. Now the future OISE student hopes to gain practical experience in the field of mental health while in Canada. "People who are seriously mentally ill often go undiagnosed or don't have access to proper care," he says. "I want to help change that." Read more about Stone's path to OISE. Read more.

There are many issues surrounding oversight and quality of home child care in Ontario, including health and safety and provider qualifications, say Prof. Michal Perlman and OISE researcher Petr Varmuza - who add that roughly 80% of home child care arrangements are unlicensed. In a new article, Perlman and Varmuza create a case for modernizing the province's home child care licensing and supports and give a model for higher quality home care. Read more.

Professor Normand Labrie reflects on his journey to becoming interim dean at OISE - from studying the educational trajectories of Turkish-speaking children in Germany as an undergrad to lending his skills to European Commission, the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, UNESCO and more. Meet Dean Normand Larbie. Read more.

National Day of Truth and Reconciliation: For generations, the subject of residential schools was absent from textbooks altogether. Although Ontario students are now introduced to it in textbooks, there is still much to be done, says OISE professors Jennifer Brant and Eve Tuck. They read through the pages of a Grade 8 history textbook and highlight changes that still must be made in the way Ontario students are taught about residential schools. Read more.

'Actively working to understand my own complicity:' On the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we asked OISE community members how they are honouring this day. From virtual circles to learning from elders and supporting Indigenous organizations, here are some ways they are spending today. Read more.

'There's no social escape': Queer and transgender people in the Greater Toronto Area have struggled exceptionally in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, new research by OISE alum Dr. Alex Abramovich shows, from experiencing higher rates of homelessness to worsening mental health symptoms. Read more.

Ahead of Canada's first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour residential school survivors, Prof. Jennifer Brant says Canadians must do their own work to reflect on and understand what Truth and Reconciliation means. This involves learning about the country's role in the genocide of Indigenous Peoples and the history of colonialism. In U of T News, Brant discusses how Canadians can mark Sept. 30, where they should turn to learn about the ongoing impact of residential schools, and how, if at all, Canada is moving toward reconciliation. Read more.

Suicide rates are significantly higher in Indigenous communities because of systemic barriers. OISE researchers Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos and Shanna Peltier say Canada must decolonize its approach to suicide prevention and shift the objective from not only reducing deaths to enhancing the quality of life among Indigenous populations. Read more about Ansloos and Peltier's research and how they aim to improve suicide prevention policies and practices. Read more.

A new U of T research project led by OISE alum Notisha Massaquoi and colleague Peter A. Newman is looking to understand the factors that shape COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among racialized sexual and gender minority communities - with an aim to build trust in the healthcare system. The study's results will not only inform ongoing COVID-19 vaccination campaigns but also improve planning for future public health emergencies. Read more.

Henderson (Glenn) Scott, who graduated with three degrees from OISE between 1958 and 1965, and his wife Cairine have generously created a bequest to augment their OISE scholarship, the George Flower Award for Advanced Studies in Education. Learn more about their exceptional passion and commitment to our Institute's mission and its students. Read more.

This past summer, with drums, song and air hugs, the University of Toronto's First Nations House -- founded by OISE alum Kahontakwas Diane Longboat (BEd '76, MEd '78) -- celebrated Indigenous students who either graduated in June or who completed another important milestone in their academic careers. Look back at the highlights, as students and their families cheer for the Class of 2021. Read more.

How can we convince ourselves and others to improve our teaching, will it take a revolution or something more practical, and what happens if we imagine "what would make this easy"? In this podcast, OISE alumna Dr Karen Edge, a Reader in Educational Leadership at University College London, talks about school leadership and school improvement strategies. She is known for her ability to blend theory and evidence-based strategy with practical insights and humour. Watch here.

Learn how one Saskatoon teacher is tackling issues of racism and diversity in their online classroom. Meral Choudhry, who recently began her studies at OISE, wants to teach her young students to have "love for all, hatred for none," and is doing so by making issues like racism, multiculturalism and residential schools accessible to them in a unique curriculum. Read more.

Hear from OISE's own Perry King on CBC Radio as he discusses his new book, Rebound: Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City. In this closely reported exploration of the role of community sports in diverse urban centres, King, a Toronto journalist, offers a compelling roadmap for re-imagining neighbourhoods whose residents are active, healthy, and genuinely connected. Listen here.

#UofTBacktoSchool: Welcome (and welcome back) to OISE. This year will look a lot different - but we will get through it together as a community. In this video, our alumni offer advice on making the most out of your time here! Watch here.

The 2021-2022 school year begins and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education is here to provide a large slate of course offerings for the community. To wade you into this year's course offerings, here is a list of four distinct and interesting courses (one from each of OISE's four main departments) that still have some availability. Read more.

The story behind one of the oldest women's studies programs in Canada begins with the tale of two courses launched 50 years ago. OISE alum Ceta Ramkhalawansingh, then an undergrad in U of T's Faculty of Arts & Science, played an instrumental role in a collective that started "Women in the Twentieth Century," one of the first interdisciplinary history courses at the University. The course and its advocates would help ignite women's studies not just in North America but around the world. Read more.

When Chrystal Smith (MT '19) realized her community at the Boys and Girls Club needed help in math, she created an online school for them. Now she's completing an additional MA in her new favourite subject. As a skilled French teacher, Smith always had an interest in language. She often goes the extra mile to make her classes high-energy and fun-filled. But the 2020 pandemic led her on a different path - to STEM education. Read more in U of T Alumni News.

Research shows that outdoor early learning has significant developmental benefits for children. As early years educators reimagine learning and care post-COVID, governments need to contemplate a Canada-wide system that embraces outdoor learning, writes PhD candidate Christine Alden in The Conversation. Read more.

What should be Ontario's priority as schools reopen next week? Five education experts including OISE prof. Carol Campbell and researcher Beyhan Farhadi share their policy priorities for elementary and secondary schools. Read more.

Notisha Massaquoi, a 2020 OISE PhD graduate, has spent more than 30 years advocating for greater access to primary health care in Black communities across Canada. Now, she is joining the University of Toronto Scarborough's department of health and society as an assistant professor - and will teach a course on health equity and anti-Black racism. She recently spoke to U of T News about her research, teaching philosophy and what she's looking forward to most about being at U of T. Read more.

When Chrystal Smith (MT '19), a skilled French teacher, realized her community at the Boys and Girls Club needed help in math, she quickly completed an additional qualification to start teaching them. With the pandemic forcing students to stay home, Chrystal created an online math school, all while starting a math teaching position at the TDSB - helping her to become the STEM educator she never knew she would be. Read more.

What have politicians learned from Ontario's full-day kindergarten program when proposing their own childcare programs and is FDK a success? Watch OISE's Jane Bertrand, program director for the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation, discuss on TVO's The Agenda. Watch here.

Ontario recently deleted anti-racist language from its math curriculum. But educators say that incorporating anti-racism into math education gives students context about how math has been used to perpetuate racism and how it applies to real-life scenarios that encourage equity. Ultimately, if we want children to see math as a "tool to help us understand the world," says Prof. Beverly Caswell of OISE's Robertson Program for Inquiry-based Teaching in Mathematics and Science, "[teaching] can do that by using math to understand issues of power and privilege." Read more.

OISE researchers found that the oldest child in Syrian refugee families has the most responsibility and the lowest English knowledge compared to peers. These children face many unique barriers, like complex trauma, interrupted education, and racism. Read more to find out what schools can do to support them. Read more.

Jennifer Barbera (MA '09, PhD '13) decided to become a psychologist after working in homeless shelters and community organizations. The experience brought her to OISE for the career she always wanted, and the rewards of helping people find healing and joy continue to inspire her learning. Read more.

Noticing, validating and managing emotions is an important part of family health and wellness. Professors Jennifer Jenkins and Mark Wade explain how Covid-19 stress "gets in the family" and how emotion coaching - a simple 2-step process - can help calm the emotional storm at the moment, and also teach children how to manage their own emotions in the future. Read more.

OISE's Scott Davies is one of 15 experts from the Royal Society of Canada's Children and Schools COVID-19 Working Group. The group has created a policy briefing intended to serve as a pandemic recovery resource for educators, administrators, support staff, school mental health professionals, and decision-makers in the education sector, as well as parents/guardians and the general public. It includes 10 recommendations for pandemic recovery in education. Read more.

Canadians observing the Taliban's swift takeover of Afghanistan say they are skeptical of the group's claims that women's rights will be respected under Islamic law. OISE prof. Shahrzad Mojab, who specializes in threats to women's rights and education, agrees. Afghan women have managed to take advantage of four key funding programs over the last 20 years, "but the best analysis is young Afghan women are outraged by both the corrupt Western-backed government of Afghanistan, as well as fearful of a future under Taliban." Mojab adds, "there's no room for women's rights under Sharia law." Read more.

OISE alumna Karen Brown, a Toronto teacher, is the first Black president elected to a provincial teacher affiliate union in the province - and quite possibly the country. As president of the Elementary Teachers' Federation, Brown says she will "lead with the passion and resolve necessary to ensure ETFO members are protected and supported." Read more.

A recent study has revealed that 80 percent of Black Canadians feel racism has negatively impacted them at work. OISE alum and lawyer Samantha Peters discusses her Black Femme Legal toolkit which provides legal and educational resources and support to Black 2SLGBTQI+ women experiencing discrimination and racism in the workplace. Watch on Breakfast TV Toronto.

Microcredentials don't stack up, warn professors Leesa Wheelahan and Gavin Moodie. In a new paper, the researchers dismantle arguments for higher education's latest 'craze', arguing that micro-degrees are "gig credentials for the gig economy." Read more.

In this digital story, a team of youth researchers working with OISE's department of curriculum, teaching and learning narrate their participatory research project about how a group of Latinx and Indigenous youth in Tkaronto (Toronto) navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch here.

OISE Fellow in Early Childhood Policy Kerry McCuaig examines the fate of Canada's national child-care plan now that an election has been called. She points out the importance of affordable child care in staving off the "she-cession" brought on by the pandemic. Read more.

One of the most significant achievements of a baby's life is the emerging ability to understand and use language to communicate. In OISE prof. and co-author Xi Becky Chen's new paper, the team explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted important aspects of language and literacy development, including multilingualism, language use during COVID-19, achieving literacy and more, with recommendations for parents, teachers, educators and policymakers. Read more.

Even though she could not be in Hiroshima, Japan in person, PhD student Myuri Komaragiri had an immersive, deeply engaging experience as part of a lauded international peace education symposium, PELSTE 2021, of which OISE is an international collaborator. Komaragiri's background is in education and international development - specifically, at the nexus of education and conflict. "So, I've always been looking at issues of forced migration and how conflict impacts education," she says. PELSTE was the perfect place to deepen her knowledge in the field. Read more.

OISE alum Nadia L. Hohn's award-winning picture book Malaika's Costome will be delivered to every Grade 1 student in Canada this fall. An enchanting prose writer, Hohn blends English and Caribbean patois. The national book giveaway will provide 550,000 copies of Hohn's book to kids, an honour the former Grade 1 teacher says she is thrilled to receive. Read more about Hohn's award-winning stories. Read more.

U of T remembers William Davis, Ontario's 'education premier:' "The very ethos of OISE traces to the passion and leadership of Mr. Davis-as education minister, as premier, as friend of the institute," said OISE Dean Normand Labrie. "We hope we continue to make him proud." Read more.

The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, along with the University of Toronto, the Province of Ontario, and Canada, is feeling a deep sense of loss with the passing of Premier William Grenville Davis on Sunday, August 8th, 2021. We send our sincerest condolences to the Davis family. Premier Davis was a great friend to our community. He lent his insight and his heart as a friend to many who have worked and learned under the OISE banner. We will sorely miss his guidance and presence. Read more.

The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education is saddened to hear about the passing of our good friend and champion of education, William Robert Waters. Dr. Waters (BA '60, MBA '72, Hon LLD' 04), a tireless champion of education, made it his life's mission to help students overcome academic and economic barriers to education. The talented academic, visionary entrepreneur and generous philanthropist passed away on July 28, at the age of 88. Read more.

Paula Caplan, an OISE professor and pioneering psychologist who exposed how her profession had pathologized a wide range of female traits and social responsibilities, including motherhood, menstruation and even shopping, died. Her work opened the door to a broader critique of her profession, specifically what she saw as an urge to pathologize everyday human emotions. Dr. Caplan argued doing so could do more harm than good by encouraging healthy people to think they were sick. Read more about her fierce feminist perspective and remarkable life in New York Times. Read more.

Award-winning poet and novelist Dionne Brand's 'At the full and change of the moon' is a novel about Marie Ursule, queen of a secret society of militant slaves in 1824 Trinidad, who is planning a revolt by mass suicide. Featured in CBC for Emancipation Day 2021, the novel features interconnected stories of the African diaspora, defiance, oppression and intergenerational trauma told through the eyes of six generations of Marie Ursule's descendants. Listen here.

The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated that our communities must be self-sustaining rather than reliant on volatile global value chains. Co-operatives bring resiliency self-determination to local economies, says Professor Marcelo Vieta. Read more.

Until We Are Free, edited by Rodney Diverlus, and OISE alumni Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware, explores issues facing the Black community in Canada. The collection of writing and photographs has been featured on CBC's list of 20 books by Black Canadian authors to read in honour of Emancipation Day 2021. Until We Are Free addresses how Canadian Black activism, alliances with Indigenous groups and savvy social media use have served to challenge systemic racism, state violence and question myths of "Canadian politeness and niceness." Listen here.

In On Property, author and OISE professor Rinaldo Walcott examines the legacy of indentured servitude and racial slavery and casts an analytical eye on the complex concept of property. Featured on CBC's list of Black Canadian authors to read in honour of Emancipation Day 2021, the pamphlet book calls for systemic changes and sets forth the argument that owning property should be abolished. Listen here.

Meet two of OISE's 2021 Vanier Scholars, Shanna Peltier and Sandra Osazuwa. These outstanding doctoral students are working to create safer, healthier, more joyful Black, Indigenous and marginalized communities through research and advocacy. In this Q&A, learn more about their achievements and plans for making an impact. Read more.

Although dishonesty is understandably worrisome, scientists like OISE's Dr. Kang Lee emphasize that lying is a necessary part of normal development. In his research on 7- to 12-year-olds, Lee found that lying disturbs the connections between different regions of the brain. However, as kids age, their brains become better at handling cognitive tasks and this disruption decreases. Kids with poor executive function will have a harder time telling a good lie. Read more in the Washington Post.

OISE alum Gary Pieters has been appointed to the Ontario Human Rights Commission for his commitment to community building, youth engagement, diversity, and social inclusion. Pieters brings over two decades of leadership roles in equity initiatives in the education sector. Read more.

As one of six Canadian educators chosen to be a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow with the National Geographic Society and Lindblad Expeditions, OISE alum Sarah Gallah was selected to expedition to the Arctic. But, the coronavirus pandemic postponed that trip. Read more.

Crispin Duenas got his acceptance letter to OISE just as he was walking into the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics. "It was a really fun day that became better, because now I had a little bit of a path for my future to take," says Duenas, an OISE alumni who will compete in his fourth Games. Since graduating, Duenas has been working as a supply teacher and long-term occasional teacher in math and physics, with the Toronto District School Board. It has stayed that way as he continued to compete nationally and internationally in his sport. Read more.

During its annual general meeting on July 15, the Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF/FCE) celebrated the accomplishments Dr. Carol Campbell with their Public Education Advocacy Award. This award recognizes dedicated, long-standing service, as well as major contributions to publicly funded education. Read more.

The late Professor Emeritus John Gilbert's scholarly knowledge of theatre was intimately tied to his life on stage, the many and diverse roles he played and, importantly, the generosity characteristic of actors who uphold the words and worlds of playwrights. To a room of students, his teaching proposed that the imagined world of theatre had everything to do with the real one we were inhabiting. OISE's Dr. Kathleen Gallagher reflects on the life of her remarkable colleague and friend, John. Read more.

As the first Indigenous health lead at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, OISE alum Angela Mashford-Pringle says her goals are simple: "I want to create a safe and welcoming environment for Indigenous students, faculty, Elders and Knowledge Keepers and their guests." Read more.

Professor Alison Prentice will be remembered as a path-breaking feminist historian, a prolific researcher, writer and editor, an outstanding teacher, generous mentor and dear friend to many. Throughout Alison's impressive career, her interests in the history of education were closely linked to her focus on women and gender relations. Thus, she was the founding head of OISE's Centre for Women's Studies in Education. As her student, colleague and friend Elizabeth Smyth wrote: "Always humble, caring and thoughtful, Alison paired a brilliant mind with a compassionate personality. She was a legend. She was a star." Read more.

Many in the community will remember Professor Margrit Eichler, who sadly passed away on July 8, 2021, for her tremendous influence at OISE and beyond. Interim Dean Normand Labrie remembers the frequent interactions they had in the hallways of OISE, in meetings or at OISE Council at a time when her activism, energy, and scholarship were as always, so present. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Margrit was a professor emeritus in OISE's Department of Social Justice Education and over the years served in a number of important roles across the University of Toronto. Read more about Margrit's path-breaking career, her scholarship and remarkable character. Read more.

How can universities use their position to confront challenges posed by the digital revolution? In this episode of the Internationalist, OISE prof. Charles Pascal discusses the digital divide and creating equal access to higher education with digital technology. Listen here.

How can traditional knowledge be harnessed to help Indigenous people heal from the trauma of residential schools? This is one of the key questions being explored by the Land Education Design Project, a collaboration between Indigenous-led organizations and prof. Eve Tuck. Read more.

With concerns that the Tokyo Olympics could become a super-spreader event, why then are the Games taking places? The answer lies in the power that the International Olympic Committee - the self-proclaimed "supreme authority" for world sport - holds over the cities and countries that host the Games, writes OISE prof. Helen Jefferson Lenskyj. Read more.

Canada's term 'residential school' is deeply inadequate. These were not schools; they were prisons and forced labour camps, writes OISE alum Erica Violet Lee, a nêhiyaw poet and scholar. As unmarked graves of Indigenous students are uncovered across Canada, the outcome of this long-awaited reckoning involves "multiple Native nations across the land delving into their own soils, pursuing the stories we've all heard from our elders and knowledge-keepers," and building another world, writes Lee. Read more.

Writing about trauma can make us upset but also help us heal. OISE researcher Elizabeth Bolton Cartsonas explains how writing can guide a chaotic mind in ways that do not involve revisiting trauma. In the Conversation, she shares three evidence-based tips for therapeutic writing. Read more.

Professor Jennifer Brant says one reason for many Canadians' seeming inability to fully understand the horrific legacy of residential schools is the way the subject has traditionally been taught in school - if it has been taught at all. "Residential schools are referred to as a 'process of assimilation,' when, in reality, they intended to 'kill the Indian in the child.' This wasn't just an assimilation project - this was a project of genocide." Read more.

Rather than simply being a topic of a one-off workshop, explored only in an elective course or "something that you do if you want to," it's important for anti-Black racism to be highlighted amid wider conversations and discourse around racism and become "endemic and embedded" into everything educators are learning, says OISE prof. Ann Lopez. "Racism is systemic. Injustices are systemic. So you cannot change something that's systemic and structural with Band-Aids - and that's what we've been doing," she said. Read more.

#OISEGrad21: Shanna Peltier, who graduates with her master's today, has brought a collaborative approach to her research on mental health, wellness and life promotion among Indigenous communities. Learn about Shanna's journey-and her unapologetically Indigenous lens. Read more.

#OISEGrad21: Athena Tassis' work in OISE's Master of Teaching Program didn't just make her an adept educator who can expertly deploy ed tech in her classroom. It's made her a changemaker who is ready for the next chapter of her teaching journey. Read more.

OISE alumna and educational YouTubers Brittany Cohen and Shawn Matts celebrate Pride Month in a new video for children, parents and teachers. It includes a short lesson about Pride and what it means to be part of the LGBTQ+ community, as well as a fun art activity. Watch here.

COVID-19 school closures accelerate education inequities in Ontario, finds new study by Prof. Lance McCready and colleagues. Barriers such as not having access to high-speed internet or computers and devices to follow along at school means that some students have simply stopped learning altogether. And, the loss of access to school-based health care services as well as the social benefits of routine and structure have all impacted students' mental and physical health. Read more.

"Let us pray." As the virtual conference on Black boys in education began with prayer, it ended with takeaway points of action that scholars could take to their communities. The webinar, titled "Black Boys Education: Currency, Practices and Social Interventions," brought together scholars from OISE, the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC), Mico University College, as well as scholars from Kenya. Jamaica's Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Fayval Williams, was also in attendance. OISE Professor Njoki Wane also addressed the attendants. Read more.

"One course is not enough, especially when we consider the instructional time required to establish assurances for avoiding the harm of superficial reconciliation and safeguarding against cultural appropriation." Currently, Ontario teachers complete a 12-session course and are then expected to teach students about Indigenous histories in their own classrooms. This is ineffective, says Professor Jennifer Brant. Read more.

Despite the impressive list of honours and achievements under OISE professor Eve Tuck's belt, the first words she uses to describe being awarded Emily Carr University's 2021 honorary doctorate are "surprised" and "humbled." As a writer, teacher and researcher, her work centres Indigenous social thought and the ways it can be create more fair and just social policy, practice and approaches to decolonization. Read more about Dr. Tuck's scholarship and what this recognition means to her. Read more.

Meet OISE's 2021 Leaders and Legends Awards recipients. This year's winners - all OISE alumni - are making a difference in the social, economic, political and cultural wellbeing of individuals and communities in Canada and worldwide. Read more.

The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education is appalled and devastated to learn of the discovery of human remains from 215 Indigenous children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. We share in the anger and grief felt by our Indigenous faculty, students, staff and alumni, and pledge to lend our care and support to all of our community members as we navigate the trauma and loss from this grim discovery. Please read the full statement. Read more.

"Write something where you don't care how people judge you or how people rate what you're writing about because that's your story. That's your reality." OISE prof. Njoki Wane sits down with Room Magazine to discuss her new memoir, From My Mother's Back. Read more.

OISE's Dr. Ann Lopez joins Stephen Hurley at voicEd Radio to discuss what degree our notions of equity and diversity are "uncritical and laminated." In this conversation, Lopez shares about her early life and what influenced her work as a young student, educator, administrator and now, a scholar in the area of equity, decolonization and antiracist education. Listen here.

PhD candidate Lucy El-Sherif writes about the high cost of advocating for Palestine. Drawing from her research which examines when Muslim Canadians challenge Canada's social order, El-Sherif discusses issues of racial profiling and censorship as she asks the question, when will Canadians stop punishing those who call for justice for Palestine? Read more.

As a world leader in transforming lives through teaching, education research and evidence-based advocacy, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education believes that the most promising pathway to mental-health system reform starts with education - reinventing the way our schools and educators prevent, identify, support and alleviate child, youth and young adult mental health concerns. Powered by philanthropy, we will begin our Mental Health and Well-Being Initiative by recruiting a globally-respected expert in youth mental health and then attracting key partners across the education, health and social service sectors to help jumpstart research and demonstration projects aimed at exploring innovative new practices and approaches. Read more.

Include the excluded and marginalized-this is the guiding principle behind Professor Heather Sykes' innovative research. Learn how Dr. Sykes is bringing together anti-colonial, queer and feminist theories to inquire into sports and physical education. Read more.