Inquiry & Innovation Summer Institute

JULY 5-6, 2018 UBC CAMPUS

Please join us for a two-day intensive working session for teachers, principals, Aboriginal cultural workers, district leaders and others interested in making inquiry-informed and innovative practices a way of life in your school and district settings.

Instructors: Dr. Linda Kaser and Dr. Judy Halbert

Please see the poster and share with your colleagues!  

July 5-6, 2018 Inquiry & Innovation poster.pdf

For more information go to http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/inquiry-and-innovation-2018/

Two UBC MOOCs (free online courses)

Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education
Online MOOC

Next Offering October 17, 2017 | pdce.educ.ubc.ca/reconciliation

Engage with Indigenous knowledge keepers, educational leaders, and resources to enhance your understanding and knowledge of practices that advance reconciliation in the places where you live, learn, and work.

This course will help you envision how Indigenous histories, perspectives, worldviews, and approaches to learning can be made part of the work we do in classrooms, organizations, communities, and our everyday experiences in ways that are thoughtful and respectful. In this course, reconciliation emphasizes changing institutional structures, practices, and policies, as well as personal and professional ideologies to create environments that are committed to strengthening our relationships with Indigenous peoples.

For educators, this means responding to educational reforms that prioritize improved educational outcomes for Indigenous learners. In addition, educators must support all learners to develop their knowledge and understanding of Indigenous people¹s worldviews and cultures as a basis for creating equitable and inclusive learning spaces. To support these goals, teachers, administrators, young people, school staff, and researchers will learn from Indigenous Elders, educational leaders, and culturally relevant learning resources as part of their experiences in this MOOC.

For others who want to build their own competence and the capacity of those around them to engage in relationships with Indigenous peoples based on intercultural understanding, empathy, and respect, this course will help get you started in this process.

Learning Objectives:

·     Explore personal and professional histories and assumptions in relationship to Indigenous peoples histories and worldviews.

·     Deepen understanding and knowledge of colonial histories and current realities of Indigenous people.

·     Engage with Indigenous worldviews and perspectives that contextualize and support your understanding of the theories and practices of Indigenous education.

·     Develop strategies that contribute to the enhancement of Indigenous-settler relations in schools, organizations, and communities.

·     Explore Indigenous worldviews and learning approaches for their application to the classroom or community learning setting.

·     Engage in personal and professional discussions in an online environment with others committed to understanding and advancing reconciliation.

 

Bringing Mental Health to Schools
Online MOOC

Launches October 31, 2017 | pdce.educ.ubc.ca/mentalhealth

Mental health literacy is the foundation for mental health promotion, prevention and care and can be successfully implemented through classroom based curriculum interventions that have been scientifically shown to improve mental health related outcomes for students and also for their teachers. A Canadian-developed, nationally and internationally-researched resource, the Guide ­ previously delivered only through face-to-face training ­ is now available online through this UBC-supported program.

In this course, educators will learn how to apply this classroom-ready, web-based, modular mental health curriculum resource (the Guide) as well as upgrade their own mental health literacy. Educators can then use this curriculum resource in their schools to successfully address mental health related curriculum outcomes designed to be delivered by usual classroom teachers to students in grades 8 ­-10.

Learning Objectives:

·     How to apply a variety of first-voice and knowledge based classroom activities that have been shown to significantly, substantially and sustainably decrease mental health related stigma.

·     How to apply a variety of video and knowledge based classroom activities that have been shown to significantly, substantially and sustainably increase knowledge related to mental disorders and treatments

·     How to apply a variety of knowledge based classroom activities, personal exercises and other evidence based interventions that have been shown to significantly and substantially improve: health and mental health self-care; stress understanding and management; mental health help-seeking capacity.

·     Better understanding of all aspects of mental health literacy that can be applied not only in the classroom but to all aspects of an educator¹s own circumstances: understanding how to obtain and maintain good mental health; understanding mental disorders and their treatments; decreasing stigma; increasing help-seeking efficacy.

Visit our website for more detailed information, and program contactspdce.educ.ubc.ca/MOOC

UBC Inquiry and Innovation Summer Institute - Reg by June 12!

There is still a bit of time (although not much!) to register for the UBC Inquiry and Innovation Summer Institute on July 7 & 8. A two-day intensive working session for teachers, principals, Aboriginal cultural workers, district leaders and others interested in making inquiry-informed and innovative practices a way of life in your school and district settings.

This is a great opportunity to bring a team of educators for some in-depth summer learning.

The registration deadline has been extended to June 12.

Please share the flyer with your colleagues.

For more details and to register visit: www.pdce.educ.ubc.ca/inquiry&innovation

Pre-Symposium Seminar - May 11th

We are very pleased to announce the NOII Pre-Symposium Seminar with Dr. Helen Timperley and Amelia Peterson.  

This seminar is designed for educators:

• determined to strengthen professional learning in schools and districts
• curious about what other jurisdictions are doing to help all learners thrive
• interested in how professional inquiry is helping to change the life experiences of learners

When: Thursday, May 11, 2017

             10am - 2:45pm

Where: Westin Wall Centre

              3099 Corvette Way

  Richmond BC

Cost: $150 (including GST) – Enrollment is limited

           Registration is online by credit card:

           westvancouverschools.ca/noii

Dr. Helen Timperley, University of Auckland, New Zealand, is widely recognized for her work in professional learning. She has published widely, including her most recent book Realizing the Power of Professional Learning (2014).

Amelia Peterson is completing doctoral studies through Harvard University’s PhD in Education. She is currently studying the development processes of innovative education policy agendas, and working on Thrive: Why 21^st Century Skills Are Not Enough (with Valerie Hannon, forthcoming June 2017).

Join us for an engaging session with two international scholars! Please share the flyer with your colleagues. Not registered for the NOII Symposium on May 12 & 13th yet? Registration is almost sold out: www.noii.ca/symposium.

Assessment for Learning Drive-In

Interested in assessment for learning and strategies for making the new BC Core Competencies visible for students?

The Centre for Innovation Educational Leadership at Vancouver Island University invites you to the Assessment for Learning Drive-In on April 20^th from 4pm – 6pm at VIU Cowichan Campus in Duncan. For more details and to RSVP, see their flyer.

Free UBC Course - Starting January 24th

Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education
January 24 -­ March 7 | Free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MOOC

Engage with Indigenous knowledge keepers, educational leaders, and resources to enhance your understanding and knowledge of practices that advance reconciliation in the places where you live, learn, and work.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will help you envision how Indigenous histories, perspectives, worldviews, and approaches to learning can be made part of the work we do in classrooms, organizations, communities, and our everyday experiences in ways that are thoughtful and respectful. In this course, reconciliation emphasizes changing institutional structures, practices, and policies, as well as personal and professional ideologies to create environments that are committed to strengthening our relationships with Indigenous peoples.

For educators, this means responding to educational reforms that prioritize improved educational outcomes for Indigenous learners. In addition, educators must support all learners to develop their knowledge and understanding of Indigenous people¹s worldviews and cultures as a basis for creating equitable and inclusive learning spaces. To support these goals, teachers, administrators, young people, school staff, and researchers will learn from Indigenous Elders, educational leaders, and culturally relevant learning resources as part of their experiences in this MOOC.

For others who want to build their own competence and the capacity of those around them to engage in relationships with Indigenous peoples based on intercultural understanding, empathy, and respect, this course will help get you started in this process.

COURSE DETAILS

This online course is delivered using the edX platform, learn about how to register here.

·       DATES:   January 24 ­ March 7, 2017

·       LOCATION:  Online (asynchronous)

·       REGISTRATION:  Register by January 23

LEARN MORE

Visit the website for more detailed information, and program contacts:
pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MOOC

S’TENISTOLW Conference - Proposals due Jan. 31, 2017

S’TENISTOLW Indigenous Adult Education Conference

August 23-25, 2017 

 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Hosted by EyēɁ Sqâ’lewen: The Centre for Indigenous Education & Community Connections

Camosun College | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Traditional Territories of the Lkwungen and W’SANEC Peoples

The 2017 S’TENISTOLW Conference is a gathering for instructors and educators in Indigenous programs as well as leaders and allies in the field of Indigenous adult education. The goal is to build relationship and networks of reciprocity – to share, learn and exchange with each other. 

• Cultural Pre-Conference and Welcome Dinner in collaboration with the Songhees Nation
• Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Gregory Cajete (Tewa educator and author, Look to the Mountain),  Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Māori educator and author, Decolonizing Methodologies) and Graham Hingangaroa Smith (Māori educator and Indigenous education advocate)
• Workshops and presentations from educators, scholars and knowledge keepers
• Sessions with Elders, wellness providers and artists

We invite all Indigenous and allied educators, scholars, administrators and other leaders in the field from Turtle Island and beyond to join us and submit workshop and panel proposals along the following themes:

Indigenous Pedagogies

·          Land and Community-Based Experiential Learning

·          Supporting Learner Engagement

Relationality/Living Our Collective Values

·          Practicing Indigenization

·          Strengthening Alliances

Deadline for Proposal Submissions: January 31^st, 2017

To submit proposals, register and for further information on our conference themes and structure please visit our Website:

http://camosun.ca/stenistolw/

Find Us on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/events/112674599205881/

Indigenous Education Professional Learning at UBC

The UBC Faculty of Education has announced three professional learning courses in Indigenous Education that will take place in 2017: 

·         Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education | Online MOOC (poster)

·         Aboriginal Education in Canada | UBC Vancouver (poster)

·         Ecology, Technology, and Indigeneity in the High Amazon | Lamas, Peru (poster)

RECONCILIATION THROUGH INDIGENOUS EDUCATION
January 24 ­ March 7 | MOOC ­ a free Massive Open Online Course

pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MOOC

Engage with Indigenous knowledge keepers, educational leaders, and resources to enhance your understanding and knowledge of practices that advance reconciliation in the places where you live, learn, and work.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

 
This course will help you envision how Indigenous histories, perspectives, worldviews, and approaches to learning can be made part of the work we do in classrooms, organizations, communities, and our everyday experiences in ways that are thoughtful and respectful. In this course, reconciliation emphasizes changing institutional structures, practices, and policies, as well as personal and professional ideologies to create environments that are committed to strengthening our relationships with Indigenous peoples.

For educators, this means responding to educational reforms that prioritize improved educational outcomes for Indigenous learners. In addition, educators must support all learners to develop their knowledge and understanding of Indigenous people¹s worldviews and cultures as a basis for creating equitable and inclusive learning spaces. To support these goals, teachers, administrators, young people, school staff, and researchers will learn from Indigenous Elders, educational leaders, and culturally relevant learning resources as part of their experiences in this MOOC.

For others who want to build their own competence and the capacity of those around them to engage in relationships with Indigenous peoples based on intercultural understanding, empathy, and respect, this course will help get you started in this process.

COURSE DETAILS

This online course is delivered using the edX platform, learn about how to register here.

·       DATES:   January 24 ­ March 7, 2017

·       LOCATION:  Online (asynchronous)

·       REGISTRATION:  Register by January 23 

LEARN MORE

Visit the website for more detailed information, and program contacts:pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MOOC

ABORIGINAL EDUCATION IN CANADA | EDUC 440
January ­ April, 2017 | 8 evening classes + 4 online modules

pdce.educ.ubc.ca/Aboriginal-Ed

The educational landscape in BC is undergoing exciting developments,
and this course responds to new curriculum developments.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

In this course, educators will build their knowledge and deepen their understanding of Aboriginal/Indigenous people¹s worldviews, approaches to learning, and their histories and contemporary realities. Through the frameworks of reconciliation, decolonization, and self-determination, we will explore how Indigenous histories, perspectives, content, worldviews and pedagogies can be respectfully and meaningfully integrated in the curriculum, teaching, and programming of classrooms, schools, and community contexts.

This course responds to new curriculum development in British Columbia and Canada¹s Truth and Reconciliation Commission¹s Calls to Action (2015), whereby educators are prepared to advance Aboriginal history and worldviews in the curriculum of schools.

Delivered through blended learning, the class will meet 8 weeks face-to-face at UBC Vancouver and include four 3-hour online modules.

COURSE DETAILS

Registration is available for credit (3 credits, EDUC 440) or for non-credit participation to meet the needs of working professionals. We anticipate this course will fill quickly, early registration is recommended.

·       DATES:   January 3 ­ April 7, 2017

·       TIMES:  Tuesdays, 4:30-7:30pm

·       LOCATION:  UBC Vancouver + Online modules

·       REGISTRATION:  Register by November 22

LEARN MORE 

Visit the website for more detailed information, and program contacts: pdce.educ.ubc.ca/Aboriginal-Ed

ECOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY, AND INDIGENEITY IN THE HIGH AMAZON
July 4-24, 2017 | Lamas, Peru

pdce.educ.ubc.ca/Peru2017

Join UBC at the Sachamama Center for BioCultural Regeneration in Lamas, Peru.  The Center is a non-profit organization whose mission is to work collaboratively with the local Kichwa-Lamista communities in their bio-cultural regeneration with the goal of nurturing intercultural dialogue.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This six (6) credit Peru Summer Institute: Ecology, Technology & Indigeneity in the High Amazon offers an intensive three-week program of study consisting of two integrated courses: Ecology, Technology, and Indigeneity in the High Amazon, and Narrativity, Indigenous Ecoliteracies and Ecopedagogies in the High Amazon.

Through a combination of seminars at Sachamama and immersion learning in a local Kichwa-Lamista community, students will engage mind, body, heart and spirit as they experience worldviews, knowings, and community practices that value other than global capital and geopolitical systems.  

Students will reciprocate by doing hands-on service work at Sachamama and in the Kichwa-Lamista community as part of their coursework. It is anticipated that the exchanges with the Kichwa-Lamista continue beyond the Peru Summer Institute enacting sustained intercultural solidarity-building toward a more just and sustainable world.

COURSE DETAILS

Registration is available for credit (6 credits), therefore participants would need to be a UBC student or apply for admission in order to register. Go Global at UBC International House supports this program.

·       DATES:   July 4-24, 2017

·       LOCATION:  Lamas, Peru

·       REGISTRATION:  Register by January 19

LEARN MORE

Visit the website for more detailed information, and program contacts:pdce.educ.ubc.ca/Peru2017

Update from Network Leader Meeting

Earlier this month we held a Network Leaders meeting in Vancouver, with over 40 educators from across the province gathered to deepen our conversations about inquiry and planning our Network activities for this school year.

As a Network, we discussed how we might put more formal coaching practices into place this year, with Leaders taking on coaching roles within and across districts. Lynne Tomlinson shared this helpful document outlining an approach to coaching calls that Leaders can use with Network school teams. We think you will find her 5-4-3-2-1 framework provides a very accessible approach to coaching calls. We also had one of our colleagues – Rosie Palmer – from the Whole Education Network (WEN) in the UK share how they have been structuring support for their schools engaging in the Spirals of Inquiry through coaching. Rosie kindly shared her presentation with us, which outlines their approach. She also provided some good insight and tips, including sending out a simple agenda ahead of the call in order to allow everyone to think about the discussion ahead of time. Both of these resources will be helpful as you plan your coaching practices this year.  Rosie noted that one of the most common coaching questions they engage is “what are the learners telling you?”

We also heard from our Network colleagues in Australia – David Sim and Natalie Mansour. They joined us via videoconference to share how their Network activities are shaping up this year. Earlier in their school year, they hosted an inquiry “master class” led by Judy and Linda, supporting educators to get started get started with the Spirals and plan their inquiries. They have several Network events planned throughout the year, including a full day of pro-d around the Spirals of Inquiry as well as videoconferences showing good practice in action. They will also be hosting first Australia Network Symposium in July 2017 – very exciting!! We’ll share more details soon.

A few articles and books were mentioned as reading for professional learning over the coming weeks. Learn more about the Expeditionary Learning Model by reading this article. Expeditionary Learning is built on ten design principles that reflect the educational values and beliefs of Kurt Hahn, founder of Outward Bound. Also, explore Gregory Cajete’s Rekindling the Teachings of the Seventh Fire – a good book club selection for school teams.

Please also remember to save the date for our BC Network Symposium on May 12 – 13, 2016 in Richmond. We anticipate a full house again this year, so ensure you register early. We’ll let you know when registration opens early in 2017.

UBC Transformative Educational Leadership Program - Apply Now!

In October 2015, the UBC Faculty of Education launched the first Transformative Educational Leadership Program (TELP) cohort, bringing together individuals from across BC’s K – 12 system interested in transforming themselves and their communities by exploring and engaging in dialogue and debate about major challenges and opportunities facing school districts.  Led by Drs. Judy Halbert and Linda Kaser, the program was a great success providing participants with relevant and in-depth interaction alongside innovative researchers, practitioners, and world-class scholars, at the beautiful UBC Point Grey campus. Hear what the 2015/16 participants shared about their experience.

We are excited to be launching the second cohort in October 2016, with applications due by September 11th.  The TELP is for highly-motivated individuals who already have a masters degree and want to expand their world-view, gain new experiences and raise their academic credentials to new levels. Spaces will be limited to ensure meaningful interaction.

Learn more about the program at telp.ubc.ca/telp, listen to our recorded information session and share the brochure with colleagues. You can also contact us directly at telp.educ@ubc.ca. 

“I was very grateful to be part of the TELP cohort and to learn with and from such an exceptional group of leaders. We were engaged in rich and meaningful dialogue and had the opportunity to hear from top educational researchers from around the world. I feel I am part of a network of leaders now and that I will apply what we learned into my work at the school and district level.”

         - Birgitte Biorn, Principal, SD 38 Richmond

“Pressing pause in one’s busy professional life and taking the time to read, learn, reflect and apply current educational research to practice is the hallmark of TELP.  Case studies from provincial leaders, and dialogue with international experts, coupled with first rate leadership by Drs. Halbert and Kaser, position this program as an inspiring catalyst to transforming learning not only in one’s own district context, but in making a difference in learning systems across BC.”

         - Terry Taylor, Superintendent of Schools, SD 10 Arrow Lakes

“TELP has given me insight into, and improved understanding of, the transformational goals for public education in BC.  I’ve acquired tools and language that translate seamlessly between the educational and the business divisions of school districts.” 

        - Julia Leiterman, Secretary-Treasurer and CFO, SD 45 West Vancouver