You may be interested in learning about Wingspan’s innovative educational leadership project and program led by dis/abled and Deaf artists who teach youth in our K-12 schools about inclusion, accessibility and developing dis/ability and Deaf pride and confidence through their art practice.
Global BC news at 6 pm will feature at 6: 55 p.m. an interview with blind artist Jugpreet Bajwa who taught for 8 weeks in Seaquam Secondary School and 4 weeks at Elsie Roy Elementary School what it means to live with a visual impairment but not be held back to achieve one’s dreams. You may have heard of him. He frequently sings Canada’s national anthem for sport events. I am also interviewed as the VPRI cluster lead who developed Wingspan educational leadership as disability arts, and culture project and research cluster over many years.
The Broadcast times will be:
Tuesday today the 30th on the Global News at 6:00 pm at 6:55 pm
Wednesday morning on the morning news
Wednesday noon-hour news
It also will air on the BC1 24 news channel
Other provincial channels across Canada may also pick it up.
If you have an interest as a committed educational leader in such an approach, feel free to be in contact with me:
Prof. Leslie G. Roman, EDST, Wingspan Cluster Lead shows how performing educational accessibility, inclusion and disability pride in our K-12 schools can be learned from artists with disabilities alongside teachers, thus fulfilling the spirit of Canada’s Accessibility Act. In May and June, three Wing provinces of BC, ON, and MB held showcases featuring the work of different dis/abled artists, their students and teachers showing what can be learned from those with lived experiences of disability who taught in sustained 8 weeks school-based and public pedagogical residencies. Federal Minister, the honorable Carla Qualtrough and Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, both delivered speeches at the opening of the BC Wingspan Showcase hosted by the Delta Seaquam Secondary School and its students along with students from the VSB’s Elise Roy Elementary School. For more information about Wingspan, see, https://wingspan.educ.ubc.ca/ and https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/wingspan-showcasing-event-at-seaquam-secondary-school-delta-bc/ and, https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/wingspan-dis-ability-arts-culture-public-pedagogy/
All best wishes,
Leslie
Professor Leslie Gail Roman
Education | Department of Educational Studies/Faculty of Education
Killam Fellow and Affiliate of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver
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