EDST Student Town Hall Meeting
Date and time: Friday January 22, 7:00 – 8:00pm PT
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Description: Calling all EDST students! This town hall meeting is organized by the EDST GAAs and the EDST Student Representatives. Communication and connection are a bit more difficult in a virtual department, so we’re starting off the term with an open town hall meeting to share your experiences, concerns, and feedback. We’re looking forward to introducing ourselves and making sure that you know who we are, how we’re representing you, and where you can reach out to within the department for support.
See you there!
Please RSVP here or contact edst.gaa@ubc.ca with questions.
Book Talk: Dr. Paul Bennett, The State of the System – A Reality Check on Canada’s Schools (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020)
January 28, 2021, at 2:00pm to 3:30pm PST.
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PDF Version: Book Talk – Dr. Paul Bennett
Overview:
Exploring the nature of the Canadian education order in all its dimensions, The State of the System explains how public schools came to be so bureaucratic, confronts the critical issues facing kindergarten to grade 12 public schools in all ten provinces, and addresses the need for systemic reform. Going beyond a diagnosis of the stresses, strains, and ills present in the system, Paul Bennett proposes a bold plan to re-engineer schools on a more human scale as the first step in truly reforming public education. In place of school consolidation and managerialism, one-size-fits-all uniformity, limited school choice, and the “success-for-all” curriculum, Bennett advocates for a new set of priorities: decentralize school governance, deprogram education ministries and school districts, listen to parents and teachers, and revitalize local education democracy.
Congratulations Dr. Cash Ahenakew on your appointment as a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous People’s Wellbeing.
Learn more on the Faculty of Education website:
https://educ.ubc.ca/canada-research-chairs-annoucement/
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Topic: Holiday Home Concert with Sam Rocha
Time: Dec 17, 2020
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Please join us in congratulating Hannah Coderre (MEd EDST 2020) for receiving the Gina Blondin Memorial Ts”kel Award for 2019/2020. The Gina Blondin award is bestowed annually “in memory of Georgina (Gina) Blondin, M.Ed. (Ts”kel Program) 1988, by the Government of the Northwest Territories, friends, and colleagues. The award is offered to a Ts”kel First Nations graduate who has made the greatest contribution toward the well-being of fellow First Nations students at UBC and who exemplifies Gina Blondin’s scholarship and qualities of leadership.” Well done, Hannah!
