2021 LCEEQ Annual Conference Archive

  @HargreavesBC 

Andy Hargreaves is a Research Professor in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College and holds Visiting or Honorary Professorships at the University of Ottawa, Hong Kong University, Swansea University, and the University of Stavanger in Norway. He is Past President of the International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement, Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Professional Capital and Community, recent Adviser in Education to the Premier of Ontario and currently to the First Minister of Scotland, and founder of the ARC Education: a group of nations committed to broadly defined excellence, equity, wellbeing, inclusion, democracy and human rights.

Andy has consulted with the OECD, the World Bank, governments, universities and teacher unions worldwide. Andy’s more than 30 books have attracted multiple Outstanding Writing Awards – including the prestigious 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Education for Professional Capital (with Michael Fullan). He has been honoured with the 2016 Horace Mann Award in the US and the Robert Owen Award in Scotland for services to public education. Andy is ranked by Education Week in the top 20 scholars with most influence on US education policy debate. In 2015, Boston College gave him its Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the Education University of Hong Kong and the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His most recent book, Moving: a memoir of social mobility and education, is published by Solution Tree.

 @FernandoReimers 

Fernando M. Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education and Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of the International Education Policy Masters Program at Harvard University. An expert in the field of Global Education, his research and teaching focus on understanding how to educate children and youth so they can thrive in the 21st century. He is a member of UNESCO’s high-level commission on the Futures of Education. With colleagues at the OECD, the World Bank and the organization Hundred, he is leading an effort to support educational continuity during the COVID-19 Pandemic with applied research.

He has written or edited thirty-five books. At the moment he is leading a large comparative study of how 25 universities around the world have partnered with elementary and secondary schools to sustain educational opportunity during the Pandemic. More information about his work is available here.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier resided in Iqaluit, Nunavut for 15 years and now has returned to her hometown of Kuujjuaq, Quebec.  She was born in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik (northern Quebec), and was raised traditionally in her early years before attending school in southern Canada and in Churchill, Manitoba.  She is the past Chair of Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), the organization that represents internationally the 155,000 Inuit of Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and Chukotka in the Far East of the Federation of Russia.

She remains connected to her life’s work through advocacy work, which included membership as Commissioner on the civil society Commission on Arctic Climate Change led by the Aspen Institute. She has taught the Human Dimension of Climate Change both at Bowdoin College, Maine USA and at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. She remains busy with speaking engagements and a book tour promoting her recently launched book “The Right To Be Cold” which hit major bookstores in March of 2015. Her book was shortlisted for the British Columbia Canadian Non-Fiction Award, The Cohen Shaughnessy for Political writing, the Cobo Emerging Writer Prize and the CBC Canada Reads competition.

Ms. Watt-Cloutier sums up her work by saying: “I do nothing more than remind the world that the Arctic is not a barren land devoid of life but a rich and majestic land that has supported our resilient culture for millennia.  Even though small in number and living far from the corridors of power, it appears that the wisdom of the land strikes a universal chord on a planet where many are searching for sustainability.”

 @HomaTav 

For over three decades, Homa Sabet Tavangar’s work has addressed themes of culture, innovation, leadership, global citizenship and global competence, and deep diversity, equity, belonging and inclusion. She connects timely topics of the moment with the timeless desire to work with purpose and make a difference – whatever one’s circumstances.

Homa’s clients range from Fortune 50 corporations to public, international and independent K-12 schools around the world: from an Ivy League university to Disney Channel and numerous not-for-profit public and multilateral organizations and professional associations. Co-founding the Big Questions Institute and Oneness Lab represents a natural extension of her work, especially during a time of unprecedented global challenges.

Homa is the author of widely-acclaimed Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World (Random House, 2009), Global Kids (Barefoot, 2019);  The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners (Sage/Corwin, 2014), contributor to Mastering Global Literacy, Heidi Hayes-Jacobs, ed. (Solution Tree, Nov. 2013) and the 3-book Take-Action Guide to World-Class Learners (Corwin, 2016) series with Professor Yong Zhao. Growing Up Global was the inspiration behind NBC-Universal’s animated series Nina’s World, starring Rita Moreno, and has been hailed by international education and business leaders and media ranging from Dr. Jane Goodall to the BBC, NPR, NBC, ABC, Washington Post.com, Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times, Boston Globe, PBS, Scholastic, Parents Magazine, Rodale, and many more.

Homa has lived on four continents, has heritage in four world religions, speaks (almost) four languages, and is the mother of three daughters. She and her husband live just outside Philadelphia.

@MichaelFullan1 

Michael Fullan, (OC) is the former Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto. He is co-leader of the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning global initiative.  Recognized as a worldwide authority on educational reform, he advises policymakers, local leaders, and school communities in helping to achieve the moral purpose of all children’s learning. He served as Premier Dalton’s Special Policy Adviser in Ontario from 2003-2013. Fullan received the Order of Canada (OC) in December 2012. He holds five honorary doctorates from universities around the world.

Fullan is a prolific award-winning author whose books have been published in many languages. For Leading in a Culture of Change he received the 2002 Book of the Year Award by Learning Forward—a book that he revised and updated as a Second Edition to appear in January 2020. Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan’s book, Professional Capital received the Grawemeyer Award in 2015.

Fullan’s latest books are: Coherence: Putting the right drivers in action (with Joanne Quinn); Deep Learning*: Engage the World Change the World*; Dive into Deep Learning: Tools for Engagement (with Quinn, McEachen, Gardner, & Drummy), Surreal Change (autobiography), Core Governance (with Davis Campbell), Nuance: Why Some Leaders Succeed and others Fail, and The devil is in the details: System solutions for equity, excellence, and well-being (with Mary Jean Gallagher).

@PirieAdam 

Adam Pirie is currently an Associate Principal at a junior high school in rural Alberta. His passionate interest in global education dates back to his time teaching in London, England. However, he has always been seeking to have students connect and contribute beyond the classroom walls. In his roles as teacher, instructional coach, and now as an administrator, Adam has had the opportunity to develop global competence initiatives at the school and system levels. From collaborating in the development of a high school pathways program focused on global competence to taking a lead role in a multi-system provincial research project, Adam has gained valuable experience around how global competence education can be operationalized.

  @KeyaLamba 

Keya Lamba is an early childhood education specialist who has experience both within and outside the classroom. Over the past seven years, Keya has taught in early childhood classrooms, designed, and facilitated teacher professional development and created play-based curricula for low-resource settings. She began her career as a Kindergarten teacher in California with Teach for America. Keya has a Master in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she was an Early Childhood Education Zaentz Fellow.

  @oneofmanydrews 

Drew Edwards is a social entrepreneur, author, and coach with experience across sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. He has spent his career working in education with children in post-conflict and crisis settings. He has extensive experience in informal and primary education in low-resource settings. His research interests include early childhood literacy, inclusion and belonging, and the intersection of violence and education. He has written for UNESCO, spoken on NPR, and on stage at SXSWedu.

He holds a Master of Education in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies. He was a WISE Fellow on refugee education with the Qatar Foundation and  holds a Certificate in Child Protection from the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.

  @RosemarySadlier 

Rosemary Sadlier, OOnt (Order of Ontario) is a social justice advocate, researcher, writer, consultant, and international speaker on Black History, anti-racism and women’s issues. She is the past President, serving for 22 years as the unpaid leader of the Ontario Black History Society, being the driving force of the secured commemoration of February as Black History Month at all levels of government. She secured August 1st as Emancipation Day municipally in 1995 and provincially in 2008 with a national declaration pending.  She saw to the creation of the National Day for the Hon. Lincoln Alexander. She has given deputations to the UN Rapporteur on Race Relations, the Federal and Provincial Governments and on consultative work with the Royal Ontario Museum, the Ward heritage interpretative group, the Bi-National Study of the Underground Railroad and heritage conferences.

Previously she served on the final selection committee of the national Mathieu Da Costa Challenge for Canadian Heritage and is now on the Canada Post Stamp Advisory Committee. An educator, she has developed and contributed to African Canadian curriculum, national exhibits and she was an appointed member of the College of Early Childhood Educators. She was among the first Canadians designated a Global Defender of Human Rights (CTF & Robert Kennedy Center). An author, Sadlier has written seven books on African Canadian history. Sadlier is dedicated to social justice and using the frame of Black History, seeks to educate and empower others.

 @Ainsleybr 

Ainsley Rose retired after 35 years in education. As the former Director of Education and Curriculum for the Western Quebec School Board in Gatineau, Quebec, he has presented to small and large audiences across Canada, the United States, Bermuda, Hawaii and Lusaka Zambia, as well as, at the International Effective Schools Conference in Rotterdam. Ainsley is a contributing author for several recent publications; The Teacher as Assessment Leader, The Principal as Assessment Leader, The Collaborative Teacher, all with Solution Tree publishing. Ainsley works as a senior professional development associate for the Leadership and Learning Centre, the Marzano Research Laboratory, Solution Tree, and the Wayne Hulley School Improvement Model. He is also the lead trainer for Visible Learning, the work of Dr. John Hattie, from Auckland, New Zealand.

  @KarenMundy4 

Karen Mundy is Professor of International and Comparative Education at the University of Toronto (cross appointed to the Munk School of Global and Public Affairs). She is a leading expert on education in the developing world. As Chief Technical Officer at the Global Partnership for Education, the world’s largest global fund providing more than $500 million per year to 67 developing countries, she led the development and implementation of GPE’s Strategic Plan 2015-2020and the publication of GPE’s first two Results Reports. At the University of Toronto, Dr. Mundy has been a Canada Research Chair (2002-2012) and the Associate Dean of Research and Innovation (2012-2014). She was the President of the Comparative and International Education Society (2014-2015). Her research has covered the global politics of “education for all”; educational policy and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa; and the role of civil society organizations in educational change. Dr. Mundy is presently a member of UNESCO’s Education Futures Commission.

 The conference met my expectations

4.3 / 5

 The Conference will be of value to me in the future

4.4 / 5

 The Conference had enough variety to maintain my interest

4.1 / 5

 The Conference's online format was satisfactory

4.3 / 5

 Andy Hargreaves –  Leading from the Middle - Before, During and  Beyond the Pandemic

4.4

Presentation

 Fernando Reimers – Building an Education Renaissance after COVID-19

4.3

 Sheila Watt-Cloutier – From Local to Global

4.3

N/A

 Michael Fullan – Engage the World to Change the World

4.2

Presentation

 Andy Hargreaves – Helping Those Who Help Nurture and Maintain Their Resilience

4.5

 Homa Tavangar – How to Build Global Competence (and Compassion) Amidst Global Crises

4.4

 Adam Pirie – Educating Secondary Students in an Age of Unprecedented Interconnectedness

3.4

 Sheila Dunwoodie & Allison Saunders – Using Picture Books to Build Young Social Justice Activists - Elem.

4.7

Handout

 Kish Gué, Avi Spector, Tracy Rosen – How Do We Maintain Community During a Pandemic in a World that is Changing Around Us?

3.8

Presentation

 Homa Tavangar - Nurture Belonging, Inclusion and Deeper Learning: Recognize and Overcome the Challenges for Global Commitment and Local Action

4.1

N/A

4.0

 Drew Edwards - Representation Matters: Relearning to See Ourselves and See Others

4.0

 Jessie Curell - Digital Literacy & Storytelling in Canada's North 

4.4

 Ben Loomer - Harvesting Knowledge and Food: School-Community Gardens in Quebec

3.8

N/A

 Karen Mundy - Sustainable Development Goal 4 and the Future of Education

4.0

N/A

 Fernando Reimers - Transforming Schools to Educate Global Citizens

4.4

 Sheila Watt-Cloutier - The Historical Journey

4.4

N/A

 Ainsley Rose - From Brush Fires to Forest Fires: Leading Change for Global Commitment Through Local Action

4.4

 Kelly Fahey - Youth Take-Action! Place-Based Environmental Education - Elem.-Sec.

4.1

 Zmira King - Rediscovering Resilience During COVID and Beyond: How to Find Balance in These Challenging Times

4.5

N/A