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EdCan Network New report on Rural School Dropout

A guide for leading dropout prevention in your small town The Rural Advantage: Rallying Communities Around Our Students Calling all Executive Directors and CEOs: We’re proud to share with you our new case study research report, which calls on community organization leaders to consider a made-in-Canada approach that raises literacy rates, prevents early school leaving…

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Call for Special Issue on Education for Social Transformation: Initiatives and Challenges

Education Sciences is preparing an issue on “Education for Social Transformation: Initiatives and Challenges in the Contexts of Globalization and the Sustainable Development Goals”, and we would like to invite you to consider submitting a research article to this issue. Guest Editor: Richard Maclure, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa (Canada) rmaclure@uottawa.ca https://education.uottawa.ca/en/people/maclure-richard Deadline for…

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Invitation to submit a proposed chapter in the edited book Diverse Leadership Landscapes: Exploring the Terrain.

Drs Catherine McGregor and Shailoo Bedi, University of Victoria, Canada, will be editing a book entitled Diverse Leadership Landscapes: Exploring the Terrain. Our goal is to create a collection of research chapters written by scholars and practitioners who are interested in exploring the diverse terrain of diversity leadership: both those who are themselves members of…

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OISE Jackson Lecture: Spirit Bear: Decolonizing Canada by Lifting Up the Children

Invitation to the 2018 R.W.B. Jackson Lecture Greetings, Join us on June 13th for the R.W.B. Jackson Lecture featuring Dr. Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, in conversation with CBC’s Duncan McCue. Connect and network with alumni, colleagues and friends at OISE’s signature spring lecture and community reception. 2018…

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CMEC Call for proposals

The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, in collaboration with Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), is organizing a national conference in Toronto, Ontario, on October 4-5, 2018. The purpose of the conference is to highlight the use of Canadian data in studies related to PISA and other large-scale assessment projects and to promote the…

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Local Ottawa teacher with global experience appointed Director of International and Social Justice Programs

OTTAWA…. The President of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF) H. Mark Ramsankar is delighted to welcome Dan Martin as the federation’s new Director of International and Social Justice Program. Martin joined the CTF as a Program Officer in September 2017 bringing with him extensive experience in the Project Overseas program as a former participant, team…

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Canada’s Volunteer Awards

Submit a nomination now for Canada’s Volunteer Awards! We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting nominations for Canada’s Volunteer Awards! It is a great opportunity to recognize the important work of volunteers and to acknowledge that our country would not be the same without them. The Department has developed and implemented a…

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