Veronica Stewart Teachers play a major role in shaping school culture and through social and emotional competencies can empower each other and their students. This project seeks to measure the value of developing adult Social Emotional Learning (SEL) skills with major benefits anticipated for students who will see social skills Read more
Researcher: Seleste EftodaNovember 2023 | Winner of the 2023-24 McDowell Foundation Research Award There is an urgent need to address the teacher wellbeing crisis that is gripping many teachers within the province, across the country and around the globe. Teacher well-being is an urgent concern as the wellbeing of the Read more
Wendy James My first McDowell project was Beyond the Mouse and Modem (Henderson, James, & Cannon, 2003), a survey of over 2,000 Saskatchewan teachers about their knowledge and use of technology in the classroom. We did an overall summary for the province that revealed teachers lacked the skill and knowledge Read more
Well-being Special Directed Call McDowell Board of Directors Approves Funding for Special Directed Call addressing Well-Being. The McDowell Foundation invited PreK-12 teachers and other educators to submit an application to a special directed call for research that focuses on student and/or teacher well-being in the [post] COVID-19 public education system Read more
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Ramona Stiller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=169ICMU7a6I Ramona Stiller shares her research story as we continue to celebrate our 30th anniversary through her video.
McDowell Foundation- a springboard to a wonderful career Sharlene McGowan, PhD As I reflect upon its thirtieth anniversary, I think about how the McDowell Foundation has had such a profound influence on my career in education. I embarked upon a solo project in the spring of 2000 to investigate how Read more
Renée Carrière My involvement with the McDowell Foundation started in 2014-15 with my local research titled the Muskrat/Wuchusk Project. With my students from Charlebois Community School in Cumberland House, we explored together questions they raised: Why is the water so brown? Where have all the muskrats gone? We did a Read more
Nadeeka Obada Lekamlage My research project addresses possibilities and advantages of incorporating Indigenous knowledge into high school science to teach in a Northern Saskatchewan high school. Indigenous knowledge framework is a noble instrument to inspire students liking science and promote choosing job categories in the essential job and demanding science-related Read more
Margaret Symon-Lungal I am very grateful and very appreciative of the funds and the personal connection to ensure that my booklet was published and recognized as valuable and authentically representative of my research findings. I was, and still am, very passionate about working with refugees and immigrants, and after I Read more