Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Belonging in an Islamic School. Researchers: Kari Krug, Asmaa Olwan, Nosiba Abdalla, Sabreena Haque, Ghufran Lababidi and Kassandra Campbell. 2020. As Saskatchewan classrooms become increasingly diverse, it is essential that teachers become more culturally aware. This project is an investigation into how teacher collaboration can be used to Read more…
Moving Into the 21st Century with Second-Language Learning Researchers: Dana Sanders and Tina AndersonJuly 2015 The goal of the French immersion program is to educate students so they are able to be bilingual learners. French immersion programs aim to be successful in the creation of functionally bilingual students. These students Read more…
Exploring Experiences of Educators of Students with Bi-Polar Diagnoses Researcher: Erin Richards2015As educators we are expected to facilitate learning for a variety of students. Many of these students are diagnosed with needs that must be addressed by educators. In our professional responsibility we will never diagnose a student, however once Read more…
Early Education Reading Intervention for ELL Students Researchers: Diana Jemieff, Barb Ludba, and Corey HolowachukSeptember 2014 This study examines and attempts to develop the best practices in reading intervention for English language learners (ELLs). As teachers, we are encountering more students who enter school having very few English language skills, Read more…
Kirsten Cavanaugh, Saskatoon Public School Division and Dr. Janet Okoko, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan Recently arrived refugee children face many challenges when adapting to their new country and schools along with their parents who may be looking for work, attempting to learn English, and adapting to a different Read more…
Exploring Refugee Children’s Pre- and Post-Migration Educational Experiences Researchers: Dr. Christine Massing, Dr. Daniel Kikulwe, Katerine Nakutnyy and Dr. Needal Ghadi.January 2023 During the ongoing war in Syria, the Canadian government promised to receive 25,000 refugees1 fleeing war and persecution over a period of three months in 2015-2016 (IRCC, 2019). Read more…
Developing Sense of Belonging Researchers: Michael Radford, Amy Campbell and Scott ThompsonMay 2021 We intended to focus on students’ sense of belonging in Dorintosh Central School. The purpose of the proposed research was motivated by the impact holistic learning has on students’ sense of belonging in the learning environment. Furthermore, Read more…
History Underground: The Road to Reconciliation Researcher: Denee RepskiDecember 2020 This idea was born out of profound restlessness – a sense in our classrooms that we as non-Indigenous teachers were attempting to engage a classroom of largely non-Indigenous students in learning around the history of residential schools and a lingering Read more…
High School Teachers Working Towards Reconciliation – Examining the Teaching and Learning of Residential Schools Researchers: Tana Mitchell and Jennifer TupperOctober 2017 Canada has a long and well-documented history of unequal relations with the first peoples of this land. From policies of forced starvation (Daschuk, 2013), to the ongoing murders Read more…
Papal Encyclical Laudato si’ and Critical Pedagogy of Place: Catholic School Teachers Enacting Papal Encyclical Laudato si Researchers: Mel Sysing and Dustin Kasun, Dr. Verna St. Denis. Analysis by Dr. Sheelah McLeanFebruary 2018 This project seeks to understand how the pedagogical practices of Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools teachers in Saskatoon, Canada Read more…