June 2024 Newsletter
Check out what’s happening at the Foundation in our June Newsletter available here.
2024-25 Funding Announcement
The McDowell Foundation is pleased to announce the following projects have received funding for the 2024-25 school year: Project #342 – Culturally Relevant Reading Intervention – Danene Kopperud, Dawn Paylor and Mathew Grupp (Special Directed Call – Leonard Foundation) Project #343 – How do we support gender diverse students now? Read more
Culturally Relevant Reading Intervention
Researchers: Danene Kopperud, Dawn Paylor, and Mathew Grupp This research is designed to evaluate how effectively Culturally Relevant Pedagogy improves phonological and phonemic awareness skills for Indigenous students. It aims to explore the effects of CRP-based reading intervention on students’reading proficiency, as well as their involvement, enthusiasm, and overallsuccess in Read more
Building Community: An Appreciative Inquiry Focused Research Study at Greystone Heights School
Researchers: Eric Walker, Melanie Breckon, Russ Munkler, Krista Sego, Cassandra Shangraw, Sara Stone, Jayden Wiebe Greystone Heights School will embark on a research initiative studying the factors contributing to a sense of belonging among students and staff at Greystone Heights School. Led by educators, the project seeks to uncover the factors that Read more
High Impact, High Needs: Trauma Informed Education in Early Years
Researchers: Kelly Lambert and Ryan Lambert The goal of our project is to examine early childhood trauma within our school division (with the possibility of expanding to other regions in the province) to determine if there is a increase in the systemic pattern among the incidence and occurrence of trauma Read more
Linguistic Insecurity of Francophone Teachers in French Immersion Schools: Understanding and Overcoming Obstacles
Researchers: Oumar Sylla and Wybo Ottenbreit-Born The aim of this study is to identify the main obstacles faced by Francophone teachers in English-dominant French immersion schools, with a focus on issues caused by linguistic insecurity. The research will investigate the challenges and assess their impact on teacher performance, confidence, and Read more
Visible and Valued: Exploring the stories of Queer teachers in Saskatchewan
Researchers: Jen Green and David Popoff Visible and Valued: Exploring the Stories of Queer Teachers in Saskatchewan is a study that will provide a written record and history of the experiences of Queer Teachers in the province of Saskatchewan. Frequently, queer teachers have been in situations where they were not visible Read more
Scope and Sequence for Literacy in French Immersion students
Researchers: Gisele Perrault and Mariette Anderson The objective of this study is to determine which scope and sequence is more effective when teaching reading to grade one French Immersion students in Saskatchewan, in communities where French is not the prevalent language that is spoken. This study will compare two scope Read more
Draw me a Fransaskois: Fransaskois students’ representation of cultural identity, an example of a Francophone High school in Saskatchewan.
Researchers: Naomi Fortier-Fréçon, Francis Denis, Jacqueline Castilloux This research project seeks to explore how students attending a Francophone high school in Saskatoon perceive the Fransaskois identity in their personal lives. Due to the ever changing realities of Saskatchewan demographics, the definition of a Fransaskois has changed, and we wish to Read more
How Do We Support Gender Diverse Students Now?
Researchers: j. wallace skelton, Ashlee Sandiford, Hannah Paul, Alex Schmidt. On August 22 2023, then Education Minister Dustin Duncan announced new policies that impacted what school staff are to do if a child under sixteen asks to be called by a different name or pronoun at school, requiring parents be Read more