Completed Projects – McDowell Foundation

A Participatory Action Research Project: Improving Teaching Practices Through Culturally Responsive Teaching

A Participatory Action Research Project: Improving Teaching Practices Through Culturally Responsive Teaching To practice culturally responsive teaching (Gay 2010, 2018) in their own classrooms, educators need the opportunity to learn from and with other educators. Using participatory action research methodology (McIntyre, 2008), the study gathered six Saskatchewan elementary educators (researcher Read more…

By Nicole Tainsh, 1 monthNovember 1, 2024 ago

Smooth Transitions: Integrating a High School and Teacher Education Program

Smooth Transitions: Integrating a High School and Teacher Education Program The Faculty of Education, University of Regina and Regina public schools have partnered for five semesters to deliver an integrated university course, Education Core Studies (ECS) 100 at the Campus Regina Public High School. This course is a unique program Read more…

By Nicole Tainsh, 10 monthsFebruary 9, 2024 ago

Effectively Supporting the Professional Development and Growth of Teachers

Effectively Supporting the Professional Development and Growth of Teachers In our role as learning coaches, we have the foundational belief that teachers are professionals who will engage in reflection in order to examine practice and to make instructional decisions and changes to benefit the students they are teaching. “Much of Read more…

By Nicole Tainsh, 10 monthsFebruary 9, 2024 ago

Time, Pace, Place: Using Flexible Design and Delivery to Support Learners

Time, Pace, Place: Using Flexible Design and Delivery to Support Learners Reseachers: Frazer Donahue, Cheryl Dunits, Jean Fauchon, Shalen Fox, Carlo Hansen and Ramona Stiller Additional Teacher Participants: Janet Benoit, Anne Crozier, Shelly Fransoo, Tracie Harty, Nate Jurgens, Roxanne StynskyDecember 2017 In August 2015, teachers at John Paul II Collegiate were directed Read more…

By Nicole Tainsh, 10 monthsFebruary 6, 2024 ago

The Wuchusk or Muskrat Project

The Wuchusk or Muskrat Project Researchers: Renée Carrière and Dr. Tim JardineOctober 2016 The objectives of this project have been established to include but are not limited to the following: To advance the bridging of Indigenous and Western science knowledge. To promote the modelling of land-/place-based teaching pedagogy and practices with science Read more…

By Nicole Tainsh, 10 monthsFebruary 6, 2024 ago

Promising Practices for Meaningful Family Engagement

Promising Practices for Meaningful Family Engagement Researchers: Carly Robson Gilchrist, Pamela Sawatzky and Amber ThompsonOctober 2020 As three researchers, each from distinct rural communities, we will seek to establish and communicate a host of possible practices that are central to engaging families to support student learning. Our project proposal asks, Read more…

By Nicole Tainsh, 10 monthsFebruary 6, 2024 ago

Teachers Leading Teachers: The Saskatchewan Professional Development Unit’s Facilitator Community

Teachers Leading Teachers: The Saskatchewan Professional Development Unit’s Facilitator Community Researcher: Dr. Pamela Osmond-Johnson (University of Regina)October 2018 Within this context, the purpose of this study was twofold. Firstly, the project aimed to explore the value-added component of communities of practice within the teaching profession by examining the SPDU’s Facilitator Read more…

By Nicole Tainsh, 10 monthsFebruary 6, 2024 ago

Collaborative Ecological Consultation: Psychologist, Classroom Teacher, and Embedded Interventions

Collaborative Ecological Consultation: Psychologist, Classroom Teacher, and Embedded Interventions Researchers: Tammy FergusonSeptember 2020 The focus of this research was on ecological collaboration at the intervention stage of psychological consultation in schools. In this action research, teachers and psychologists worked in partnership to select and then to embed appropriate interventions within a Read more…

By Nicole Tainsh, 10 monthsFebruary 5, 2024 ago

Creating Opportunities for Using Family Funds of Knowledge to Support Literacy Skills

Creating Opportunities for Using Family Funds of Knowledge to Support Literacy Skills Researchers: Callie Lewry and Sharla Currie December 2016 In our community school we are working on improving oral language and literacy skills.We know the research says that parent engagement is a primary factor in student success; thus, we wanted to Read more…

By Nicole Tainsh, 10 monthsFebruary 5, 2024 ago

Their Voices: What High School Students are Saying About School-Related Anxiety

Their Voices: What High School Students are Saying about School Related Anxiety Researchers: Dr. Jenn de Lugt and Jenn Chan2017 The purpose of the study is to further our understanding of anxiety as experienced by high school students, and how these anxieties can be mitigated.Through 10 weekly confidential journal entries, and Read more…

By Nicole Tainsh, 10 monthsFebruary 5, 2024 ago