The Teaching and Learning Here and Now: Innovations and Radical Re-Imaginings in Education virtual conference is happening again! Save the Dates May 27 – 29, 2022

This is a FREE virtual conference for Faculty of Education undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, K-12 teachers and education practitioners.

Featuring Keynote Panelists Lance Dixon, the Race Equity Education Consultant at Calgary Catholic School District, and Beau Dixon, Award-winning actor, musician, playwright, music direct and sound designer, who has been listed among Toronto’s Top Ten theatre actors by NOW magazine and Toronto Star! Alicia Reschny, a teacher at Jack MacKenzie Elementary School, will facilitate the panel discussion.

Submit proposals to Teach.Learn2022@uregina.ca by April 8, 2022 EXTENDED TO April 18, 2022 (Click to download the Call for Proposals pdf)

Event Registration Deadline – May 6, 2022

Register at https://events.eply.com/TeachingandLearningHereandNowVirtualConference3361823

Keynote panel
Lance Dixon (Race Equity Education Consultant at Calgary Catholic School District) Panelist: Fostering equity and inclusion in our learning communities. The passion that guides Lance’s work is fostering equity and inclusion in our learning communities. Lance takes a constructive approach to equity education by fostering deeper empathy through racial and cultural sensitivity training. The process and practices are guided by aligning critical pedagogy, adaptive leadership, and systems thinking to the foundational principles of Catholic Social Teaching.
Beau Dixon (Actor, musician, playwright, music director, sound designer) Panelist: Carving the legacy of his ancestors through performance while actively advocating for racial inclusion Beau is an award-winning actor, musician, playwright, music director and sound designer and has been listed among Toronto’s Top Ten theatre actors, multiple years in a row in NOW magazine and Toronto Star.
Alicia Reschny (Teacher at Jack Mackenzie Elementary School) Facilitator

Stories for the Heart Performers
Patrick Lewis Storyteller, teacher, researcher,  professor in early childhood Education, University of Regina Patrick Lewis studies and researches story, narrative identity, storytelling as teaching, and play based learning. He taught as a primary teacher for 20 years before joining the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina in 2004 where he is Professor of Early Childhood Education and Associate Dean. He has authored articles, book chapters, conference presentations, and books. His most recent work, Trauma Informed Teaching through Play Art Narrative is published by Brill/Sense and is co-authored with his spouse Karen Wallace.
Kedrick James Poet, teacher and scholar, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia Kedrick’s poetry utilizes procedural techniques to produce poems that create a whirlwind of images and tones. He is also an electronic musician whose current project, Collaborative Voltage, utilizes distributed “control voltage” signals to create multiplayer sonic universes of synthesized sound. At UBC, he directs the Digital Literacy Centre, a lab of innovative software development, where they have produced a mobile app called PhoneMe for place-based spoken word poetry (freely available on Google Play and the App Store) and Singling, a text data modification software. For more info about related projects, please visit dlsn.lled.educ.ubc.ca.
Kimberly Dark Writer, professor, and raconteur Kimberly is a writer professor and raconteur working to reveal the hidden architecture of everyday life one clever essay poem and story at a time. She’s performed poetry and stories at hundreds of venues worldwide during the past 20 years. She divides her time between Hawaii California and various international and domestic airport departure lounges