
Category: Seminars, Webinars, Workshops, and Symposiums


Teaching and Learning Here and Now: Innovations and Radical Re-Imaginings in Education 2022
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
Stories for the Heart Performers |
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![]() 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. |
![]() 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. |
![]() 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 |

2022 Whisperings of the Land presentation

Métis Identity Panel Webinar
SAVE THE DATE! March 9, 2022
You are invited to a free online webinar: Métis Identity Panel: Wena ka tapaymish ekwa kakway ka dipayhtamun? (Who Claims You and What Do You Claim?).
When: Mar 9, 2022 06:00 PM Saskatchewan
via Zoom
Panel includes:
Rita Bouvier
Russell Fayant
Dr. Brenda Macdougall
Dr. Darryl Leroux
with Dr. Melanie Griffith Brice as moderator.
A Q&A will follow.
Register in advance at:
https://uregina-ca.zoom.us/webinar/register/tJwqduirrD4rE9PetKXB72CWoMkRqmcpoHZS/success?user_id=1_lrv0MfSX6UkQqUgNndEQ&timezone_id=America%2FRegina

CERCD Lunch and Learn Series: Telling Research Stories
Mark your calendar for the Lunch and Learn Sessions: January 26 and February 2, 2022
The Centre for Education Research, Collaboration & Development is hosting two lunch & learn events on telling research stories, open to University of Regina researchers. Register at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cercd-lunch-and-learn-telling-your-research-story-tickets-250369952267

Expressive Therapy and Wellness Series for undergrad education students
Undergraduate Education students: Have the stressors and safety concerns of the pandemic taken a toll? Have you experienced loss, illness, or a difficult personal circumstance? Are you interested in learning valuable coping skills and tools to help lower anxiety?
The Faculty of Education is offering a 10-part Expressive Therapy and Student Wellness Workshop Series starting in January 2022. (Free for Undergraduate Education Students!)
Led by Karen Wallace, a well-respected Art and Play Therapist and Trauma Counsellor, these interactive sessions are designed to introduce students to a host of coping skills to help lower stress and anxiety. Creating a safe space for students in education to lean into their creativity and self-awareness, students will also learn how to incorporate trauma-informed wellness exercises into their own teaching.
Check your email for more information and for links to download the workbook and for the Zoom sessions. No preregistration is required. Just visit Karen’s Zoom room at the time sessions are offered.

Funding announcement | Dr. Sara Schroeter
Congratulations to #UREdu Dr. Sara Schroeter (PI) and co-investigators: Dr. Arjun Tremblay, Dr. Léonie Mvumbi-Mambu, and Dr. Jérôme Melançon on receiving a $25,000 SSHRC/CRSH Connections Grant to host the upcoming Center for Franco-Canadian West Studies (CEFCO) conference “Privilèges et marginalisations dans la francophonie: Réflexions et action”.
Conference details at https://lacite.uregina.ca/fr/crfm/colloques/colloque-du-centre-d-etudes-franco-canadiennes-de-l-ouest-cefco

Educational Milpas: Socio-Natural Frameworks for Well-Being
The Faculty of Education enjoyed a Lunch and Learn presentation organized by the Dean’s office entitled, “Educational Milpas (Milpas Educativas): Socio-natural Frameworks for Well-Being” (“Milpa” means cornfield) with Dr. Stefano Claudio Sartorello, Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City). The presentation was recorded Thursday, January 21, 2021.

Institutional racism and the implications for faculties of education
On September 30, (#OrangeShirtDay) Dr. Jerome Cranston (#UREdu Dean and Professor) was keynote lecturer for the University of Manitoba’s Distinguished Lecturer Virtual Series. Cranston addressed how amid the current period of racial reckoning, those responsible for teacher preparation, preservice and in-service education, need to confront and (re)consider how higher education has reified systemic racism.
