Cross-Canada researchED
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Cross-Canada researchED on the 4th November 2023 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
A symposium in three locations: Halifax, Vancouver and online!
Purchase TicketsresearchED returns to Canada with a truly unique nation-wide Symposium on “Closing the Learning Gap: Reading, Writing and Learning” to be staged live in two cities, Halifax, NS, and Vancouver, BC, and accessible online to registrants across Canada and far beyond.
Our founder Tom Bennett OBE will welcome everyone and the joint program will feature two keynote speakers: Highly-acclaimed American writer Natalie Wexler, author of the international bestseller The Knowledge Gap (2019), and Dr. Kathryn Garforth, Ph.D., Founder of Garforth Education and The Right to Read Initiative, Vancouver, BC.
Join us live, in-person in the Maritimes and in British Columbia or online if you live outside those two regions.
Confirmed speakers:
Tom Bennett, OBE, Senior Advisor, Student Behaviour, UK Government, and author of Running the Room: A Teachers’ Guide to Student Behaviour (2020)
Natalie Wexler, author, The Knowledge Gap (2019), co-author, The Writing Revolution (2017), and columnist, Mind the Gap Series, Forbes Magazine, Washington, DC.
Kathryn Garforth, Ph.D., Founder of Garforth Education, and The Right to Read Initiative, based in Richmond, Greater Vancouver, BC.
Andrew C. Watson, M.Ed., founder of Translate the Brain, author of The Goldilocks Map: A Classroom Teacher’s Quest to Evaluate ‘Brain-Based’ Teaching Advice (2021), and curator, Learning & the Brain Blog, New Canaan, CT
Wendy Mackey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Leadership, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
Jim Christopher, Ed.D., Education Consultant, former Head of School, Kenneth Gordon Maplewood School, North Vancouver, and Executive Director, Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS), 1999-2008.
Paul W. Bennett, Director of Schoolhouse Institute, Adjunct Professor of Education, Saint Mary’s University, and author, The State of the System: A Reality Check on Canada’s Schools (2020)
Nathaniel (Nate) Hansford, education researcher and catalyst, Pedagogy Non Grata, and classroom teacher, Kawartha Lakes District, Ontario.
David Hunt, Education Director, Cardus Foundation, author of Naturally Diverse: The Landscape of Independent Schools in Ontario (Cardus 2022), Vancouver, BC.
Kim Lockhart, M.Ed., Student Literacy Support FSL Teacher, Limestone District School Board, and Director, International Dyslexia Association (Ontario), Kingston, Ontario.
Kate Lyon and Erin Trask, Kindergarten teachers, members of Science of Reading BC Facebook Group, Prince Rupert, BC.
Andrew Francis, Principal, New Glasgow Academy, Chignecto-Central Regional Centre for Education, New Glasgow, NS
Heather Cumming, Ed.D., Inclusive Education (Glasgow, 2021) and Resource Teacher, Halifax Regional Centre for Education, Halifax, NS
Jules Pryma, Teacher, Abbotsford School District, Langley, BC
Sarah Arnold, founder, Halifax Learning, pioneer of the Spell Read Program, recommended by the Ontario Right to Read Inquiry for its effectiveness
Colin Welch. High school English teacher, creator and host “Wheat from the Chaff” Blog, @grapemanca, British Columbia
Andy Ho, Graduate Student, Chat GPT researcher, International Master of Teaching English program (IMTE), Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS
Tickets
$50.00 Can (Live in Person)
$25.00 Can (online, outside of British Columbia the Maritimes)
Date and time
Sat, 4 November 2023
09:00 am – 1:00 pm PT (Vancouver) and 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm AT (Halifax)
Locations
HALIFAX
Saint Mary’s University
Burke Building and Atrium Learning Centre
930 Robie Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3E3
VANCOUVER
Kenneth Gordon Maplewood School
420 Seymour River Place, North Vancouver, BC V7H 1S8