Live Webinar Series
Learning opportunities for Canadian educators
We are thrilled to present the following short live webinars to help instructors reach students more effectively! Each will include a Q&A period to allow you to interact directly with the presenter(s).
Past Events
Wednesday, June 15th, 1:00-2:30 PM ET
Are you looking for new tools for your teaching toolkit? This interactive online workshop is for faculty interested in helping students collaborate effectively and have a positive group experience. In this workshop, we explore ways to:
- create an engaging and inclusive culture in the classroom and online
- enhance team effectiveness through self-reflection and team assessment
- use powerful questions to deepen learning
- develop our own and students’ listening skills
Throughout the workshop, participants will have opportunities to share ideas and success stories. Come prepared to discuss in small group break-out sessions, as well as larger group conversations. Participants will also collaborate with peers from across the country on a variety of hands-on activities, including cocreating a Designed Alliance, building self-awareness using a Skills Wheel, and listening for deeper meaning
About the Panelists
Marina Jaffey
Marina has a passion for teaching and coaching, and has been working with students for 28 years at colleges and universities across British Columbia. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and an Associate Certified Coach (ACC). In addition to extensive facilitation and coaching experience, Marina has worked in marketing and sales management with Unilever and the National Gallery of Canada. She is actively involved in her community and has served on the board of the Canadian Public Relations Society – Vancouver Island chapter. Marina has co-written the book, THINK marketing, which presents current Canadian and international marketing trends and practices in a way that is engaging and interactive. In her leisure time, Marina enjoys outdoor activities including hiking and skiing with her family and dog, Jaxon, on beautiful Vancouver Island.
Anita Ferriss
A core belief in Anita’s life and work is that the foundation of everything we do is grounded in relationship, and that everyone is capable. She leads from the heart, using a strength based, appreciative approach. She is an experienced and inspirational co-active coach, educator, faculty chair, facilitator, and organizational & people development specialist, whose 45-year career spanned working in higher education, not for profit, and government organizations as well as running her own coaching and consulting business. She has a master’s degree in Leadership and Training (Royal Roads University) and is a certified professional co-active coach (CPCC) - Coaches Training Institute, with additional training in organizational, relationship, systems coaching (ORSC) - Centre for Right Relationship - CRR Global. She is passionate about community engagement and has been volunteering for a local community social services agency throughout the pandemic. Recently retired, Anita balances her time between her family, including 6 grandchildren and a dog, her garden, her community, a small coaching/consulting practice and being in nature.
Wednesday, June 22nd, 1:00-2:30 PM ET
This interactive online workshop is for faculty interested in supporting students through team conflict situations. In this session, we explore ways to:
- create a culture of trust and belonging in the classroom and online
- enhance social and emotional intelligence
- apply conflict resolution strategies
Throughout the workshop, participants will have opportunities to share ideas and success stories. Come prepared to discuss in small group break-out sessions, as well as larger group conversations. Participants will also collaborate with peers from across the country on a variety of hands-on activities, including an ice-breaker using Dr. Martin Brokenleg’s Circle of Courage model and an exercise using Judy Ringer’s “We have to talk” conflict framework.
About the Panelists
Marina Jaffey
Marina has a passion for teaching and coaching, and has been working with students for 28 years at colleges and universities across British Columbia. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and an Associate Certified Coach (ACC). In addition to extensive facilitation and coaching experience, Marina has worked in marketing and sales management with Unilever and the National Gallery of Canada. She is actively involved in her community and has served on the board of the Canadian Public Relations Society – Vancouver Island chapter. Marina has co-written the book, THINK marketing, which presents current Canadian and international marketing trends and practices in a way that is engaging and interactive. In her leisure time, Marina enjoys outdoor activities including hiking and skiing with her family and dog, Jaxon, on beautiful Vancouver Island.
Anita Ferriss
A core belief in Anita’s life and work is that the foundation of everything we do is grounded in relationship, and that everyone is capable. She leads from the heart, using a strength based, appreciative approach. She is an experienced and inspirational co-active coach, educator, faculty chair, facilitator, and organizational & people development specialist, whose 45-year career spanned working in higher education, not for profit, and government organizations as well as running her own coaching and consulting business. She has a master’s degree in Leadership and Training (Royal Roads University) and is a certified professional co-active coach (CPCC) - Coaches Training Institute, with additional training in organizational, relationship, systems coaching (ORSC) - Centre for Right Relationship - CRR Global. She is passionate about community engagement and has been volunteering for a local community social services agency throughout the pandemic. Recently retired, Anita balances her time between her family, including 6 grandchildren and a dog, her garden, her community, a small coaching/consulting practice and being in nature.
Wednesday, May 18th, 3:00pm – 3:45pm EST
In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released their Calls to Action to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation. Call to Action #12 was for the development of culturally appropriate early childhood education programs.
Join Crystal Manyfingers and Nancy Espetveidt for a fireside chat on best practices for incorporating Indigenous knowledges into the Early Childhood Education curriculum. We’ll also have an opportunity to talk about how to provide context and understanding on why this work is important.
About the Panelists
Crystal Manyfingers
When Crystal was just a little girl in grade school, she spent much time in the library commons at the University of Lethbridge where her mother, Dr. Helen Manyfingers, was completing her degree in Early Childhood Education. Her favorite section in the University library was the children’s book section where she would read and read about tales of adventures of characters from all over the world.
As a First Nation member of the great Blackfoot Confederacy, Crystal has lived in the City of Calgary (Mohkintsis) for over 25 years. Her love for reading books eventually led to her completing a master’s degree in Education at the University of Calgary. Crystal has written numerous magazine articles and even wrote and published a children’s book of her own called “A’pistotooki kii Ihkitsik Kaawa’pomaahkaa – Creator and the Seven Animals, why are we here?” Crystal was awarded the Faculty of the Year Award for 2020 from Bow Valley College.
Crystal is well known to be a bridge-builder between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, and she is both honoured and humbled to serve on the Board of Directors for the Calgary Public Library as well as the Alberta Library Trustees Association. She presently serves as Learning Design Consultant for Indigenization of curriculum at Bow Valley College.
Nancy Espetveidt
Nancy has been engaged with the Early Childhood Community in the City of Calgary (Mohkinstis) in different capacities since 1998. Currently working on her PhD in language and literacies education with the University of Toronto, and in her role as an ECED faculty member, she is looking for ways to incorporate contextual instruction through relationship-based practice with pre-service ECEs.
Dedicated to the important work of decolonization, Nancy has been working closely with Indigenous partners to reconfigure what learning can and should look like in higher education. Working with future educators, Nancy's goal is that these practices will filter through to the hearts, minds, and environments of the future children in their care. Nancy is honoured to be invited to speak to her journey along with her valued friend and guide, Crystal Manyfingers.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
In this session, Kelly Hogan explores a framework for inclusive teaching and a few tips you can implement right away. She'll also discuss how diversifying the methods used in the classroom leads to more successful students.
About the Speaker
Kelly A. Hogan, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kelly Hogan is the associate dean of instructional innovation for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's College of Arts and Sciences, the University’s quality enhancement plan director, and a teaching professor in the College’s Biology Department. Since 2004, she has been teaching 400-seat classes using interactive teaching methods and technologies. Hogan's approach centers on the philosophy that, with the right practice, everyone is capable of learning. By demonstrating the effectiveness of her methods in large lecture classes, her work has received national attention in publications such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. As the co-author of several biology textbooks (Campbell Biology’s Concepts and Connections and Essential Biology), Hogan has reached hundreds of thousands of students globally. She has also been recognized through nine different campus, state, and national awards for teaching, mentoring, and advising. Recently, she teamed up with her colleague, Dr. Viji Sathy, doing workshops around the country and writing about inclusive pedagogy (inclusifiED.com). Hogan completed her undergraduate degree in biology at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, New Jersey in 1996 and earned her Phd from UNC–Chapel Hill in 2001.
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Lisa Shin and Sam Sommers co-teach introduction to psychology and a course on the science of coping with COVID-19 at Tufts University. In this session they will review research illustrating the importance of creating an inclusive class experience for student learning outcomes, and will detail specific strategies they use in their teaching and textbook authoring for doing so.
About the Speakers
Dr. Lisa Shin
Lisa Shin earned her AB from Dartmouth College, her PhD in psychology at Harvard University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychiatric neuroimaging in the Department of Psychiatry at The Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She has been on the faculty at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts since 1998, where she is currently professor and chair in the Department of Psychology.
The principal theme of Dr. Shin’s research involves examining brain function and cognitive processing in patients with anxiety disorders, particularly posttraumatic stress disorder. She received the Chaim Danieli Young Professional Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the Young Investigator’s Research Award from the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. She is an author of the 7th Edition of Invitation to Psychology, co-authored with Carole Wade, Carol Tavris, and Sam Sommers.
Dr. Sam Sommers
Sam Sommers earned his BA from Williams College and his PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan. Since 2003, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, where he has won multiple teaching awards, including being named Professor of the Year in 2009. His research examines issues related to stereotyping, intergroup relations, and group diversity, with a particular interest in how these processes play out in the legal domain.
He is an author of the 9th Edition of Social Psychology, co-authored with Elliot Aronson, Tim Wilson, and Robin Akert, as well as the 7th Edition of Invitation to Psychology, co-authored with Carole Wade, Carol Tavris, and Lisa Shin. He has also written two general audience books, Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World (2011), and This is Your Brain on Sports (2016), co-authored with L. Jon Wertheim of Sports Illustrated.
