Doctoral candidate Emma Chen has just published a beautiful article in The Conversation.

Here you will find information about a brand new parent engagement course by Debbie Pushor that’s now being offered.

What an honour! You are so deserving! How fortunate we are to have you in our midst; you raise us all up!

On Friday, April 30th, the College of Education hosted a launch of doctoral student Linda Young’s videos,acimowin, Telling and Retelling My Residential School Story.

As the culmination of her master’s program, Linda Young created a video of approx. 1 hour and 15 minutes, sharing and unpacking her experiences in residential schooling, and looking to the future in education for Indigenous students and families. We are holding a video launch on Friday, April 30th at 11 am to introduce Linda’s work to a larger audience

I had the privilege of working with Mike and Stacey Crowe as both undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan. It has been amazing to see them grow and develop as educators, and now as parents too!

On April 6th, it was announced that Emma Chen, one of my doctoral students, was awarded the 2021 Provost’s Award for Graduate Student Teaching at the University of Saskatchewan. Emma taught an undergraduate early childhood course in language and literacy in the Fall term and received great evaluations from her students.

On April 6th, my doctoral student Linda Young joined host Lyndon Linklater for a Virtual Fireside Chat at the Remai Modern Gallery in Saskatoon. Linda is currently one of the artists whose work is on display in the exhibition entitled, An Apology, A Pill, A Ritual, and a Resistance, running from March through June 2021

On Tuesday, April 6th, one of my doctoral students, Belinda Daniels, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, A Life Long Journey Home. Belinda’s doctoral work, presented in a manuscript-style dissertation of nine papers, shares her narrative beginnings, research, and renderings into nēhiyaw (Plains Cree, y dialect) epistemology, the main source of ancestral knowledge continuity in nēhiyaw people.

I am excited to share my recent webinar with Livingtree titled "Shifting from a Schoolcentric to a Familycentric Approach.”

The Chapters of Our Lives is a family memoir project for parents, children, and families. It provides parents with the opportunity to engage in teaching and learning experiences with their children. Further, the course works to preserve the very special relationship you have together.

Join me in a webinar with Livingtree on Wednesday, January 27th at 1 pm CST. Take part in this family engagement conversation about honoring parents’ knowledge and its place in children’s teaching and learning.

Dr. Debbie Pushor returns via zoom with tips for engaging your kids in outdoor winter activities that also contribute to learning goals.

In ECUR 822 Re/Presenting Families in Schools, graduate students were asked to reflect their deepened knowledge and understanding of the meaning of many particular course concepts, critical to re/presenting families in schools, by exploring/interrogating them in relation to the context and particularities of a biography/memoir/dissertation they chose to read. 

CBC Radio - Blue Sky with Garth Materie

November 12, 2020: Learning Outside the Classroom Interview with: Dr. Debbie Pushor, Cam Houle (Parent) Christine Danyluk( Early Learning Coach), Beth Talbot-Ohler (Parent), and phone-in guests.

I would like to celebrate and honour my four graduate students who convocated with their Master of Education degrees on Tuesday, November 10th.