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2025 SCERT Conference on Neurodevelopmental Conditions

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:51:28 +0000

Registration for the 2025 SCERT Conference on Neurodevelopmental Conditions is now open, including for the poster session.

�� Homecoming

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:32:22 +0000

Reconnect with classmates and rediscover �� at Homecoming Celebration Weekend taking place October 23-25, 2025!

�� Open House

admin — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:20:44 +0000

Meet members of the �� Education Community, join in activities, and get a feel for campus at Open House!

The Faculty of Education will be offering:

OFNIE Turns 50! Celebrating First Nations and Inuit In-Community Teacher Education

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:18:04 +0000

�� marks 50 years of training First Nations and Inuit teachers in their languages and communities Office of First Nations and Inuit Education (OFNIE) works collaboratively with communities to co-create and deliver programs

Registration for the 2025 SCERT Conference on Neurodevelopmental Conditions is Now Open

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:02:44 +0000

Registration for the 2025 SCERT Conference on Neurodevelopmental Conditions is now open, including for the poster session.
The conference will take place on Friday, November 14th, 2025, at the Plaza Centre-Ville in downtown Montreal. Please feel free to share the news with your colleagues, students, and community!

New Resource for Early Childhood Emotion Regulation and Anxiety Management

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:27:12 +0000

The Daniel and Monica Gold Centre for Early Childhood Development, in collaboration with �� EMHR, is pleased to present a new resource, "Tantrums and more: Practical strategies for healthy emotion regulation development in early childhood”. These resources are designed for professionals and caregivers working with young children, providing evidence-based strategies to aid children’s emotion regulation and anxiety management, which can be hard to find.

CBC Radio Interviews Sheryl Smith-Gilman about the Proposed Bill 21 Expansion

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:07:53 +0000

Bill 21, Québec’s law banning public employees in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols at work, is at risk of being expanded in a way that would extend the restrictions further into areas that may affect early childhood education and daycare settings. CBC's Sean Henry of Daybreak Montreal looks at the potential impacts on staffing and children’s educational environment, including an interview with �� Education's Dr.

DISE's Nanre Nafziger Appointed a 2025 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:06:57 +0000

We are proud to announce that Nanre Nafziger, DISE, is a 2025 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research topic is Contestations for Nigerian History Education in Primary and Secondary Schools: from Colonialism to Neocolonialism. This year, the selection committee, comprised of leading scholars in education research, selected 25 fellows from an extremely competitive pool of 270 education scholars.

OFNIE Marks 50 Years of In-Community First Nations and Inuit Teacher Education

admin — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:23:41 +0000

The Office of First Nations and Inuit Education (OFNIE) celebrates its 50th anniversary in September 2025.

Back-to-School Tips for Families from �� Education Experts

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:41:05 +0000

As summer draws to a close and the school year looms, families across Montreal are grappling not just with backpacks and schedules—but with emotions too. CTV's Rachel Lau interviewed Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) experts, Sheryl Smith-Gilman and Joseph Levitan, who offer essential strategies to help parents ease their children back into the routine of school life.

Congratulations to Rachelle Aucoin for Successfully Defending Her Dissertation

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:14:19 +0000

Rachelle Aucoin successfully defended her PhD Oral Defence in Currie Room 304 - Tassone on July 14, 2025.

The title of her thesis:
"Cool Air, Clear Relief: Exploring the Mechanisms and Utility of Fan-to-Face Therapy for Management of Exertional Breathlessness in Chronic Lung Disease "

Oral Defence Comittee:
Dr. Dennis Jensen (Supervisor), Dr. Jenna Gibbs, Dr. Dina Brooks, Dr. Celena Scheede-Bergdahl and Dr. Daniel Fortin-Guichard.

Kiana Kishiyana Explores Adoptee Identity as an SSHRC Storytellers Challenge Finalist

admin — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:02:03 +0000

(The following is an excerpt from the �� Reporter. Article by Katherine Gombay.)

Kiana Kishiyama remembers feeling scared when, at the start of her first undergraduate class in beginner’s Mandarin, her teacher looked at her and said, “You need to speak to me after class.”

“And I’m like, what, I’m in trouble already?”

It turned out that the teacher believed that Kishiyama, who was adopted from China by a Canadian couple, was just being modest about her language skills.

$268,000 awarded to support outreach activities by �� researchers

admin — Tue, 27 May 2025 16:40:59 +0000

Seven �� researchers have been awarded more than $268,000 in Connection Grants by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Dr. Tina Montreuil, ECP, Awarded the Prestigious FRQS Chercheur Boursier Junior 2 Award

admin — Fri, 02 May 2025 19:33:15 +0000

Dr. Tina Montreuil, a researcher at the Educational and Counselling Psychology Department (Associate Member of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences), has been awarded the prestigious FRQS Chercheur Boursier Junior 2 award this past April 2025.

Montreal researchers use AI and wearable sensors to detect inflammation before symptoms appear

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:21:21 +0000

The world's first wearable-powered system predicts acute inflammation with 90 per cent sensitivity.

Montreal, July 30, 2025 – Modern medicine is largely reactive—treating illness only after symptoms emerge. But a new study from the Research Institute of the �� Health Centre (The Institute) and �� points to a more proactive future: one where silent signs of infection are detected before we even feel sick.