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Meet a Grad Student: Diana Karolina Grimaldos

This month’s graduate student profile features Diana Karolia Grimaldos, a part-time graduate student in the Master of Leadership and Community Engagement Program (MLCE). Grimaldos’ research interest lies in the intersection of community engagement and equity in education. “I pursue this area of research because of my direct experience with the non-for-profit sector, which led me to work with racialized parents who have experienced racism and discrimination within the education system,” she says.

IN THE MEDIA: Directors of education should have teaching experience, critics tell Ford government

Critics are calling on the government not to change the qualifications for directors of education, saying the person at the helm of a school board should have teaching experience. An online petition created by York University Assistant Professor Vidya Shah and Toronto principal Alison Gaymes San Vicente had almost 30,000 signatures by late Friday afternoon. The change.org […]

Recent BEd grad Kim Tran wins OSSTF award

Congratulations to Kim Tran, a recent graduate of the Faculty’s Concurrent Bachelor of Education program who was selected as one of the recipients of the 2020 OSSTF/FEESO Faculty of Education Award for this past school year. Valued at $1,000, the annual award is presented to one graduating Intermediate/Senior or Technological Education teacher candidate at each […]

IN THE MEDIA: As Ontario school boards hunt for leaders, the TDSB gets bold on a key question: Who selects the director?

As school boards across Ontario teeter on the cusp of change, with at least 14 boards looking to select a new director of education, academics, parents and community members of the country’s largest stepped forward at a trustee meeting on Thursday. “It’s fair to ask how the trustees would go about choosing a director at […]

The Conversation: Ending ‘streaming’ is only the first step to dismantling systemic racism in Ontario schools

Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, Carl James, recently wrote an op-ed piece for the Conversation Canada about the Ontario Government’s recent announcement to end streaming in Grade 9. “Last week, the Ontario government announced its plan to end streaming in Grade 9, something Education Minister Stephen Lecce acknowledged is a […]

IN THE MEDIA: Transitioning back to daycare after COVID-19

Cristina Delgado Vintimilla, an assistant professor of early childhood in York University’s Faculty of Education talks about how to transition back to daycare after COVID-19. “Daycare will look a little different than what we were used to, classrooms will be smaller, children won’t be able to mingle with children from other groups” says Vintimilla.

Doctoral student Isaac Garcia-Sitton shortlisted for RBC Canadian Immigrant Award

Isaac Garcia-Sitton, a doctoral student at York’s Faculty of Education and director, International Education & English Language Institute at York University’s School of Continuing Studies, has been named a finalist for RBC’s Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards. Isaac Garcia-Sitton For more than 12 years, the Canadian Immigrant Awards, organized by Canadian Immigrant Magazine, has recognized […]

IN THE MEDIA: Ontario made the right call on streaming. A student’s future should not be decided in Grade 9

This week, the Government of Ontario announced that it would end streaming in Grade 9. Research by Carl James, York University Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, is not alone in showing that Black Canadians and especially historic Black Canadians (compared with those from the families of recent immigrants) are far more […]

IN THE MEDIA: Ontario to ban suspensions for children in Grade 3 and below in efforts to rid education system of racism

Ontario will stop suspending children from junior kindergarten to Grade 3, a practice that has been shown to disproportionately impact Black students. A 2017 study by Carl James, the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community, and Diaspora at York University’s Faculty of Education, reported Black students were more than twice as likely as other racialized […]

IN THE MEDIA: Ending Academic Streaming in Schools

Faculty of Education Professor Carl James led research on streaming back in 2017 and found it disproportionately affected Black students. “The ways in which teachers perceive Black students’ abilities in the context of systemic racism means that we have assumptions about the potential of Black students.”