2001 Conference Program

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2005 Conference Program

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2007 Conference Program

8:30 – 9:45 (Slot 1- 2 sessions)

Frank Peters (Alberta)
Remaking Education in Canada

Deani Van Pelt (UWO)
Home Education in Canada: A contextualized comparison and evaluation of provincial and territorial policies

Innovative Practices
Chair/facilitator:

Twyla Salm (Regina)
(Dis)Solving Boundaries: Understanding how human services sectors integrate in the context of SchoolPLUS

Martine Leclerc (UQO)
Teachers’ perceptions of ITC enhanced changes in elementary education

Eugene Kowch (Calgary)
A proposal for a new kind of leader capacity: Educational technology leadership and the generation of social capital

10:00 – 11:15 (Slot 2)

CSSE Plenary

11:30 – 1:00 (Slot 3 – 2 sessions)

Inclusive Leadership: Theory and Practice
Chair/facilitator:

James Ryan (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
The inclusive leadership framework

Jasmin Zine (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
The critical integrative approach to inclusive schooling

Sonia James-Wilson (Rochester)
Preparing new teachers to become agents of change in urban schools: an inclusive teacher leadership approach

David MacKinnon (Acadia)
Preparing school administrators for social justice: drawing on critical approaches to inclusion and leadership

School District Leadership
Chair/facilitator:

Blair Mascall, Carol Rolheiser, Christine Anderson and Debra Wallace (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Districts building school capacity: A comparison of two schools

Samina Jamal and Blair Mascall (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
What disctricts do

Scott Tunison and Paul Newton (Saskatchewan)
Snake oil or miracle cure: An examination of district-level technology leadership and school system technology planning

1:15 – 2:45 (Slot 4 – 2 sessions)

Social Justice in Education
Chair/facilitator:

Derek Allison (UWO), Dan Brown (UBC) and John Long (Manitoba)
Reconsidering Social Justice in Education

Learning Communities
Chair/facilitator:

Coral Mitchel (Brock), Larry Sackney (Saskatchewan) and Keith Walker (Saskatchewan)
Building models for learning communities

Heather Duncan (Saskatchewan)
Adult learning community development on-line: A social capital perspective

John Barnett (UWO) and Gerald Fallon (UWO)
Good things will happen: Extending the process of classroom community to the school

3:00 – 4:15 (Slot 5 – 2 sessions)

From teachers to vice-principals
Chair/facilitator:

Glenn Rideout (King’s)
Predictors of pre-service teachers’ pupil control ideologies

Ken Brien (Alberta)
Disciplinary alternatives to suspension: Options and considerations of high school vice-principals

Denise Armstrong (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Personal change and organizational passages: Transitions from teaching to the administration in a reform climate

Home-School Relationships
Chair/facilitator:

Joan Shaw (UWO)
Parents as partners? A Case Study of Crossroads Elementary in British Columbia

Kathy Broad (OISE-IÉPO-UT), Karen Edge (OISE-IÉPO-UT), Heather McCuaig Edge (Carleton), Maria Mylopoulos (OISE-IÉPO-UT), Katina Pollock (OISE-IÉPO-UT) and Mary-Lynn Tessaro (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Bridging the home-school divide: Lessons from the Kindergarten Welcome Bag

Kirk Anderson (Calgary)
Exemplary practices in Aboriginal education. Sharing our successes.

4:30 – 5:45 (Slot 6 – 2 sessions)

Law and Dis-order in Education
Chair/facilitator:

Cesaro Oliverio (Brock) and Michael E. Manley-Casimir (Brock)
The judicial construction of the school as a social institution: II

Lyse Langlois (Université Laval) and Claire Lapointe (Université Laval)
Section 23 and ethical dilemmas: Challenges facing principals

John Stapleton
Leadership challenges in Canada’s Catholic schools

Changes in Education
Chair/facilitator:

Kirsten Parker (SCDSB) and Clay Lafleur (SCDSB- OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Early start time in secondary schools: Implications for policy and practice

Clay Lafleur (SCDSB- OISE-IÉPO-UT) and Lou Brandes (SCDSB)
The balanced school day three years later: The views of twelve principals and the everyday reality in three schools

Dan Brown (UBC)
School choice under open enrollment

DAY 2 – Sunday, May 29, 2005

8:30 – 9:45 (Slot 7 – 2 sessions)

Expanding Traditional Notions of Policy: Theory and Practice
Chair/facilitator:

Susan Winton (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Policy as a spiral: A useful metaphor for understanding Ontario’s double cohort phenomenon

Michelle Goldberg (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Policy as discourse: Evident in access to professions and trades in Ontario?

Zahra Bhanji (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Policy as a response: How does globalization act as a policy driver in Tanzania?

Katina Pollock (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Policy as regulations: Are inequities generated through Teacher Recruitment Agencies (TRAs) in England?

Teacher Induction
Chair/facilitator:

Anne Halsall (SUWG)
Teacher induction programs: The measure of their success

Rolene Betts (UNB)
Teaching without professional support: Lived experiences of novice New Brunswick teachers

Lorenzo Cherubini
Demystifying leadership: A reorientation of teacher induction

10:00 – 11:15 (Slot 8 – 2 sessions)

un-Heard Voices in Policy-making
Chair/facilitator:

Dawn Wallin (Manitoba)
Rural education and school reform: The missing voice in educational policy development

Nina Bascia and Cindy Rottmann (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Teacher union under siege: The Alberta Teachers’ Association in an era of centralized educational reform

Michelle Stack (UBC)
Journalists, policymakers and what happens in schools: An analysis of the relationship between journalists and educational policymakers

Teacher Development
Chair:

Barry Rowe (Université Sainte-Anne)
The influence of teacher efficacy and readiness for self-directed learning on teacher professional growth

Maria Mylopoulos and Karen Edge (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Creating cross-school connections: Teacher leader networking to enhance learning and leadership

Benjamin Kutsyuruba (Saskatchewan)
Micropolitics of professional teacher collaboration in the context of social change in Ukraine

11:30 – 1:00 (Slot 9 – 1 session)
CASEA 15 CASEA Annual General Meeting
Session
R2038 (Lecture Hall) Chair: David MacKinnon (Acadia)

1:15 – 2:45 (Slot 10 – 1 session) (Parallele to CSSE’s Michael Manley-Casimir Symposium)
CASEA 16 Scholarly Practitioners or Practicing Scholars? Walking the Tight
Rope Between Theory and Practice in Educational Administration

Chair/facilitator:

Denese Belchetz (YRDSB)
Waiting for the light to turn green: Leadership in the context of accountability

Beate Planche (YRDSB)
All for one and one for all: Collaboration in professional learning communities

Malcolm Richmon (YRDSB)
Building the perfect principal: A social constructivist perspective on administration

Lindy Zaretsky (YRDSB)
Flipping the special education coin: The heads and tails of administering schools for students with different needs

3:00 – 4:15 (Slot 11 – 1 session)
CASEA 17 Greenfield Dissertation Award Presentation
R2038 (Lecture Hall) Chair: Bob MacMillan

4:30 – 5:45 (Slot 12 – 2 sessions)

Improving Literacy
Chair/facilitator:

Yamina Bouchamma (Moncton), Sylvie Blain (Moncton), Claire Lapointe (Laval) et Jean-François Richard (Moncton)
Using national data to improve pedagogical leadership: The case of French-speaking students in Canada

Xiao Ying Shang (San Diego Community College), Lucie DeBlois (Laval), Marc-André Deniger (Laval) and Michel Rousseau (Moncton)
Social capital and the building of reading literacy

Karen Edge (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Knowledge management in education systems: Validating practitioners and supporting educational change

Questioning practices
Chair/facilitator:

Randolf Wimmer (Saskatchewan), Ann Chinnery (Sask.), Don Cochrane (Sask) and Melanie Morrison (Sask)
Breaking the silence: Teacher observations of behaviour affecting gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender students and staff in Saskatchewan secondary schools

Katina Pollock (OISE-IÉPO-UT) and David W. Livingstone (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Underrepresentation and underemployment of highly qualified women and minorities in senior corporate positions: A call for change in corporate administrative policies and practices

Michelle Goldberg (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Using a discursive lens to examine access to professions and trades

DAY 3 - Monday, May 30, 2005

8:30 – 9:45 (Slot 13 – 2 sessions)

Issues Facing Students
Chair/facilitator:

John R. Fisher (NMSU) and Darwin Eckstrom (Peace Wapiti SB)
Communication and connectedness in the high school classroom

Brenda McMahon (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Student transformations: Small steps and quiet processes

Erica Mohen (UBC) and Carolyn Shields (UBC)
The construction of identity among multi-ethnic students

The Principalship
Chair/facilitator:

Zacharia Wanzare (Alberta) and Joe da Costa (Alberta)
A survey of Alberta principals’ professional development and instructional leadership needs: Selected major findings from Phase 1

Carolyn Crippen (Manitoba)
First to serve, then to lead: Servant leadership in the learning community

Tim Goddard (Calgary)
THIS is leadership

10:00 – 11:15 (Slot 14)

Round table
Hanne Mawhinney (Maryland) and Darla Strouse (MSDE)
School performance awards: Impacting leadership in school improvement

Round table
Sonya Pancucci (Brock))
Professional learning communities: How teachers shape them

Discussant:

Round table
Heather Rintoul (Nipissing)
Educational Leadership, values and ethical decision-making

Discussant:

Round table
Rosemary Foster (Alberta) and Bonnie Stelmach (Alberta)
Leadership in improving secondary schools: A northern perspective

Round table
Bonnie Stelmach (Alberta)
Moat, boat, ferry, feet: Educator and parent metaphors for parent involvement

Discussant:

Round table
Michelle Schmidt (SFU)
Moral leadership in action

Discussant:

Round table
John Burger (Alberta Learning)
Early school leaving

Discussant:

Round table
Hanne Mawhinney (Maryland)
Responding to the new vernacular North American geopolitical economics: Scaling up for a cosmopolitan education policy across borders

Round table

11:30 – 1:00 (Slot 15)

CSSE Annual General Meeting

Inner-city Education in Urban Canada
Chair/facilitator:

Jane Gaskell (OISE-IÉPO-UT), Laura Lee Kearns (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Urban education in Toronto- a historical look

Ben Levin (Ontario Ministry of Education)
Urban education in Winnipeg- a historical look

Jennifer Lawson (Manitoba)
Leadership in inner-city schools: Critical issues and essential supports

3:00 – 4:15 (Slot 17 – 2 sessions)

BELMAS – Issues in British Educational Administration
Chair/facilitator:

Leadership Redefined
Chair/facilitator:

Claire Lapointe (Laval), Lyse Langlois (Laval) and Michel St-Germain (Ottawa)
The leadership of heritage : Results from a national study in French official-language minority settings

Jacqueline Ottman (Calgary)
The empire and First Nations Leadership: To charge or to retreat?

Nancy Doetzel (Calgary)
Follow your heart: Lead with spirit

4:30 – 5:45 (Slot 18 – 1 session)

Book Launch / CASEA-CASWE Wine and Cheese Reception
Co-chair/Co-facilitators: Aniko Varpalotai (UWO)
and Claire Lapointe (Laval)

CASEA BANQUET

DAY 4 - Monday, May 31, 2005

8:30 – 9:45 (Slot 19 – 1 session)
CASEA 27 CASEA Seminar
R 2038

10:00 – 11:15 (Slot 20 – 1 session)
CASEA 28 CASEA Seminar
R 2038

11:30 – 1:00 (Slot 21 – 2 sessions)

Leadership Under Study
Chair/facilitator:

Shun Li (UWO) and Derek Allison (UWO)
Implications of small group research for educational leadership

Carol Harris (Victoria)
The return to community, lifelong learning and social action: Linking educational administration and adult education

David Burgess (Saskatchewan)
A theoretical zone of interorganizational communication and implications for educational administration

Accounting for Student Attainment
Chair/facilitator:

Sheila Carr-Stewart (Saskatchewan)
First Nations education: Educational and financial accountability and educational attainment

Marjolaine St-Pierre (UQAM)
Strategic planning and student retention: Principals’ perception of Quebec’s “ Stratégie d’intervention agir autrement” (SIAA)

George Bedard (Lethbridge) and Art Aitken (Lethbridge)
Exploring the linkage between leadership practices and selected school improvement projects under the umbrella of the Alberta Initiative for school Improvement (AISI)

1:15 – 2:45 (Slot 22 – 2 session)

Leadership Discussed
Chair/facilitator:

Peggy O’Neil (London Health Sciences Center) and Derek Allison (UWO)
Searching for useful knowledge: Towards an understanding of Leadership fads and fashions

Yanyan Sun (UWO) and Derek Allison (UWO)
School leadership as a distributed process

Wendy Poole (UBC)
Organizational Identity: Theoretical perspectives and their implications for leadership

Assessment and Accountability
Chair/facilitator:

Renée Kuchapski (Brock)
Accountability in democratic governance: Historical intent and implications for education

Sonia Ben Jaafar (OISE-IÉPO-UT)
Responding to provincial assessments in Ontario: The practices of administrators

Louis Volente (Concordia)
Accountability, student assessment and the need for a comprehensive approach