8:30 – 9:45 (Slot 1- 2 sessions)

Schools AS Communities and IN Communities
Chair/facilitator: Robert Macmillan (UWO)
The establishment of school-community partnerships, the differing roles of secondary school educators and the impact of social contexts
Catherine Hands (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Two sides of learning communities: Developing leaders within schools and across systems
Mary Nanavati (Peel District School Board)

Holding the reins of the professional learning community: A study of the perceptions of Manitoba school principals concerning the statutory duty to evaluate teachers, and the normative imperative to create professional learning communities
Jerome Cranston (U. of Manitoba)

Innovative teaching practices in educational administration
Chair/facilitator: Barbara Gill (UNB)

Reel Stories: Using films as teaching tools
Hope-Arlene Fennell (Lakehead U.)

On-line learning in educational administration: Reflections on my virtual journey
Renee Kuchapski (Brock U.)

Change agents and the adoption of Web-based courses by university professors
Scott Reid (U. of Ottawa)

10:00 – 11:15 (Slot 2)

CSSE Plenary

11:30 – 1:00 (Slot 3 – 2 sessions)

Learning and professional communities
Chair/facilitator: Renee Kuchapski (Brock U.)

Individual and organizational outcomes of a mentoring program based on the learning organization
Lyse Langlois (Laval U.), Claire Lapointe (Laval U.)

Assessing school district learning community capacity and satisfaction
Scott Tunison (Saskatoon Public Schools), Larry Sackney (U. of Saskatchewan) and Karen Anderson (Saskatoon Public Schools)

Students’ perceptions of schools as learning communities
Coral Mitchell (Brock U.), Larry Sackney (U. of Saskatchewan) and Keith Walker (U. of Saskatchewan)

Teacher-related leadership issues
Chair/facilitator: Cindy Rottman (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Perspectives on pre-service admissions policies that explicitly encourage diversity
Virginia Stead (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Changes in pre-service teachers’pupil control ideology during a pre-service teacher education program
Glenn Rideout (King’s University College)

The language of pre-service teaching: Making sense of a profession
David Burgess (U. of Saskatchewan)

1:15 – 2:45 (Slot 4 – 2 sessions)

Educator Perspectives of Learning Communities
Chair/facilitator: Hope-Arlene Fennel (Lakehead U.)

Teacher perceptions of collective efficacy in professional learning communities
Hanne Mawhinney (U. of Maryland), Carolyn Wood (Harford County Public Schools), Jackie Hass (Harford County Public Schools)

Conflicting views of community function: A dichotomy between administrators and teachers
Gerald Fallon (UWO), John Barnett (UWO)

Leading Learning and leading teachers: Re-thinking middle leadership
Helen Gunter (U. of Manchester), Tanya Fitzgerald (Unitec New Zealand)

Teacher-related leadership issues
Chair/facilitator: Scott Reid (U. of Ottawa)

Diversity within the teacher workforce: What administrators need to know
Katina Pollock (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Applying alternate policy approaches to understand the policy case of internationally trained teachers for today’s globalized world
Michelle Goldberg (OISE-IÉPO/UT), Sue Winton (OISE-IÉPO/UT), Zahra Bhanji (OISE-IÉPO/UT), Katina Pollock (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Establishing support for teachers in the multi cultural/diverse classroom
E. Anne Halsall (State University of West Virginia)

3:00 – 4:15 (Slot 5 – 2 sessions)

Pedagogies at risk: Just schooling and accountability discourse
Chair/facilitator: Larry Sackney (U. of Saskatchewan)

John Portelli (OISE-IÉPO/UT), Herveen Singh (OISE-IÉPO/UT), Ann Vibert (Acadia U.), Barbara Morton-Winters (Acadia U.), Carolyn Shields (U. Illinois Urbana-Champagne)

Understanding Teachers’ Challenges and Commitment
Chair/facilitator: Scott Tunison (Saskatoon Public Schools)

Teacher workload: Implications for districts and school leadership
David Dibbon (Memorial U.)

Understanding teacher commitment
Jingping Sun (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

«Nothing prepared me»: The evolution of endurance
Rolene Betts (UNB)

4:30 – 5:45 (Slot 6 – 2 sessions)

Leadership from a queer perspective
Chair/facilitator: David MacKinnon (Acadia U.)

Queering educational leadership from the inside out
Cindy Rottman (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Understanding leadership from a queer perspective
Ellen Retelle (Lethbridg U.)

Equity Issues in Education
Chair/facilitator: Carolyn Shields (U. Illinois Urbana-Champagne)

A comparison of funding formulas in Ontario and Alberta. Which one is more equitable?
Xiaobin Li (Brock U.)

Special education and the Somali Canadian experience
Cam Cobb (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Re-vitalizing linguistic minorities using the support of ITCs
Claire IsaBelle (U. d’Ottawa), Phillis Dalley (U. d’Ottawa), François Desjardins (U. d’Ottawa), Hélène Fournier (ITI-CNRC Moncton)

DAY 2 – Sunday, May 28, 2006

8:30 – 9:45 (Slot 7 – 2 sessions)

Leadership issues in rural education
Chair/facilitator: Katina Pollock (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Leadership challenges in secondary school improvement: A northern perspective
Rosemary Foster (U. of Alberta)

Macro-level reform in Quebec and its impact on rural school boards: A pattern analysis
David Young (UWO)

Mapping the educational landscape: Rural Educational priorities and capacity
Dawn Wallin (U. of Manitoba)

Changes and chances in higher education
Chair/facilitator: E. Anne Halsall (State University of West Virginia)

«Go West, young human»: Discourses of democracy, performativity and the world market in Ontario college curriculum planning
Anita Arvast, (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

From the faculty perspective: Factors that influence the process of culture development within a school of education
Emily Addison (U. of Ottawa)

Out of their minds: Responses of university presidents to the ANNULÉ challenges of the new economy
Lynn Bosetti (U. of Calgary), Keith Walker (U. of Calgary), Christine Johns (U. of Calgary) and Donna DesBiens (U. of Calgary)

10:00 – 11:15 (Slot 8 – 2 sessions)

Feminist analysis in educational leadership

Chair/facilitator: Ellen Retelle (Lethbridg U.)

Conceptualizing feminist educational leadership in Alberta
Amy Burns (U. of Calgary)

Knowledge transfer in university settings: tipping silos into bridges of opportunity
Colleen Kawalilak (U. of Calgary), Lynn Bosetti (U. of Calgary), Peggy Patterson (U. of Calgary)

Interrogating authentic leadership: Deconstructing through dialogue
Sabrina Redwing Saunders (OISE-IÉPO/UT), Erin Irish (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

CRC
Chair: David MacKinnon, Acadia University

Global Governance and Educational Change
Karen Mundy, OISE-UT

11:30 – 1:00 (Slot 9 – 1 session)
CASEA 15 CASEA Annual General Meeting
Chair: David MacKinnon (Acadia U.)

1:15 – 2:45 (Slot 10 – 1 session)
Chair: Derek Allison, UWO
Greenfield Dissertation Award Presentation

3:00 – 4:15 (Slot 11– 2 sessions)

Aboriginal Perspectives in Educational Administration
Chair: Dawn Wallin (U. of Manitoba)

Aboriginal views on parent involvement in school improvement: Epistemological and ontological distinctions
Bonnie Stelmach (U. of Alberta)

Hear our voices: Aboriginal youth share educational experiences and their hopes and dreams for the future
Sandra Umpleby (U. of Victoria)

Understanding school administration in Nunavut through critical narrative inquiry
Caroline Thompson (UWO)

School District Leadership
Chair: David Young (UWO)

A school district CEO’s journal: Where theory and practice meet
Jean Brown (UWO), Bruce Sheppard (UWO)

The school district and the development of trust in new principals: Policies and actions that influence succession
Robert Macmillan (UWO), Matthew Meyer (StFX U.), Shawn Northfield (U. of Nottingham), Michael Foley (MSVU)

4:30 – 5:45 (Slot 12– 2 sessions)

Aboriginal Issues in Educational Leadership
Chair/facilitator: Anita Arvast (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

First Nations Program development in a post secondary setting: Malaspina University College
Marlene Atleo (U. of Manitoba), E. Richard Atleo (U. of Manitoba)

A treaty right to education: In search of Her Majesty’s bounty and benevolence
Sheila Carr-Stewart (U. of Saskatchewan)

Community-Based Aboriginal curriculum initiatives: A dialogue about the research and its progress
Helen Armstrong (Brandon U.)

Issues of Assessment and Accountability
Chair/facilitator: TBC

Experiencing sanctions-The impact of NCLB upon one US school district: A case study
Roger Wilson (Grand Valley State U.)

An alternative vision for large-scale assessment in Canada
Louis Volante, Brock University

District-level policies of performance based on accountability
Saad Chahine (OISE-IÉPO/UT), Sonia Ben Jaafar (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

DAY 3 – Monday, May 29, 2006

8:30 – 9:45 (Slot 13 – 2 sessions)

BELMAS SESSION
Chair: Tim Goddard (U. of Calgary)

Muslim students and religious identity: A challenge for school leaders in the post 9/11 and 7/7 scenario
Saeeda Shah (University of Leicester, UK)

The role played by deputy head-teachers in school administration- Perceptions of the Greek primary deputy-heads
Anna Saiti,( Harokopio University, Greece)

Assessment for organizational learning
Rose Hegan, (University of Glamorgan) and Chris Janes, (University of Bath, UK)

Inclusive schools project: Moving from critique to possibility
Chair: Brenda McMahon
Jim Ryan (OISE-IÉPO/UT), Reva Joshee (OISE-IÉPO/UT), Michelle Goldberg(OISE-IÉPO/UT), Yvette DeBeer(OISE-IÉPO/UT), Carol Brayman (OISE-IÉPO/UT), Garrette Whittick (OISE-IÉPO/UT), Katina Pollock (OISE-IÉPO/UT), Sabrina Saunders (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

10:00 – 11:15 (Slot 14)

CANCELED - Heather Duncan (U. of Wyoming)
Social capital and On-line learning
- Sarah Elaine Eaton (U. of Calgary)
Alberta’s languages initiative- Education as a commodity in a globalized world
Chair/Discussant: George Bedard (Lethbridge U.)

- Sarah Bates (OISE-IÉPO/UT)
How are we supporting beginning teachers? A review of mentoring and induction programs
- Jingpin Sun (OISE-IÉPO/UT)
Principal leadership influences student outcomes through the mediating influence of teacher commitment: A review
Chair/Discussant: Glenn Rideout (King’s University College)

- Xiaoyan Wang (OISE-IÉPO/UT) and Ruth Rees (Queen’s U.)
A study of caring by department leaders
- Beverly Freedman, (OISE-IÉPO/UT)
4 women of power
Chair/Discussant: Wendy Poole (UBC)

- Willow Brown (UNBC)
Cultivating a giving tree: Enacting a learning community framework for school improvement
- Ganna Yashkina (OISE-IÉPO/UT)
Distributing leadership within a professional learning community
Chair/Discussant: Coral Mitchell (Brock U.)

- Beate Planche (York Region District School Board)
Authentic Collaboration: Leadership’s critical work at the heart of improving schools
CANCELED - Tom Miller (OISE-IÉPO/UT)
Confronting homophobia and heterosexism in Ontario’s public schools: Supporting educators to keep their balance on a proverbial tight-rope
Chair/Discussant: Hanne Mawhinney (U. of Maryland)

11:30 – 1:00 (Slot 15)

CSSE Annual General Meeting

1:15– 2:45 (Slot 16 - 2 sessions)

Student-related issues
Chair: Michelle Goldberg (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Schools as sites for democracy and transformation: Envisioning an equitable future
Brenda McMahon (Nipissing U.)

The Fourth R – School wide relationship-based violence prevention
Shannon Dobko (U. of Saskatchewan)

At risk students – The impact of alternative education
Laura Nancy Del Cotto-Kaminski (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Discussions on empowerment, capacity building & deficit thinking
Chair: Jim Ryan (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Living the parallels of the strategic vision and empowerment: The Independent School
Kathleen Ronsyn (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Laying the blame: Deficit thinking and urban school principals
Joseph Flessa (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Investigating teacher leadership as a means of capacity building
Heike Bronson (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

3:00 – 4:15 (Slot 17 – 2 sessions)

The politics of educational administration
Chair/facilitator: Marlene Atleo (U. of Manitoba)

Neo-liberalism and collective bargaining in Canadian education
Wendy Poole (UBC)

Student engagement in a time of curriculum reform and political upheaval
Sharon Gaydos (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

High school to university: How effective is the New Ontario Curriculum
Patrick Brady (Lakehead U.), Philip Allingham (Lakehead U.)

Literacy and numeracy
Chair: Sonia Ben Jaafar (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Principals’ beliefs re students’ achievement in writing: the Case of French-language schools in Canada
Yamina Bouchamma (U. of Moncton), Claire Lapointe (U. Laval), Jean-François Richard (U. of Moncton)

Successful practices in literacy and numeracy
Clay Lafleur (Simcoe County DSB), Avis Glaze (Literacy & Numeracy Secretariat)

4:30 – 5:45 (Slot 18 – 2 sessions)

Social justice: From theory to praxis
Chair/facilitator: Sheila Carr-Stewart (U. of Saskatchewan)

Social imaginaries and the socially imagined: Administration and the construction of otherness
Martin Barlosky (U. of Ottawa)

Praxis and pedagogy: Teachers’ conceptions of social justice in a context of school improvement
Brenda St. Hilaire (U. of Manitoba)

Rights of passage- Linking vice-principal socialization practiceds to equitable schooling
Denise Armstrong (Brock U.)

Re-searching educational leadership
Chair: Jean Brown (Memorial U.)

The clock and the waterfall: Leadership, complexity science and the new Phoenix
Malcolm Richmon (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Appreciative inquiry: A spiritual approach to research
Nancy Doetzel (U. of Calgary)

Variations on the theme of educational leadership: Gender, experience and context-related differences on the meaning given to leadership by principals
Claire Lapointe (Laval U.), Lyse Langlois (Laval U.),

CASEA BANQUET

DAY 4 – Tuesday, May 30, 2006

8:30 – 9:45 (Slot 19 – 1 session)

CASEA Seminar:
Chair: Rosemary Foster, University of Alberta

Cutting our Teeth" in the Academy: New Ed Admin Scholars Speak Up and Out
Ken Brien (UNB), Jacqueline Ottman (U. of Calgary), Annie Pilote (Université Laval), Dawn Wallin (University of Manitoba), Randy Wimmer (University of Saskatchewan)

10:00 – 11:15 (Slot 20 – 1 session)

CASEA Seminar:
Chair: Rosemary Foster, University of Alberta

Cutting our Teeth" in the Academy: New Ed Admin Scholars Speak Up and Out
Ken Brien (UNB), Jacqueline Ottman (U. of Alberta), Annie Pilote (Université Laval), Dawn Wallin (University of Manitoba), Randy Wimmer (University of Saskatchewan)

11:30 – 1:00 (Slot 21 – 2 sessions)

Parent involvement in schools
Chair/facilitator: Clay Lafleur (Simcoe County DSB)

Parent engagement: The role of the school leader
Debbie Puchor (U. of Saskatchewan), Claudia Ruitenberg (UBC), Martina Cain (U. of Saskatchewan)

Legal contexts of parent-teacher interactions in schools : Implications for diversity, democracy and the future
Ken Brien (UNB)

Leadership standards and principal certification
Chair/facilitator: Denise Armstrong (Brock U.)

Standards and certification for school administrators
Dan Brown (UBC)

Leadership standards and the new challenge to faculties of education in Alberta
George Bedard (Lethbridge U.), Art Aitken (Lethbridge U.)

Senior administrators’ beliefs about the nature of technological leadership
Scott Tunison (Saskatoon Public Schools), Paul Newton (U. of Saskatchewan)

1:15 – 2:45 (Slot 22 – 2 sessions)

Questioning policy-making
Chair/facilitator: Janice Wallace (U. of Alberta)

Character education: Policy and persuasion
Sue Winton (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

What shapes inner-city education policy?
Ben Levin (OISE-IÉPO/UT), Jane Gaskell (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

School leadership and educational accountability
Sonia Ben Jaafar (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Ethical & Transformational Leadership
Chair: Lyse Langlois (Laval U.)

Reconceptualizing leadership preparation in school districts: Situating social justice practices within an accountability context
Lindy Zaretsky (Simcoe County DSB), Lisa Walsh (York Region DSB)

Contexts for ethics in school decision-making
Tim Goddard (U. Of Calgary), Jennie Billot (Unitec New Zealand), Neil Cranston (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Joe Diorio (Unitec New Zealand)

Transformative leadership: Achieving equity in educational change
Carolyn Shields (U. Illinois Urbana-Champagne)

3:00– 4:15 (Slot 23– 2 sessions)

CASEA’s Doctoral Dissertation Awards, 1978-2005: What’s still so Canadian about educational leadership in Canada?
Chair/facilitator: John Stapleton
Jennifer Lawson (U. of Manitoba), Connie Allsopp (U. of Manitoba), Janice Stewart (U. of Manitoba)

Knowing Leadership
Chair: Rosemary Foster (U. of Alberta)
Dolores van der Wey (U. of Alberta), Brenda Spencer (U. of Alberta), Janice Wallace (U. of Alberta), Cara Ellingson (York U.)

4:30– 5:45 (Slot 24– 2 sessions)

Principal succession/Rotation management: Values, processes and the future
Chair: Robert Macmillan (UWO)
Cecilia Reynolds (U. of Saskatchewan), Robert White (St F.-X. U.), Shawn Moore (OISE-IÉPO/UT), Carol Brayman (OISE-IÉPO/UT), Matthew Meyer (St F.-X. U.), Robert Macmillan (UWO), Shawn Northfield, (U. of Nottingham), Michael Foley (MSVU), Karyn Cooper (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

Mapping the social justice landscape in educational administration
Chair: Jim Ryan (OISE-IÉPO/UT)
Reva Joshee (OISE-IÉPO/UT), David MacKinnon (Acadia U.), Jacqueline Ottman (U. of Alberta), Ann Vibert (Acadia U.), Lynette Shultz (U. of Alberta), Janice Wallace (U. of Alberta).