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Matt Ormandy; Alexa Ferdinands; Autumn Nesdoly; Maria Mayan – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This qualitative pilot study introduces and reflects on early development and implementation of the Zero Fee Tuition (ZFT) program in the rural, oil and gas town of Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada. This innovative, primarily municipally funded program, implemented in 2019, provides local students with up to $5,000 in free tuition for select…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tuition, Educational Finance, Tuition Grants
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Benjamin Kutsyuruba; Lorraine Godden; Keith Walker – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2024
Attrition and turnover among early career teachers (ECTs) have garnered the attention of policymakers and educational leaders across Canada. However, due to provincial/territorial responsibility for education in Canada, teacher induction efforts to keep novice teachers in the profession depend on school system structures and policies specific to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teacher Induction, School Policy, Faculty Mobility
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Glenys Mann; Suzanne Carrington; Carly Lassig; Sofia Mavropoulou; Beth Saggers; Shiralee Poed; Callula Killingly – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
Many countries grapple with the tension between commitment to inclusive education reform and the closure of special schools. This tension is particularly problematic for countries, like Australia, that have ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The CRPD is clear that closing special schools is pivotal to…
Descriptors: School Closing, Special Schools, Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities
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Kim G. C. Hellemans; Wayne Horn; Vincent Kazmierski; Martha Mullally; Eileen Harris – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
This article presents the results of the development and implementation of a mentorship program, now in its sixth year, designed to support the professional development of teaching skills for faculty and contract instructors. The program is unique in that it is a combination of a variety of other approaches such as formal and informal mentoring as…
Descriptors: Mentors, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Program Development
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Alexandre E. Da Costa – Critical Education, 2024
The earliest School Resource Officer Programs in Canada date back to the 1970s. This study examines how police officers, teachers, school administrators, students, and journalists use a discourse of relationship-building between police and youth to frame School Resource Officers (SROs): who they are, the work they do, their roles in students'…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Police, Police School Relationship, School Safety
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Whitney M. Hegseth – American Journal of Education, 2024
Purpose: In the wake of interlocking pandemics, educational systems are resetting in important ways, pursuing aims that are not exclusively instructional (e.g., social justice, well-being). As systems (re)build, they may vary in how they manage their institutional and policy environments, which may or may not be reorienting toward these same…
Descriptors: Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Objectives
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Turcotte, Samuel; Shea, Carolann; Raymond, Émilie; Ansaldo, Ana Inés; Bier, Nathalie; Grenier, Sébastien; Hebblethwaite, Shannon; Lamontagne, Marie-Ève; Levasseur, Mélanie; Viscogliosi, Chantal; Ladjadj, Fatima; Filiatrault, Johanne – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2023
Intergenerational initiatives have the potential to bring generations together and can have a wide range of benefits for the health of older adults as well as for the development of young people. This paper presents a five-phase participatory action research protocol for the co-design and pilot implementation of a toolkit supporting…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Program Implementation, Community Organizations
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Kathol, Katja; Leung, Enoch; Flanagan, Tara – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2023
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated school closures across Quebec. Educators shifted to online learning and complied with COVID-19 safety measures for in-person teaching, impacting the implementation of Quebec's Sexuality Education program. Drawing on responses from a sample of 165 inservice teachers working in English school boards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Sex Education
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M. Claire Buchan; Jasmin Bhawra; Tarun Reddy Katapally – Smart Learning Environments, 2024
The rapid expansion of digital connectivity has provided youth with wide-ranging access to digital platforms for communication, entertainment, and education. In light of this profound shift, there have been growing concerns about online safety, data privacy, and cybersecurity. A critical factor influencing the ability of youth to responsibly…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Program Implementation, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
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Stiwich, Kendra D.; Ross, Victoria – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2022
Many postsecondary institutions host a knowledge dissemination event for students to publicly share their scholarly, research, and creative works. These events improve student communication skills and self-efficacy. The authors propose that these events also can affect students' sense of belonging. CREATE is Vancouver Island University's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Conferences (Gatherings), Student Research
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Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Cazarez, Rosa Leonor Ulloa; de Gusmão, Cristine Martins Gomes; Zhang, Xiangyang; Blomgren, Constance; Chaplin-Cheyne, Trish; Burgos, Daniel – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2023
In this article, ambassadors of the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) Open Educational Resources (OER) Advocacy Committee (OERAC) provide a snapshot of regional and global Open Educational Resources (OER)initiatives. This committee has been active since 2017 with membership renewed biannually. The ambassadors work to…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Open Educational Resources, Open Education, Distance Education
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Pilato, Kelly A.; Law, Madelyn P.; Narushima, Miya; Moore, Shannon A.; Hay, John A. – Educational Policy, 2022
The mental wellness of university students can be critical for their success. In an attempt to minimize stress for students, many universities have implemented a policy for a fall break with limited evidence to support its intended outcomes. This case study offers a critical appraisal of the formation of the fall break policy at one medium sized…
Descriptors: Mental Health, School Policy, Higher Education, Wellness
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Bélanger, Nathalie; Dulude, Eliane – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
Public education systems are often large, diverse, fragmented, and historically very hard to change. While previous reforms targeted primarily school staff, large-scale policies now include a broader audience including non-system organizations (e.g., knowledge brokering organizations) that may influence directly or indirectly policy…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Networks, Partnerships in Education, Universities
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Natalie Simper; Amanda Berry; Katarina Mårtensson; Nicoleta Maynard – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
This study follows a network-based Assessment Redesign Project at a Canadian university to investigate engagement and sustained implementation. The following strategies were employed in the project: mini-grants, embedded support, a community of practice, and social networks. Assessment facilitators worked in discipline clusters to achieve mutual…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Critical Thinking
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Mukuria, Valentine – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2022
This paper presents reflections on an international field trip for Indigenous students enrolled in an Education degree at a university in Australia. The field trip was co-developed with staff, students, and community partners of a Canadian university, as a pilot project to prepare Indigenous students for work in various cultural contexts. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, Field Trips, Program Implementation
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