Classrooms are richer, more vibrant spaces when all students are included in teaching and learning. In this webinar we will demonstrate how to use students’ strengths to celebrate and include learners of all abilities, engage students with different learning styles, and to support those learning English for the first time. Diversity enriches us all! The authors of Student Diversity will delve into the book and offer strategies and structures to address the wide variety of challenges in today’s classrooms, and help students become lifelong, passionate, inquisitive readers, writers, and thinkers.
Faye Brownlie has been a classroom teacher, a learning resource teacher, a district consultant, and a university lecturer, and now works in literacy and learning staff development in British Columbia, on a national level, and internationally. The...
Catherine Feniak is known for her work in literacy, assessment, and inclusion. She has taught students in diverse classrooms in grades K–10 in rural and urban British Columbia schools, as well as in Melbourne, Australia. In her role as a school...
Leyton Schnellert is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia and the Eleanor Rix Professor of Rural Teacher Education. He supports teachers as they inquire into responsive, meaningful, and engaging learning...