• The World Indigenous Research Alliance (WIRA): Mediating and Mobilizing Indigenous Peoples’ Educational Knowledge and Aspirations 

  Whitinui, Paul; McIvor, Onowa; Robertson, Boni; Morcom, Lindsay; Cashman, Kimo; Arbon, Veronica (Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015)

  There is an Indigenous resurgence in education occurring globally. For more than a century Euro-western approaches have controlled the provision and quality of education to, and for Indigenous peoples. The World Indigenous ...
• How teachers’ experience, attitudes, and self-efficacy concerning technology influence its use in the classroom 

  Salyzyn, Brandon (2018-04-24)

  Technology is a driving force behind change across multiple aspects of society and education is no exception. How teachers plan, instruct, and assess in the classroom are all undergoing drastic and significant changes due ...
• Life and death of Canada’s founding languages (and not the two you think) 

  Smith, Malinda S.; McIvor, Onowa (TRANSFORMING THE ACADEMY INDIGENOUS EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGES AND RELATIONS, 2013)
• Differentiation in the Inclusive K-9 School 

  Everitt-Dallinger, Melissa (2018-04-23)

  The purpose of this paper is to answer the question - how are teachers adapting their teaching in inclusive classrooms? A review of current research studies will inform the answer. Given the diverse learning needs in today’s ...
• An Exploration of the Effects of Mentor-Apprentice Programs on Mentors' and Apprentices' Wellbeing 

  Jenni, Barbara; Anisman, Adar; McIvor, Onowa; Jacobs, Peter (International Journal of Indigenous Health, 2017)

  Increasingly, adult Indigenous language learners are being identified as the “missing generation” of learners who hold great potential to contribute to the revival of Indigenous languages by acting as the middle ground ...
• Back to the Future: Recreating Natural Indigenous Language Learning Environments Through Language Nest Early Childhood Immersion Programs 

  McIvor, Onowa; Parker, Aliana (The International Journal of Holistic Early Learning and Development, 2016)

  For a language to have a stable future, children need to be learning it. Immersion for young children is the best method for rapid language regeneration as it can produce new proficient speakers within a few years. Although ...
• Indigenous Communities and Community-Engaged Research: Opportunities and Challenges 

  McGregor, Catherine; McIvor, Onowa; Rosborough, Patricia (Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Learning, 2016)

  As the inaugural issue of The Engaged Scholar Journal made apparent, while there is significant evidence that community-engaged scholarship has reached a critical mass in Canadian institutions, many important junctures ...
• Place-Based Education: Improving Learning While Connecting Students to Community and Environment 

  Pasiechnyk, Corissa (2018-04-19)

  Place-based education is emerging as a progressive response to the standardized, decontextualized curricula that has historically and contemporarily characterized our education system. With foundations in environmental ...
• A review of students’ perceptions, engagement, and academic achievement in the flipped classroom 

  Bedi, Julie (2018-04-19)

  The flipped classroom is a pedagogical model designed to focus on a student-centered teaching technique that reverses the traditional educational arrangement. Short video lectures are viewed by students at home before the ...
• Grouping students by ability: Is there a difference in academic achievement? 

  Baker, Nicole (2018-04-19)

  Upon the renewal of international competition based on standardized assessments, grouping students by ability has been reintroduced into the education system. In this paper, I review the literature on grouping students and ...
• Scaffolding Reading Comprehension to Deepen Understanding of Text 

  Lovsund, Cherie (2018-04-18)

  Students are required to process large amounts of text, and they must be prepared to understand and evaluate text to gain meaning about the world around them. Reading comprehension is an essential component of the reading ...
• The Inclusion of LGBTQ Youth in Catholic Schools: Opportunities to facilitate their well-being 

  Gartner, Carmen (2018-04-16)

  Students who may or may not openly identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, or queer (LGBTQ) face institutionalized heterosexism and victimization in schools. These experiences can be amplified for those students ...
• Reading Engagement Through Young Adult Literature In the Junior High Classroom 

  Winch, Erin (2018-04-16)

  Motivating students to read print text for sustained periods of time is becoming increasingly difficult in the secondary classroom. Therefore, it is imperative that secondary English language arts teachers find ways to ...
• Effective Leadership Promoting Effective Change in Schools 

  El Cid, Caroline (2018-04-12)

  In order for K-12 schools to operate successfully, the structure of leadership is vital in facilitating change that will ultimately foster positive growth in teaching and learning. With curriculum changes, innovative ...
• A review of underlying factors in math anxieties 

  MacKinnon, Christina (2018-04-12)

  Abstract Math anxiety (MA) has been defined as a fear of math or an emotional negative feeling towards mathematical tasks and has been argued to have a significant impact on students’ mathematics learning, performance, ...
• Teacher-Initiated Communication with Parents: Preferred Types and Channels to Facilitate School-Home Relations and Enhance Student Performance and Motivation 

  El Cid, Pascal (2018-04-11)

  Parent-teacher communication involves teachers relating student academic- and school- information to students and parents through various means, including in-person dialogue, emails, and report cards. The literature on ...
• "It's like 'Strong is the New Skinny,' but you can't be too strong": Negotiating and decoding the healthy and fit female body online 

  Warder, Sarah (2018-04-10)

  Research has explored the increasing muscularity of male bodies in popular media, the cultural ideal of masculinity, and its effect on body dissatisfaction in young men, but similar research with young women nearly always ...
• Formative Assessment in Elementary School: Promoting Self-Regulated Learning, Intrinsic Motivation, and Self-Efficacy 

  Keenan, Patricia (2018-04-09)

  Formative assessment is an approach for evaluating student progress and achievement that has become a widely used practice in elementary classrooms. It invites student input in every aspect of the learning process, and is ...
• A program evaluation of applications of Mathematics 10 in British Columbia public schools 

  McAskill, Donald Bruce (2018-02-22)

  This is an outcomes based program evaluation which used a nonequivalent control-group design to determine the effectiveness of the implementation of Applications of Mathematics 10 in British Columbia public schools. The ...
• Exploring the strategic potential of roles for collaboration 

  Starcheski, Shayla (2018-01-30)

  Collaboration is an important yet difficult skill for learners in the 21st century. Recent research has examined how supports, such as group scripts and roles, can help learners collaborate effectively. However, little is ...

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