Presenters
Tami Brewster is a passionate educator, Apple Teacher, and Apple Distinguished Educator from Montreal. Tami works to develop a learning environment to best meet the varied needs of learners. She strives to make learning interesting, attainable, and enjoyable for students. Feeling strongly about the importance of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the classroom, she believes that as a teacher she needs to model taking risks and learning from experiences.
Jason Trinh is the coordinator of global competencies and STEM/ICT for the Toronto District School Board in Ontario, Canada. In this role, he supports digital learning across the district through the design and delivery of professional learning resources and coaching support. An award-winning educator, he is the recipient of the Premier's Award for Teaching Excellence and the ISTE Digital Equity Award, and was named to the ISTE 20 to Watch list. Trinh specializes in digital media creation to support educators in transforming their teaching practice. As an active participant in his professional learning networks, he contributes to the Google Innovator, Google Trainer, Apple Distinguished Educator and ISTE Community Leader communities. He shares his passion for creativity, technology and diversity/equity/inclusion as a workshop facilitator, digital creator and speaker across North America.
Session description
We will share our story and experiences to highlight the importance of inclusion and guide participants to define or redefine what inclusion looks like, sounds like and feels like in a digitally connected world. We'll also explore how we can begin to design learning by leveraging educational technology with everyone in mind.
Purpose & objective
This session provides participants the opportunity to explore and discover the various layers of inclusion. Creating inclusive spaces starts with a critical look at who we are as educators. Through unpacking our own identity, we gain an understanding of our relationship with respect to others.
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Outline
Creating a common understanding of Inclusion (5 min)
- co-creation of a definition of inclusion
Who is in your learning space (20 min)
- creation of identity maps
- creating a common vocabulary on equity terminology
Inclusion in all learning spaces (15 min)
- environment as the third teacher discussion
Inclusive spaces are dynamic space (10 min)
- culturally responsive pedagogy framework unpacked
Consolidation (10 min)
- making our commitment to inclusion
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Supporting research
https://www.adl.org/resources/glossary-term/education-glossary-terms
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18TSPDIBG6R5VTs6RtZKi8dvP-LqK1uMV/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S2JePKtamFIkjTL6NgVGFdmJhKHoVS04/view
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