Faculty of Education News Archive
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Faculty of Education
Students’ progress biggest reward to resource teachers
February 14, 2018 —
For Jennifer Soldier, a Sagkeeng First Nation high-school instructor, resource-teacher training is essential to improving the lives of students who need help the most.
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Faculty of Education
Saving Indigenous languages
January 26, 2018 —
Amid the buzz of revelry recognizing the University of Manitoba's two new Canada Research Chair (CRC) appointments, Dr. Frank Deer struck a somber note, underlining the urgency of his work as CRC in Indigenous education.
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Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management
2018 MPHETE Conference Resources
January 22, 2018 —
2018 MPHETE Conference Resources
![2018 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients: Paul Soubry, Dr. Lorrie Kirshenbaum, Tina Jones, Jan Lederman and Dr. Shayne Reitmeier](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ALM-00-126-DAA-UMT-ITOW1200x800_all_FNL03-150x150.jpg)
Building us up: The 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients
January 12, 2018 —
The recipients of this year’s Distinguished Alumni Awards are accomplished community builders and leaders
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Faculty of Education
Ready for uncertainty
January 8, 2018 —
Growing up best friends with Miss Popular in elementary school, a young Lee Airton learned a defining lesson that would guide her career path as an academic focused on making schools welcoming places for gender and sexual diversity.
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Faculty of Education
Welcoming gender diversity
January 3, 2018 —
The 2018 Ed Talk Series kicks off Jan. 8, with Dr. Lee Airton, assistant professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies in Education at Queen's University
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Indigenous
Top Indigenous stories of 2017
December 21, 2017 —
It was another tremendous year of accomplishments in 2017 at the University of Manitoba, including many inspiring initiatives and events that celebrate the successes of the U of M Indigenous community and advance Indigenous achievement
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Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management
CONFERENCE PAGE: 2018 MPHETE Student Leadership Conference
December 7, 2017 —
The 4th annual MPHETE Student Leadership Conference, "Affirming Identities" will focus on diversity and inclusion within physical education.
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Indigenous
Teaching the next generation
December 7, 2017 —
"I just want to be there for them, because these young people are giving me back something that was taken away from me when I was in Residential Schools.”
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Faculty of Arts
Two decades of Harry Potter
December 7, 2017 —
There are few people who were children in the late 1990s and early 2000s who grew up without Harry Potter. A new panel has explored this tradition of two decades.