| Friday May 1, 2026 |
| 10:00 am |
Jocelyn Procopio Culturally Relevant Goal setting in Mathematics Education: Bridging Theory and Practice |
| 10:00 am |
Katherine Bastowros Psychoeducation in Practice: Strengthening Culturally Responsive Praxis Among aides in Egyptian International Schools |
| 10:00 am |
Melanie McCready Universal Growth: Making L&D a Strategic Priority |
| 10:00 am |
Susan Hunter Reconciliation is Like Medicine: Advancing Indigenous Initiatives at a Small Northern Canadian College |
| 1:00 pm |
Arjun Balasingham DEI training for military officers |
| 1:00 pm |
Ian Sharp The Implementation of a Service-Learning Program for grade 6-8 Students at Praxis Christian School |
| 1:00 pm |
Mischa Kaplan Embedding Trauma-Informed Leadership in Volunteer-Based Humanitarian Organizations: A Strategic Organizational Change Framework |
| 1:00 pm |
Shayla Hill Reframing STEM Education Through Indigenous Knowledge: An I-STEAM Framework for Environmental Education in Ontario |
| 1:00 pm |
Katie Maracle Decolonizing Onboarding: Reclaiming Leadership Pathways for Onkwehonwe Women
(alternate date and time if needed: May 5 at 4pm) |
| 4:00 pm |
Meagan Lundgren Cultivating Calm: Enhancing Staff Capacity to Mitigate the Impact of Dysregulation in Inclusive Classrooms |
| 4:00 pm |
Ntibinyane Alvin Ntibinyane Epistemic Disobedience in Journalism Education: Decolonial Interrogations of the Canadian Press Stylebook |
| 7:00 pm |
Don Moore Equity-Informed Strategies for Student Retention and Persistence in Rural
Alberta Colleges |
| 7:00 pm |
Jeff Phillips Subtle Yet Radical: Shifts to Create a Greater Sense of Belonging in International Schools |
| 7:00 pm |
Jennifer Shu Fong Low Left Behind at the Finish Line: Reclaiming Takiwātanga (“In Their Own Time and Space”) in Neurodivergent Transitions |
| 7:00 pm |
Marcella Cooper Improving Collective Teacher Efficacy to Advance Data-Informed Equity |
| 7:00 pm |
Roberta Tizzard Transforming Pipelines into Pathways: Forging Ahead by Centering the Human and Achieving Critical, Comprehensive Internationalization within Canadian Higher Education Institutions |
| Saturday May 2, 2026 |
| 1:00 pm |
Nicole Cross Designing for Development: Creating an Integrated Student Service Model to Foster Self-Efficacy |
| 1:00 pm |
Sacha Koumbias I Think We Can, I Think We Can, I Think We Can—Collective Efficacy for Literacy Achievement for all Students at Lancaster Middle School |
| 7:00 pm |
Dima Povalyaev One Boy at a Time: A Change Leadership Approach to Enhancing
Subjective Student Wellness in a Canadian Independent Boys’ School |
| 7:00 pm |
Michael Zinn Navigating the Parity Paradox: A Two-Eyed Seeing Approach to Transforming Decolonial Policy and Professional Practice in Ontario Adult Education |
| Sunday May 3, 2026 |
| 10:00 am |
Camille Prince Reframing Mathematics as Liberatory |
| 1:00 pm |
Isaac Nyamekye Dismantling the Architecture of Silence: A Dialogic Approach to Co-Creating an Equitable Polytechnic |
| 1:00 pm |
Melissa Goodchild Organizational Change to Encourage Collaboration: Resolving Harmonic Dissonance in Music Education |
| Monday May 4, 2026 |
| 10:00 am |
Del Plummer Using Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion as a Framework to Address Systemic Racism Training at the Aspiring Acme Police Service |
| 10:00 am |
Jennifer Stark Rethinking Responsibility: Exploring Inadequate Teaching Capacity for Neurodivergent Learners |
| 10:00 am |
Kim Christianson Leading an Empowering Change: Cultivating Agile Culture to Transform National Leadership |
| 10:00 am |
Maria Lemieux Disentangling the Constraints: A Critical Policy Analysis of Ontario’s
Special Education Policy |
| 1:00 pm |
Alix Voz Reframing the Public Art Gallery: Embedding the Gallery in Public Health
Strategy |
| 1:00 pm |
Aroma Pannu A Critical Analysis of Ontario's Principal Qualification Program: Does it Prepare Ontario Principals to Lead with an Equity and Social Justice Mindset? |
| 1:00 pm |
David Desantis Unlocking Potential: Empowering Systems to Realize the Reaching Every Reader Vision |
| 1:00 pm |
Patrick Busby From Margins to Mainstream: Implementing Personalized Alternative Education Within Secondary Schools |
| 4:00 pm |
R. Craig Smith Bridging Voice and Power: Advancing Educator Well-Being Through Informed Advocacy in the Canadian North |
| 7:00 pm |
Jessie Fraser Unsettling Settler Institutions: Critical Collaboration in Community
Education |
| 7:00 pm |
Michaela Dance From Sorting to Supporting: Assessment for Learning in Grade 9 De-Streamed Math |
| Tuesday May 5, 2026 |
| 10:00 am |
Christie Robertson Leading at the Crossroads: Navigating Economic Accountability and Learner-centredness in Higher Educational Quality Frameworks |
| 1:00 pm |
Laura McDonald Parity of Esteem for Technical and Vocation Education and Training at a Polytechnic University |
| 1:00 pm |
Michel Shah Move Together: Rewiring and Institutionalizing Collaborative Governance Architecture for Equity in Hierarchical Systems |
| 1:00 pm |
Sasha A. Abunnadi Tang Examining Coloniality in British Columbia Grades 6–8 Social Studies Curricular Documents |
| 4:00 pm |
Heather Warkentin What is a Medical Physicist? Creating Space for Professional
Identity Formation in a Medical Physics Residency Training Program |
| 4:00 pm |
Katie Maracle Decolonizing Onboarding: Reclaiming Leadership Pathways for Onkwehonwe Women (alternate date and time) |
| 4:00 pm |
Sarah Enright Cultivating Leadership: Montessori Principles not Principals |
| Wednesday May 6, 2026 |
| 10:00 am |
Carolina Miranda Two Wings, One Future: Moving Towards Systemic Integrity with the Soaring Compass of Reconciliation and Intercultural Healing |
| 10:00 am |
Dana MacLeod Designing Organizational Coherence: Leadership-Enabled Integration in a Sociodigital Context |
| 10:00 am |
Marisa Battaglia TBC: Human First, Teacher Second: Responding to Teacher Mental Health and Well-Being in an Evolving Educational Structure |
| 10:00 am |
Nicole Abotossaway The Anishinabek Eighth Fire Prophecy in the Academy: Decolonial Indigenization to improve conditions for Indigenous faculty in a Historic
Regional Treaty Area |
| 4:00 pm |
Carina Park Beyond NTIP: Elevating New Secondary Teacher Support in an Ontario School District |
| 7:00 pm |
Cherie Borden A Critical Policy Analysis of School Counselling within One Canadian Province. |
| Thursday May 7, 2026 |
| 10:00 am |
Alicia Ralph Dreams Delayed or Denied? An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis of Autism, Race, and Special Education in Ontario |
| 10:00 am |
Gabriela T. Selvarajah Operation Re:Connect: (Re)imagining Collegiality in Community Colleges in an Era of Change |
| 1:00 pm |
Patricia Rowan Higher Education Challenge: Increasing Retention and Decreasing
Attrition in a First-term College Dental Assisting Program |
| 4:00 pm |
Andrea Delarosbil Building Bridges Between Systems |
| Friday May 8, 2026 |
| 10:00 am |
Aimmie Kellar From Silos to Synergy: Leveraging Teacher Middle Leadership for
Organizational Alignment |
| 10:00 am |
Amber Bishop Who Is Deemed “Qualified”? Certification, Bureaucracy, and the
Exclusion of Internationally Trained Educators in an Atlantic Province: A Social Justice Leadership Approach to Workforce Sustainability and Educational Equity |
| 10:00 am |
Jennifer Baird Enrichment by Design: Creating Equitable Access to Community-Based Arts Education and Enrichment Opportunities for School-Aged Learners in an Urban Region of Canada |
| 4:00 pm |
Elana Cooperberg Making Student Success Everyone’s Work: A Systems Change
Approach to First-Semester Experience in a Quebec College |
| 7:00 pm |
Lori Koebel Leading for Literacy: Building Instructional Capacity to Support Grade 10 Male Students on the OSSLT |
| 7:00 pm |
Matthew Lawson Wellbeing Ex Nihilo: A Systems Approach to Supporting Student Wellbeing Within an International Baccalaureate World School |
| Saturday May 9, 2026 |
| 10:00 am |
Allison Groen Dressing Down the Dress Code: A Feminist Critical Policy Analysis of School Attire Regulations |
| 10:00 am |
Ayobami Ogunlana Leveraging Non-traditional Program Designs to Address Evolving Workforce Training Demands |
| 10:00 am |
Samia Javed Voices from the Inside Out: Invisible Realities of Early Childhood Educator Leadership in Ontario’s Full-Day Kindergarten |
| 1:00 pm |
Lisa Ogilvie First, Do No Harm: Advancing a Systemic Framework for Learner Flourishing in Undergraduate Medical Education |
| 1:00 pm |
Nimarta Kaur Pattar Anti-oppressive and Culturally Responsive Leadership: A Critical Policy Analysis of Leadership Development Strategies in Ontario and British Columbia |
| 1:00 pm |
Robin Clarke Building Pathways to Justice: An Equity-Centred Approach to Addressing Anti-Black Racism |
| 4:00 pm |
Dwayne Taylor New Approaches to Conflicts |
| 4:00 pm |
Katrina O'Connor Un/Masking: Engendering a Neuro-Inclusive School Model for
Female Learners |
| 4:00 pm |
Sheryl Gibbs Reimagining Learner-Centredness: Including the Learner |
| Monday May 11, 2026 |
| 10:00 am |
Lindsay Plaisant Commitments into Action: Translating Psychological Health and Safety While Leading from the Middle |
| 10:00 am |
Ruvimbo Sakutukwa Illusion or Inclusion? A Critical Analysis of Equity-Based
Admission Policies in Canadian Higher Education |
| 1:00 pm |
Chuks Imahiagbe Opening Doors, Building Bridges: Fostering Belonging for Black Students in an Ontario High School |
| 1:00 pm |
Morgan Gauthier Digging in: Exploring climate change leadership through authentic community engagement |
| 7:00 pm |
Cheyenne Labelle The Role of Friendship Centres in Addressing Residential School Legacies |
| 7:00 pm |
Daniela Dabrowski Leading Cultural Renewal in Catholic Secondary Education: Reclaiming Identity and Belonging in a Diverse School Context |
| 7:00 pm |
Phillip Adams Echoes in the Office: Improving School Administrator Capacity to
Receive and Act on Parent Feedback |
| Tuesday May 12, 2026 |
| 1:00 pm |
Kathryn Banman Performing Inclusion: A Critical Analysis of Academic Accommodation Policies at Three Southwestern Ontario Universities |
| 4:00 pm |
Jacqueline Mallais Preparing the Road for Organizational Change: Enhancing Teacher Engagement to Build Professional Community |
| 7:00 pm |
Rosa Fazio From Relational Connection to Intentional Collaboration: Scaling Upward to Collective Action for Equity-Centred Change |
| Wednesday May 13, 2026 |
| 10:00 am |
Cherylynne McKee Adapting for the Future While Honouring the Past: Framing Founding Philosophies through Disability Studies in Education |
| 10:00 am |
Sarah Scott Demmin Applying an Anti-Racist Approach to Public Health Education |
| 1:00 pm |
Caitlin Morris Leading Literacy Online: Teacher Self-Efficacy in Fully Virtual Learning Environments |
| 1:00 pm |
Cynthia McCarthy Resilience in Teacher Candidates Through Indigenous Ways of
Knowing: A Relational Approach to Change for the Teacher Education Ecosystem |
| 4:00 pm |
Carol Soares Intersectional Erasure: Mental Health Policy, Black Girls' Resurgence,
and the Reclamation of Identity, Joy, and Justice |
| Thursday May 14, 2026 |
| 10:00 am |
Chelsea Gomes Improving the IEP Implementation Process to Support Student
Success in Tanzania |
| 1:00 pm |
Amanda Jean Davison Effective Integration of Special Needs Learners into the Mathematics Classrooms: Strategies and Outcomes |
| 7:00 pm |
Nicole Bonnie Reframing "Good Governance": Designing Competency-Based Pathways for Boards Addressing Structural Disparities |
