Upcoming Events

Te Kotahitanga:
Improving Indigenous Education through Dialogic Pedagogy

April 27, 2005

Speaker: noted Maori Scholar Dr. Russell Bishop

The Vancouver School Board and the School Leadership Centre at UBC are pleased to invite you to attend a one day colloquium with noted Maori scholar Dr. Russell Bishop. Dr. Bishop and his colleagues at the University of Waikato in conjunction with the New Zealand Ministry of Education have developed a program of teacher education and pedagogy that has resulted in dramatic educational improvements for Maori students in mainstream school settings.

During this session, Dr. Bishop will present an overview of the Te Kotahitanga program, its underlying theory, its implementation, its research based approach, and its results. A panel of noted educators in Indigenous education from across the province will respond to Dr. Russell.

Session Details

The session will be hosted at the Vancouver School Board Office, 1580 West Broadway, Vancouver.

Colloquium check-in will begin at 8:30 am with the day formally getting underway at 9 am. Proceedings will be concluded at 3 pm.

The costs of the day are being jointly covered by the Vancouver School Board, the School Leadership Centre at UBC.

Pre-registration for the event is required. Registration will be limited to 100 participants. To register please forward your

• name
• e-mail address
• phone number
• work position
• school name (if applicable)
• and the school district (if applicable)

to the SLC at slc.edu@ubc.ca.

For more information, please contact Jeff Smith at the VSB (jtsmith@vsb.bc.ca) or Mark Edwards at the School Leadership Centre (604-827-5350).