Contact Us
The Community Outreach Centre is located at the Queen's University Faculty of Education, in Duncan McArthur Hall, A342.
Dr. Lynda Colgan
Email: lynda.colgan@queensu.ca
Phone: 613 533 6000 ext. 75553
Dr. Lynda Colgan is committed to public education, particularly parent education about and child engagement in elementary mathematics. Her long-running popular press articles about the ubiquity and utility of mathematics led to the development of The Prime Radicals, a 52-episode children’s live-action mathematics television program that runs on educational television in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta and Ontario. The first 26 episodes of the The Prime Radicals were developed in conjunction with TVOKids and produced in association with TVOntario, Knowledge Network, SCN and ACCESS Alberta; and with the financial participation ($975,000) of the Canada Media Fund, The Shaw Rocket Fund, The Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation. Dr. Colgan developed all curriculum correlations and real-world mathematical contexts. She developed conceptually rich and age-appropriate mathematical activities and applications for each episode and for the ancillary website. Her popular press articles also led to the publication of Mathemagic! Number Tricks by Kids Can Press. Designated by the Junior Library Guild of the United States, and nominated as a 2012 Forest of Reading® Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award official selection (a project of the Ontario Library Association), in September 2011, Mathemagic was also sold to Tehniska Zalzozba Slovenjie for Slovenian rights. A book comprised of the popular press articles is currently being compiled for publication. These creative products complement her recent Administrative role as Community Outreach Coordinator for the Faculty of Education and her current empirical study of the impact of recent Mathematics Courses for Parents, public science education events, community partnership projects (e.g., dialogic reading courses for parents and Hanen Language Training for Kindergarten Educational Assistants) and arts-based mathematics teaching opportunities for BEd teacher candidates. The elementary mathematics resources developed and shared throughConnect-ME, her SSHRC and Imperial Oil Foundation funded study of virtual repositories to support early-career elementary mathematics teachers, have been widely field-tested and professionally published as modules available to teachers, parents, students and volunteer youth workers. Dr. Colgan is an active member of the Canadian mathematics education community, and supports Ontario mathematics educators and consultants through her quarterly articles in The Ontario Mathematics Gazette about recent trends and research in elementary mathematics education and her recently published Canadian edition of Helping Children Learn Mathematics (which was adopted by two universities prior to publication). See Lynda Colgan's Profile.
Dr. Nancy Dalgarno
Email: nancy.delgarno@queensu.ca
Phone: 613 533 6000 ext. 79324
Nancy is the Educational Researcher at the COC. She collaborates with MEd and PhD students to design and research community outreach projects in partnership with local community organizations; designs and conducts program evaluations of all COC initiatives and programs. This includes working with communities to prepare all ethics submissions; oversees the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from the community outreach educational programs; researches and identifies potential grant opportunities for the COC to expand its mission and become self-sustaining; and, prepares and disseminates technical reports, proposals for conference presentations and scholarly papers for publication.
Dr. Andrea Martin
Email: martina@queensu.ca
Phone: 613 533 6000 ext. 79324
Andrea brings to the team her data-collection and analysis techniques from her supported PhD research completed in 2009. A focal point of her research was an intensive, fine-grained examination of collaborative processes between the university and schools. She is co-investigator on a 2010 SSHRC Standard Research Grant entitled, Improving the quality of practicum learning: Case studies of four Canadian teacher education programs. She is co-author of a textbook entitled Inclusive Classrooms in Ontario Schools, published by Pearson Education Canada. Andrea has considerable experience of practicum supervision and has initiated a series of small-scale grants exploring the views of associate teachers and teacher candidates concerning the quality of practicum experience, all of which would assist in the aspect of this research that focuses on BEd candidates’ experiences in community-based placements.