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CCESC End of Year Messages from our Team

Message from the Director - Patty Douglas

Happy holidays to the growing CCESC community! We are delighted to share our first newsletter as we look back over a remarkable fall term and ahead to 2025. Highlights of the term are CCESC’s phenomenal capacity building initiatives, the Amplify Grant opportunity for faculty and staff, added student positions in research and outreach, and a disability justice graduate student group fostering community and access at Queen’s and initiating student-led community engaged research.

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Funding at CCESC

Funding Opportunities at CCESC

CCESC is committed to creating funding opportunities for the Queen’s and the surrounding community to passionately explore the amazing research they are doing related to community engagement and social change!

Since April 2024, CCESC has awarded:

  • Six Catalyst Grants of 15,000 dollars each
  • Six Amplify Grants totaling 12,400 dollars
  • Two Guest Speaker and Visiting Scholar grants totaling 1,055 so far!

Upcoming funding opportunities:

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Eco-justice research with children: Challenges and possibilities

Date

Thursday November 28, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Location

Education Library

A STEAM+ Brownbag Event: Participatory Action Research (PAR) with Children provides an opportunity for students to be given agency to take charge of their own research and learning.

Thursday, Nov. 28 
1-2 pm 
Education Library (Duncan McArthur Hall) or online

Presented by: 

Holly Crump (Queen's), Susan Jagger (Toronto Metropolitan University), Chris Carlton (Queen's), Ian Matheson (Queen's), and Nenad Radakovic (Queen's) 

In this brownbag, we will report on the preliminary findings of the qualitative study of grade 5 and 6 students’ engagement with PAR. We show how PAR can be used to address the principles of the eco-justice education. We identify three inextricably linked themes: motivations for engagement, decision-making in participatory research, and power dynamics and structure and show their significance for eco-justice education. Engaging students in PAR provides a means to enact justice in the classroom. Through this work, students are able to connect the fight for ecological justice with broader struggles for liberation. 

AEG Workshop 3: Thinking about Assessment & Evaluation Interview Questions

Date

Wednesday April 16, 2025
12:50 pm - 1:30 pm

Location

A342, Duncan McArthur Hall

This session will help prepare BEd teacher candidates for interview questions related to classroom assessment. 

This workshop is part of a 3-part series run by the Faculty of Education's Assessment and Evaluation Group. 

Poster for the series of three events

 

AEG Workshop 2: Thinking about AI & Assessment

Date

Wednesday January 22, 2025
12:50 pm - 1:30 pm

Location

Duncan McArthur Hall Auditorium (1st Floor)

This workshop will explore the intersection of AI and assessment, focusing on how AI can enhance and transform assessment practices in education. A Q&A session will follow the presentations. Presenter: Lydia Scholle-Cotton 

This workshop is part of a 3-part series run by the Faculty of Education's Assessment and Evaluation Group. 

A flyer for the AEG Group about A workship that will explore the intersection of AI and Assessment focusing on how AI can enhance and transform assessment practices in education. A Q&A will follow the presentations.

 

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