Early Childhood Symposium 2020 (February 11 & 12, 2020) will feature two McGill Education speakers: Dr. Sheryl Smith-Gilman will give the Opening Plenary as Keynote Speaker and Dr. Tina Montreuil will lead the workshop "Healthy Minds, Healthy Schools & Resilience Building in Children: Preliminary Outcomes". The symposium will be held at Palace Centre de Congrès (1717 Boul le Corbusier, Laval, Québec, H7S 2K7).

McGill's Faculty of Education reminds all students, staff, alumni, and friends that education is a human right, a public good and a public responsibility.

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed January 24 as International Day of Education, in celebration of the role of education for peace and development.

Without inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong opportunities for all, countries will not succeed in achieving gender equality and breaking the cycle of poverty that is leaving millions of children, youth and adults behind.

Course Lecturer for McGill's Department of Integrated Studies, Dr. Sabrina Jafralie, gave her take on the proposed educational reform that would remove the religious culture component from the provincial school curriculum, in favour of other ethics course content exploring 21st Century themes. Dr. Jafralie, who also is a Head Teacher at Westmount High School, told CT News that removing religious culture would be a mistake as "we want our students to understand each other and what makes us click".

McGill Department of Integrated Studies in Education Doctoral Student, Alisan Funk, travelled to Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) as McGill Education's participant in the 2019 Global Alliance in Education Research seminar. Alisan is pursuing her thesis in the area of circus education: https://www.mcgill.ca/x/Zbu  (Video is courtesy of Monash University, McGill's partner in the Global Alliance in Education Research.)

Maria Ezcurra, founder of the McGill Art Hive Initiative and Art Instructor, was presented Wednesday with the Visual Arts Diversity Award for 2019 by the Conseil des arts de Montréal. The award recognizes originality and diversity in the Montreal visual arts scene. Maria creates a committed art that evokes the memory, the gender, the feminine condition, the history, the culture, the migration and social norms.

On November 6, 2019, McGill Education's Dr. Claudia Mitchell was honoured by the Government of Quebec, having been awarded the Prix du Quebec, specifically the Léon-Gérin Prize, for her exemplary research career in the humanities and social sciences. A Distinguished James McGill Professor, Dr. Mitchell is the Director of the Institute for Human Development and Well-Being, Founder of the Participatory Cultures Lab, and a faculty member of McGill's Department of Integrated Studies in Education.