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It's an exciting time for women in sports: the Northern Super League just kicked off in Canada, the Professional Women's Hockey League is expanding and the thriving WNBA posted its highest attendance in 22 seasons.
Kiana Kishiyama remembers feeling scared when, at the start of her first undergraduate class in beginner’s Mandarin, her teacher looked at her and said, “You need to speak to me after class.”
“And I’m like, what, I’m in trouble already?”
It turned out that the teacher believed that Kishiyama, who was adopted from China by a Canadian couple, was just being modest about her language skills.
We are proud to announce that Dr. Nanre Nafziger, DISE, is a 2025 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research topic is Contestations for Nigerian History Education in Primary and Secondary Schools: from Colonialism to Neocolonialism. This year, the selection committee, comprised of leading scholars in education research, selected 25 fellows from an extremely competitive pool of 270 education scholars.
The Faculty of Education is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Pengfei Zhao, from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE), as the Academic Director for Global Engagement.
Media personality and suburban City Councillor Mike Cohen featured the book "Dare to Win" in his Meet Your Local Authors series. KPE Chair Dr. Gordon Bloom and professional basketball coach and KPE alumna, Chantal Vallée, were interviewed in this segment for the Eleanor London Library.
Valedictorian Helena Silen, part of the inaugural cohort of the B.A. (Ed.) Education in a Global Contexts program, will be representing the Faculty of Education’s Class of 2025 at Convocation on May 29th at 3:00 PM.
“I’ve learned so much from the students, faculty, and staff at McGill, and I am proud of the values of life-long learning, justice, and care for which we continue to strive. It’s an honour to be able to offer my warmest congratulations to my peers, who I am certain will go on to do excellent work in the classroom, graduate studies, and beyond.”
Seven McGill University researchers have been awarded more than $268,000 in Connection Grants by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
DISE Professors Philip S. S. Howard (Principal Investigator) and Nanre Nafziger (Co-investigator) and Faculty of Education Liaison Librarian, Sharon Rankin (Co-investigator) and Co-investigators, Professors Tya Collins and Lerona Dana Lewis of the University of Ottawa, have received a grant from the Harvard Graduate School of Education Black Teacher Archive program.
University of Manitoba Bachelor of Arts in Psychology graduate Rachel Cluett (BA’24) is one of 20 Canadians selected to join the fifth cohort of McCall MacBain Scholars at McGill University. Recipients were chosen based on exceptional character, community engagement, leadership potential, entrepreneurial spirit, academic strength, and intellectual curiosity.
Rachel will pursue a Master of Arts in School/Applied Child Psychology at McGill.
Dr. Mindy R. Carter, Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE), was recently awarded the 2025 AERA Outstanding Achievement in Arts and Learning Award for her dedication to research, teaching and service in arts education.
McGill University, through the Office of the Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic), has conferred important internal recognition awards to three Faculty of Education professors in celebration of their outstanding scholarship and research excellence.
Daniel Fortin-Guichard, Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, was invited to the Temps d'Arrêt podcast hosted by Coach Frank (François Rodrigue), an Assistant Professor at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, discussing cognitive biases that selectors may have when identifying and selecting athletes (e.g., at the NHL draft).
Dr. Tina Montreuil, a researcher at the Educational and Counselling Psychology Department (Associate Member of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences), has been awarded the prestigious FRQS Chercheur Boursier Junior 2 award this past April 2025.
Canada in general, and Montreal specifically, have been facing a drug toxicity and fatal overdose crisis for nearly a decade. While integrated systems of interventions are necessary to address drug-related harms, the use of naloxone has been a key strategy to reduce the acute effect of opioid-involved deaths. Currently, McGill does not offer naloxone trainings to the campus community, limiting students’ ability to assist in the event of an overdose.
The Kaushalam program, a collaborative initiative between the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) Uttarakhand and the Udyam Learning Foundation, aims to cultivate 21st-century life skills and an entrepreneurial mindset among students in Uttarakhand. A comprehensive study conducted during the 2024–25 academic year assessed the program's impact on Grade 9 students across seven districts.
