Professor Ratna Ghosh, of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, received the Order of Montreal at the city's annual ceremony yesterday.

Aziz Choudry, of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, and Salim Vally, co-editor with Dr. Choudry of the recent book Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements: History's Schools, joined Dr. Will Brehm this week as guests on FreshEd Podcast with Will Brehm. Please click here to listen to the podcast, "Radical histories and social movements".
Jeanne Sauvé Foundation Fellow Semuhi Sinanoglu prepared a brief report for the foundation's website, summarizing a recent leadership encounter with Aziz Choudry of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education.
Carolyn E. Turner has been named as the winner of the 2018 Cambridge English Language Assessment/ILTA Distinguished Achievement Award.
Carolyn Turner completed her PhD in Second Language Education at McGill University in 1988 with a dissertation on the factor structure of cloze test performance in francophone university level students. She went on to work as Assistant then Associate Professor at McGill's Department of Integrated Studies in Education.

Vanessa Smith, Internships and Student Affairs Officer with our Office of Internships and Student Affairs (ISA), has been nominated for McGill's Dean of Students Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advising.

Allison Gonsalves and Dawn Wiseman, of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, presented their Teaching Science in Homework Zone pilot project at two Montreal-area schools this year. These workshops, presented to elementary school students in an after-school setting, have the goal of showing science-based materials in an engaging and accessible fashion. The project recruited 14 volunteer students from Science Education with DISE and from the Faculty of Science to work together and design three workshops, each about 45 minutes in length.

Dr. Ratna Ghosh, of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, will be named an Honorary Fellow of The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). The decision was announced at the 2018 Annual Meeting of CIES, held this week in Mexico City. The award will be conferred at next year’s conference.

Students and educators in the new B.Ed. program offered by the Faculty of Education in Listuguj.
by Katie Mullen [view original article on McGill Giving website]
Kativik Ilisarniliriniq (Kativik School Board) recently posted an interview with Ulaayu Pilurtuut, who received a B.Ed for Certified Teachers in December 2017 through the Teacher Training program offered by Kativik Ilisarniliriniq in conjunction with our Office of First Nations and Inuit Education
Preventing Extremism through Educational Research (PEER), a research team headed by Professor Ratna Ghosh of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE), have launched a new website at www.mcgill.ca/peer.