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Presenting Oliver Jeffers!
The Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable, a group dedicated to supporting the children’s literature community of Vancouver is proud to host renowned picture book artist Oliver Jeffers at the University Golf Club on Saturday, February 23, 2013. Please click on the poster to enlarge, click here to register for this event!
Reducing math anxiety in female teachers found to raise girls’ math scores
“An interesting discussion paper suggests that for female students in primary school, the gender of a teacher may matter when it comes to learning math. Women math teachers with a strong background in the subject led to approximately a 3 per cent increase in math scores for girls.”
Read the rest of the article by SIMONA CHIOSE in The Globe and Mail
Education Faculty Animal Charities 2nd hand book sale Wednesday, January 23rd
50 cents for paperback and $1.00 for hard covers!
Maurice Sendak Symposium at UBC March 1
The Symposium on Maurice Sendak is on Friday, March 1st, 2013 in the Dodson Room at the Barber Learning Centre from 3:30-6:30 pm. It’s free. Refreshments. All welcome. Register for the event here: http://mauricesendaksymposium.eventbrite.com
Call for Presentations: Care and Healing: February 8th, 2013
UBC Research Commons invites you to submit your proposals for 5 minute presentations for the following upcoming FIRE Talk:
Care and Healing: February 8th, 2013
Submit proposals by: January 31, 2013, online submission form here
Join the discussion: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3920
Can we only heal individuals or is possible to heal entire cultures? Are scientific and holistic approaches to care and healing necessarily mutually exclusive? Is preventive always better than restorative care? As graduate students, many of us are involved in care and healing, and we can think about these terms in many different ways. Present your ideas, research or opinions at the first FIRE Talk of 2013!