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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!
Future teachers can now apply for new scholarships
B.C. secondary students who wish to become teachers can now apply for one of twenty $5,000 Pathway to Teacher Education scholarships. Scholarship winners will be awarded a $5,000 voucher to redeem upon entrance to one of B.C.’s faculty of education programs.
Click here to read the B.C. Ministry of Education News Release
Small Acts of Kindness Can Make a Big Difference in Bullying
A research study conducted by a professor in UBC’s Faculty of Education in collaboration with UC-Riverside has found that when children engage in small acts of kindness they experience a surge in happiness, and this may help to decrease bullying.
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to read the Vancouver Sun article, written by The Canadian Press.
B.C.’s Grade 4 students among world’s top readers
British Columbia’s fourth-grade students rank among the world’s top readers at their grade level and had the highest average score in Canada, according to a new international report.