jeewan chanicka is Waterloo District School Board new Director of Education
At the heart of what we need for the 22nd century is to foster creativity, innovation, and design thinking,’ says new director
‘At the heart of what we need for the 22nd century is to foster creativity, innovation, and design thinking,’ says new director The newly-appointed Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) director of education believes the school board can tap into the thriving local tech centre to bring the education system into the 22nd century. jeewan chanicka, who recently took the baton from John Bryant,…
This work is complex and interconnected. Some of us have a lot of privilege and some less. 1) There is the burden of the oppressed – they face oppression; they have to convince ppl it is occurring, worry about their (the oppressors) emotions, find the solutions – it is hard when you are dealing with trauma to have to think…
The deepest and most profound learning I’ve had from doing anti-oppression work – was the work that I needed to heal and change myself. We often don’t understand the ways we are individually complicit in causing harm to students and in spite of understanding that the “system” doesn’t work for all students – we still uphold the structures that cause…