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The First Western Canadian Conference on American Sign Language ( ASL ) and English Bilingual Education October 17 , 2014 Faculty of Education , University of Regina , Ed 228 Registration 8:30 - 9:00 Reception 4:30
Conference Theme : “ The State of the Art in Language and Literacy Education for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students ”

R e c o g n i t i o n o f A c h i e v e m e n t

Assistant Professor Sean Lessard successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in December 2013 at the University of Alberta . Sean ’ s supervisor , Dr . Jean Clandinin , indicated that Sean passed without revisions and that it was a privilege to be part of his significant achievement .
( Left to Right ) Sessional Instructor , Tana Burrows ( Supervisor — Jennifer Tupper ); former YNTEP colleague , Lori Eastmure ( Supervisor — Carol Schick ); and former Secondment , Shannon Kell ( Funk ) ( Supervisor — Nick Forsberg ) received their Doctor of Philosophy degrees .
( Left to Right ) Bac Secondment faculty member , Claire St . Cyr-Power ( Supervisor — Laurie Carlson Berg ) and Sessional Instructor , Krista Baliko ( Supervisor — Ken Montgomery ) convocated with a Master ’ s in Education , and Tatum Cruise , Manager , Student Program Centre , received her Master ’ s in Administration ( Leadership ).
2014 MEd graduate , Heather Findlay , was honoured with a $ 2000 Saskatchewan School Boards Association Graduate Student Award for her work entitled , “ Just a Pepper in a Bunch of Salt : Aboriginal Students ’ Stories of School .”

The First Western Canadian Conference on American Sign Language ( ASL ) and English Bilingual Education October 17 , 2014 Faculty of Education , University of Regina , Ed 228 Registration 8:30 - 9:00 Reception 4:30

Conference Theme : “ The State of the Art in Language and Literacy Education for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students ”

Guest speakers include Jim Cummins ( OISE , University of Toronto ), Robert Hoffmeister , ( Boston University ), Kristin Snoddon ( Carleton University ), and Charlotte Enns ( University of Manitoba ).
For more information about the conference , see website : http :// aslenglishbilingualconference . wordpress . com /
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