Newletter articles by belinda chi
Lead the Change , 2024
In our research, we examine how teachers are leveraging and contextualizing British Columbia’s cu... more In our research, we examine how teachers are leveraging and contextualizing British Columbia’s curriculum to meet local needs, develop competencies of 21st century learners, and develop pedagogies that draw from and lift up students’ funds of knowledge and identity. This case study examines how Education Change Networks (ECNs) can foster teacher leadership and collective work towards common goals in ways that respond to the needs of communities and welcome local holistic Indigenous ways of knowing and being. In partnership with the Ministry of Education who support seed funding grants, project leaders were invited to collaborate with local First Nations and Indigenous community members and focus on improving literacy and numeracy for Indigenous students using current research.
Papers by belinda chi
Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, 2019
This paper explores the potentiality inherent within a community-campus partnership in the area o... more This paper explores the potentiality inherent within a community-campus partnership in the area of inservice teacher education, and the inter-institutional space that has afforded creative and collaborative practices. Through this partnership, we endeavour to find innovative ways to better serve our students and create opportunities for smooth interactions and flow across school and university communities. Unlike other research that explores tensions and/or common ground within community-university partnerships, we seek to understand the potential that is created in the metaphorical space in-between institutions. Using dialogic inquiry, the diverse members of our teaching team, including members of the university community and the K-12 school system, as well as graduates of the program, reflected on the unique material, discursive and relational dimensions of our inter-institutional space. We came to see our graduate program as a hybrid place of connections, rhythms, and intersectio...
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Newletter articles by belinda chi
Papers by belinda chi