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Making a Difference at the Top High School in Canada Bruce Coggles ‘72 BEd, ‘75 BA

Where the Bears Roam A Man of Conscience Helping Students Today and Tomorrow The Orange is the Faculty of Education’s alumni magazine. Published twice a year KEEPING ALUMNI CURRENT by the Faculty’s Office of External Relations, The Orange is distributed to alumni, friends, faculty, students and staff.

Dean of Education Fern Snart Greetings Director of External Relations/Editor from the Michele Shea

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Contributing writers and photographers This academic year has been a rich one indeed for the Faculty of Education. Dawn Ford, Heidi Julien, Gordon McIntosh, Sean Mowat, Scott Rollans, Michele Shea, The Faculty’s Office of International Initiatives was opened July 1st to coordinate and build Richard Siemens, Fern Snart upon the broad base of international work within the faculty. We have a responsibility as a Faculty of Education to ensure that every student understands teaching and learning within a Send your comments to: global context, and the range of multicultural learning needs in their future classrooms. This Office of External Relations office will play an instrumental role in facilitating that. Faculty of Education Two new department chairs were appointed in the faculty: Joe da Costa in Educational Policy University of Studies and Elaine Simmt in Secondary Education. We also welcomed back Dianne Oberg as 4-107 Education North , AB T6G 2G5 Chair of Elementary Education. We are extremely fortunate to have such talent in all of our department chairs.

Tel: 780.492.7755 The Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP), an off campus collaborative degree comple- Fax: 780.492.0155 tion program (years 3 and 4), began a program through Maskwachees Cultural College in E-mail: [email protected] Hobbema in September. This student group is in addition to those studying through Northern Lakes College in Slave Lake and Grouard. Our second program through Blue Quills First Na- tions College will begin in September 2007.

The faculty held a successful and informative Reunion Weekend 2005 and we were pleased to have a number of alumni return to campus; some after more than fifty years! Reunion Weekend is a wonderful time to be on campus and I encourage those of you whose graduation year ends in a “1” or “6” to consider participating in this year’s reunion weekend activities planned for September 28th through October 1st. We would love to see you at the Faculty of Education’s events.

As I complete my first academic year as Dean of the Faculty of Education and as we develop the ’s vision, mission and academic plan under the guidance of President Indira Samarasekera, I can report that our future as a university and as a faculty is a promising one indeed, filled with energy and optimism. We have much to be proud of and I know that you share my pride in the faculty and your alma mater. Publications Mail Agreement No. 40063579 I hope as the warmer months begin to roll out before us you will sit back and take a moment to Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to enjoy this issue of The Orange. Circulation Dept. I encourage you to stay in touch and to come back and see us when you can. Office of External Relations Fern Snart, ‘79 PhD Faculty of Education Dean University of Alberta 4-107 Education North Edmonton, AB T6G 2G5 E-mail: [email protected] T H E O R A N G E I SPRING/SUMMER 2006  PAGE

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COVER STORY 14 Making a Difference at the Top High School in Canada

A profile of Bruce Coggles (’72 BEd, ‘75 BA), Principal of Jasper Place High School in Edmonton.

8 Research Profile: FEATURES Ali Shiri

4 Just Do It Dr. Shiri has already made a name for himself since joining the U of A The Faculty of Education is leading the way with its more than a year ago. international activities under the direction of George Richardson (‘73 BA, ’76 Dip(Ed), 77 MA, ’98 PhD).

6 Where the Bears Roam

A look into the pedagogy of Guy Lefrançois (’66 PhD) and how his rural upbringing was the inspiration behind it.

13 Helping Students Today and Tomorrow 12 Not the Retiring Type Shane Gauthier (’98 BEd, ‘04 MEd) talks about his motivations for establishing two awards in the Faculty. Anne Brailsford (’72 BEd, ’81 MEd, ‘85 PhD) shows no signs of slowing down with her work in 18 A Man of Conscience balanced literacy.

More than 60 years ago Professor Emeritus John Bergen (‘67 PhD) faced a test of conscience and took a brave stand for his beliefs.

DEPARTMENTS 16 Insuring a 10 Reunion Weekend 2005 Better Future 21 Class Notes Bruce Monkhouse (‘78 BA, ‘83 MA, ‘85 PhD) is helping to 22 Reunion Weekend 2006 establish a Professorship in Educational Psychology. JUST DO IT: EDUCATION FACULTY ‘POSTER CHILD’ FOR GLOBAL APPROACH

by Geoff McMaster

Aside from University of Alberta International, of Education’s new Office of International for science, English as a second language, it’s hard to find anyone on campus who Initiatives, estimates there are more than 40 student-centred learning and curriculum pursues international connections in a more faculty members involved in some degree in leadership.” focused way than the Faculty of Education. international work. “The more you delve into “It’s a fascinating experiment, a culture Last July it opened an office devoted to it the more you realize there is just an awe- change,” said Richardson. “We spent a week internationalization, not so much to drive some array of talent here,” he said. in the field talking to principals about their initiatives overseas as to organize and pro- Not surprisingly, much of the faculty’s concept of leadership and management. The vide resources for work that’s been going on international work is in China, a rapidly trans- idea is to shift the role of the principal as a for years. forming society whose economy is poised to manager…making them more instructional “They definitely have been a real leader on become the strongest in the world. leaders.” this campus,” said Rae McDonald of U of A “They realize their traditional approach, Drs. Jim Parsons, Tara Fenwick and Joe International. “They have had a very good which really is knowledge-and-content Wu have also been working for a number outward approach. One of the things that heavy, wasn’t really working in a modern of years with Hebei province, to provide gets investment in the world is the develop- knowledge economy,” Richardson said. elementary textbooks for English as a second ment of capacity for education. And from “What they want to do is move to a teach- language. Their textbook is one of 10 of- after the Second World War, the U of A has ing style where students are encouraged to ficially approved by Beijing for use across been involved in projects from the education engage in inquiry and think critically, rather China. Wu has provided textbooks for junior side.” than simply respond with rote knowledge.” high students, and has also been involved The university’s involvement in building in training teachers there in a more student- Richardson is involved in a Canadian Interna- education systems in developing countries centred approach. tional Development Agency project aimed at began in Korea in the 1950s, with more than developing four distance-education courses But in addition to the Chinese connection, 800 school administrators training at the U for 360 high schools in remote areas of West- the faculty is also striking partnerships in Ab- of A. It soon spread to Thailand in the 1960s ern China. The schools will take advantage original education, with a faculty exchange and 1970s, and China in the late 1970s. The of a satellite network donated to the country agreement with Massey University in New faculty now also has strong links with Africa, by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, former Zealand “to really take advantage of the best New Zealand and Mexico. owner of Husky Oil. in Indigenous scholarship.” That link is partly It doesn’t hurt that the faculty has a strong led by Dr. Makere Stewart-Harawira of the He explains, “The project is managed by international profile as one of the first educa- Department of Educational Policy Studies, a Agriteam, a Calgary-based consulting firm, tion faculties in Canada, and the first to offer Maori scholar who joined the U of A in 2004. and coordinated on the U of A’s behalf by doctorates. For several generations, alumni University of Alberta International. The proj- In Africa, Dr. Ali Abdi runs three projects: one from overseas have returned to positions of ect team is producing curriculum materials involves helping the eastern Cape area of leadership in their respective countries.

“So we have unbelievable alumni around the world who are connected,” said McDonald, “The more you delve into it the more you adding that the children of those alumni have been arriving here in large numbers to study, because of the U of A’s reputation and realize there is just an awesome array the loyalty of its graduates.

Dr. George Richardson, ‘73 BA, ’76 Dip(Ed), of talent here.” ‘77 MA, ’98 PhD, Coordinator of the Faculty T H E O R A N G E I SPRING/SUMMER 2006  PAGE

South Africa transform its curricula, another in Somalia is helping reconstruct an educa- tion system destroyed by civil war, and a citizen education project in Zambia is con- tributing to “the overall process of democra- tization in Africa,” Abdi said. “It’s education for political emancipation. Although there is a democracy in name, there’s not much happening for the public. Without education, nothing will move forward.”

The faculty is also making headway in Mexico and Bavaria, mainly setting up exchange programs for faculty and school teachers.

A major goal for the future is to increase student participation in exchange programs. The faculty has recently established an arrangement in which students who have completed practicums can get additional ex- perience overseas. Initial talks are underway to establish an exchange agreement with a Korean university.

“The aim,” says Richardson, “is to include some sort of overseas placement for every Dr. George Richardson co-ordinates the Faculty of Education’s Office of International Initiatives. student who wants it. For me, that would be The faculty is seen as a leader on campus in international affairs. a major accomplishment.”

“It’s the best aspect of globalization,” he said. “It can have its problematic aspects “The aim is to include some sort of and certainly does. But this kind of interna- tional exchange, intercultural dialogue, takes overseas placement for every student advantage of our best abilities and brings who wants it.” forward some of the best work.” Reprinted with the permission of Folio.

Last December, the Office of Interna- tional Initiatives hosted a gathering of visiting scholars in the faculty. Nine of our visiting scholars were able to attend, with eight representing various regions in China and one from Japan. Some had only recently arrived in Canada, while others were scheduled to leave as soon as January 2006. The occasion, an informal celebration of the festive season, offered the opportunity to meet, exchange stories about experiences in Canada, and share food. Where the Bears Roam Inside the Pedagogy of Guy Lefrançois

by Dawn Ford

“Most of my books are a little deceptive. At first glance, they might even appear a little mickey mouse. A lot of professors would reject such books out of hand, but the level of conceptual complexity is deeper than realized.” ” T H E O R A N G E I SPRING/SUMMER 2006  PAGE

Bears, wild cows and aliens roam the pages of A unique teaching style comes naturally for “When I decided to write, I had been teaching Guy Lefrançois’s books. He credits much of his Lefrançois whose father was a teacher for 41 at the university for about three years. I saw imagination to a rustic upbringing that included years. Guy recalls a one-room school house the opportunity and need to write text books. a one-room cabin without electricity and a bursting to capacity with students, many of I flipped a coin…heads I would write novels, father who taught him to love books and learn- whom spoke only Cree or French Métis. He tails I would write text books.” ing. Lefrançois, honorary professor at the Facul- remembers vividly his father’s many ways of Tails won and so did the field of educational ty of Education, is known as an avid adventurer introducing a subject. psychology. With over 40 publications including and acclaimed writer whose wit and words have “My father often began lessons with state- translations in German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian been unearthing the complexity of educational ments like, ‘suppose you have a wild cow’, and Russian, Lefrançois’s writing career quickly psychology for over twenty-five years. a rich word, ‘suppose,’ pregnant with im- took him from the cannonic roar of his univer- Creative, quirky and occasionally bordering on plications,” says Lefrançois. “He knew how sity lecture halls to negotiating with publishers, the absurd, Lefrançois’s writings have a way important teaching is and he was proud to be often over the details of his ursine metaphors. of luring even the most hesitant of readers. a teacher.” Bears are the common thread throughout his For example, in the following excerpt from his Along with school-yard anecdotes some series of Psychology for Teaching, first written Theories of Human Learning, he enlists the nar- of which include prowling bears and frigid in 1972 and now in its tenth edition. In the ration skills of Kongor, an extraterrestrial from a outhouses, Lefrançois tells of surviving long, preface to each edition, he explains the reason planet on the rim of the third solar system. isolated winters by hauling water and wood for his furry guests. “In the space between waking and sleep- ing, the human mind is easily deceived; it responds to the unreal as though it “When I decided to write, I had been teaching were real; occasionally it assumes that reality is a dream. Thus, I was not par- ticularly frightened when I felt a gentle at the university for about three years. I saw the tug at my foot, and looking down, saw an extremely strange little creature.” opportunity and need to write text books. I flipped According to Lefrançois, introductions are a pedagogical and motivational device meant a coin…heads I would write novels, tails I would to help readers move beyond the complex nu- ances of academic text. write text books.” “Most of my books are a little deceptive. At first glance, they might even appear a little mickey mouse. A lot of professors would reject in 50-below weather, of listening to Foster “A bear strutting through the pages of a seri- such books out of hand, but the level of con- Hewitt’s Hockey Night in Canada on a battery- ous textbook was a bit of a jolt. It broke the ceptual complexity is deeper than realized.” powered radio, and of reading by the light of tedium of uninterrupted academic content; coal oil lamps. It was there that he garnered a it sometimes made readers smile – or even Beginnings ripe with imagination are as much love of books. laugh. And it didn’t detract from the serious a part of Lefrançois’s writing as his classroom “nuts and bolts” of the chapters. So the bear style of instruction. After graduating from the “My father was also the local librarian. Once continued in all later revisions.” University of Saskatchewan with a BEd in 1963 a month we would get a big wooden box and an MEd in 1965, Lefrançois taught both filled with books someone from a library in “The bear metaphor was invented as much elementary and high school in rural Alberta. Regina had picked out. I would read anything by readers of earlier editions as by me,” says After obtaining a PhD from the University of and everything. If I misbehaved, I was sent Lefrançois. “ Some of these readers have Alberta in 1966, he became a professor in into the school basement where my dad kept decided that the bear is a metaphor for a Educational Psychology where his unique style these books. The basement had no light, but teacher, or perhaps for teaching. Others of teaching echoed throughout the faculty’s it did have one tiny window. So instead of reached different conclusions. All are correct; halls, literally. spending an hour or two contemplating my inventions are never flatly wrong.” sins, I would crawl up on a dirt ledge by the “My first class of the year always involved firing Whatever their purpose, Lefrançois’s creations window and read.” a cannon made for me by one of my students. attest to his own philosophies about teaching It was a very small, fully functional cannon, and Whether or not window ledges and dank and learning. I would tell stories and talk about the course basements inspired his first dally with words, while I loaded it with a bit of gunpowder and Lefrançois recalls wanting to be a writer since “So much of good teaching is keeping people in- a rubber eraser. At the end of the class, I would he was a young boy. And by age seven, he had terested and attentive. Whether the beginning of fire the cannon at the wall. A puff of smoke penned his first poem “About my Rat.” a book or a lecture, that’s where it’s at. If a good and a bang and usually some clapping and pedagogue combines a good story with humour, cheering and then I would give students as one About my rat students will be engaged,” says Lefrançois. possible assignment, the task of writing about you may be proud of your dog or maybe your cat Dawn Ford, ‘00 BEd, is the Faculty of Education’s why a professor would begin a class by firing a or still your frog Director of Communications. cannon,” says Lefrançois. but you can’t beat my rat Research Profile of Dr. Ali Shiri School of Library and Information Studies

by Heidi Julien

After only a year and a half in the Faculty of Digital Library Research at the University of Ali has both a BA and an MA in Library and Education, Dr. Ali Shiri has already put down Strathclyde until taking up his position at the Information Studies from the University of strong research roots. The School of Library University of Alberta. Tehran. Prior to beginning his PhD pro- and Information Studies was fortunate to re- gram, he worked as a cataloguer, indexer, For his PhD dissertation, Ali investigated how cruit Ali in July 2004, fresh from his doctoral resource organization officer, database search thesaurus-enhanced search interfaces can studies in Information Science, Department specialist and researcher in Tehran, as well improve information retrieval, specifically of Computer and Information Sciences, Uni- as a lecturer at Alameh Tababaei University. from large online bibliographic databases versity of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K. While The theoretical work for his doctorate and in the domain of agriculture and veterinary pursuing his PhD, he worked as a tutor in the academic publications has been balanced sciences. His main areas of interest are MSc Information Management Program and by practical work in the area of health information and knowledge organization, as a project officer for the Glasgow Health information and digital libraries, giving Ali the subject approach to information retrieval, Information Gateway. Ali also worked on a well-rounded understanding of the is- and user-centered evaluation of knowledge a number of funded digital library projects sues involved in organizing and accessing organization tools. as a senior researcher at the Centre for information. These interests are key areas in T H E O R A N G E I SPRING/SUMMER 2006  PAGE

library and information studies. bilingual subject access to the collection. His On the service front, Ali is already playing a evaluation of the interfaces to knowledge strong role. He is on the advisory board of Ali has already secured a research grant from organization systems showed that a variety the Canadian Taxonomy of Human Services, the Faculty of Education (Support for the of methods and approaches have been a project funded by InformCanada to de- Advancement of Scholarship) to fund a study adopted to allow users to explore the subject velop a pan Canadian, bilingual taxonomy titled “Application of Knowledge Organization structure of the collections. The evaluation of human services to be used by Information Systems in Canadian Portals, Gateways and also showed that searching, browsing and and Referral Services across the country. He Digital Libraries.” The purpose of this research navigation facilities as well as bilingual fea- also sits on the editorial advisory board for was to investigate the ways in which Cana- tures call for improvements. This project is the journal Library Review, published at the dian digital library collections have made use making strong contributions to the following University of Strathclyde. of knowledge organization systems. areas: digital libraries, knowledge organiza- Ali brought his family to Edmonton with In particular, the study explored the extent tion systems and services, and user interface him; together they have been exploring the to which the surveyed digital library collec- design. The findings provide insight into city and have come to appreciate its many tions have incorporated knowledge organiza- the various ways of incorporating knowledge amenities and multicultural atmosphere. Ali tion systems into their search interfaces. organization systems into digital library in- reports that he’ll take Edmonton’s snow over The focus of this project was on academic terfaces to support users’ query formulation, Glasgow’s damp any day! Ali’s colleagues at and governmental digital library collections. reformulation and expansion. the School of Library and Information Studies Ali identified thirty-three digital library col- Ali’s teaching areas are complementary to are thrilled to have him on board and look lections that have made use of knowledge his research, and include Organization of forward to sharing in his future successes. organization (KOS) systems. Twenty of the Knowledge and Information, Advanced collections were academic and the remaining Heidi Julien, ’83 BEd, ’94 MLIS, is an Associate Topics in the Organization of Knowledge, thirteen were governmental. Professor with the School of Library and Infor- Digital Librarianship, and Cataloguing and mation Studies. Among other variables, Ali analyzed sponsor- Classification. These interests make impor- ing institutions, the type of KOS system used, tant contributions to the Master of Library as well as whether the interface provides and Information Studies curriculum.

On February 28, 2006, The Honour- able Norman L Kwong, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, and The Hon- ourable Iona Campagnolo, Lieuten- ant Governor of British Columbia, met with representatives of the Faculty of Education to learn more about the faculty’s work in Aboriginal education.

The meeting provided an opportu- nity for several of our PhD students and faculty members to discuss their research and share information about faculty programs such as the Indig- enous Peoples' Education Graduate Program and the Aboriginal Teacher Education Program.

Dean Fern Snart, Dr. Delores Vanderway, Her Honour Mrs. Mary Kwong, The Honourable Norman L. Kwong, The Honourable Iona Campagnolo, Sarah Pocklington, Shauna Bruno, Jeanette Sinclair, Dwayne Donald, Dr. Lori Campbell. Reunion Weekend 2005 The fourth floor lounge in Education North was alive with laughter and conversation as alumni gathered to celebrate Reunion Weekend last Fall.

Reunion Weekend was recognized as an official event of Alberta’s centenary celebrations, and in keeping with that theme alumni were treated to many visual displays depicting campus life and teaching during the last century.

Dean Fern Snart was the keynote speaker at the Saturday brunch and gave an overview of some of the exciting developments in the Faculty in the past year.

It was an absolute pleasure having so many alumni back on campus, and we hope to see as many of you as possible at Reunion 2006 from September 28th to October 1st.

Michael Skuba, ’45 BEd, ’55 MEd, ’65 PhD

Margaret (Lien) Harms, ’55 BEd Katherine (Melham) Crosby, ’81 BEd Dean Fern Snart, ’79 PhD & Dr J.P. Das, Professor Emeritus

Mary (Wong) Fung, ’73 BEd T H E O R A N G E I SPRING/SUMMER 2006 11 PAGE

Alan Bell, ‘53 BA, ’55 BEd, ’67 MEd, points to a photograph of himself taken in 1958

Stephen Leppard, ’86 BEd, ’92 MEd, ’03 EdD Elizabeth (Hoope) Leppard, ’90 MEd

Jean Mucha, ’65 BEd, ’79 MEd and her husband, Alex

Frances Schultz, ’56 BEd Not the Retiring Type

by Scott Rollans

Four years ago Anne Brailsford (‘72 BEd, ‘81 MEd, ‘85 PhD) cut the cake at her retirement party and headed for Vancouver Island, yet her days have not been spent quietly potter- ing around her garden.

Brailsford is best known as the architect of Edmonton Public’s balanced literacy program, a model designed to increase reading and writing achievement of primary-aged students and to provide teacher professional develop- ment on specific instructional strategies and resources. Now a fixture in 120 Edmonton schools, the program weaves together an array of strategies for boosting reading and writing skills. Its success has sparked interest “We found when we matched what we were doing in well beyond Alberta’s borders.

Brailsford took a bit of a circuitous route to becoming a literacy guru. She moved to balanced literacy with a reading recovery program, Canada from England in 1967, and began her Canadian career in rural Alberta. After we had 100 percent of the children in those teaching everything from elementary to senior high, she came to Edmonton Public to work with hearing-impaired students. classrooms achieving at or above grade level.” While taking time off to earn a master’s degree in educational psychology, Brailsford discovered a new passion through the Nine years ago, it all started to come to- literacy with a reading recovery program, U of A’s graduate reading clinic. She returned gether. The province was about to launch a we had 100 percent of the children in those to Edmonton Public as a reading specialist. new language arts program, and Brailsford classrooms achieving at or above grade was asked by an Edmonton principal to level.” Brailsford immediately began looking for ways help teachers deliver it. Over the course of to do things better. “Reading specialist has Word spread quickly. By the following the summer, Brailsford mapped out what traditionally been an assessment role,” she ex- September, Brailsford had 18 schools lined she thought would be an ideal program. By plains. “I wanted to turn it around so we’d be up to take part. “I didn’t invite people,” she September, four schools had volunteered to working in prevention, not just assessment.” marvels. “They phoned me and asked, ‘Can test it. we join?’” Before long, she found herself In the early nineties, Brailsford worked in “That first year, we worked on using fielding calls from kindergarten teachers, plus paired reading with parents and children, multi-level reading programs with guided teachers in grades 4–6, and scrambling to and noted a marked boost in the reading reading,” explains Brailsford. “We looked at accommodate them all. levels of the children who took part. She did integrating more word recognition and spell- peer projects with junior high students, pair- “That second year was probably my hardest ing work on a daily basis in the classroom. ing stronger readers with those who were year. I was running an enlarged grade 1–3 We looked at a writing program. And we less able. She also performed teacher in- program, and then I added on an in-service looked at reaching as many children as we services, helping them find new ways to do for kindergarten teachers, and then I had a could in the classroom. At the end of that things in the classroom. “For instance, I real- pilot group of grades 4–6 teachers.” year, the children who had been in that pro- ized that in our reading programs we could gram had done extremely well in reading.” not be using one book for the whole class. On the basis of extensive research, Brailsford built her program around in-servicing. Everybody doing the same novel study—and “In fact,” says Brailsford, “we found when we “Before I asked teachers to use a strategy, it’s always novels, never non-fiction. I wanted matched what we were doing in balanced to change that.” I modelled it for them in the classroom. If T H E O R A N G E I SPRING/SUMMER 2006 13 PAGE

especially in the inner city schools,” she “Before I asked teachers to use a strategy, I marvels. “The kids in the inner city schools have actually made more gains than the kids in the other schools. They’re still not quite modelled it for them in the classroom. If I could at level, but they have made tremendous, tremendous gains in reading and writing.” demonstrate with teachers in their classrooms, With other reading specialists now carrying her work forward in Edmonton, Brailsford is enjoying the opportunity to reach even more then the next time they may feel they can teachers as an author. Balanced Literacy in Action, written with Jan Coles, is out on the demonstrate it to me, or we’ll teach alongside.” shelves, and she and Coles have just put the finishing touches on a new multi-level read- ing program for grades 6–9.

I could demonstrate with teachers in their One-shot in-services can raise interest, but If Brailsford’s pace has slowed slightly, she classrooms, then the next time they may feel my desire was to get a sustainable in-service shows no signs of stopping. “Literacy is a they can demonstrate it to me, or we’ll teach model, where people can move from support great, passionate interest to me, and I expect alongside.” to independence. That’s one of the major it always will be right through my life. I don’t tenets of our balanced literacy program. We think I could ever give it up; I care too much “In a way,” Brailsford continues, “the pro- teach strategies in supported contexts.” about it.” gram changed the professional development model we had been using in the district, Brailsford’s conviction in her methods has Scott Rollans is an Edmonton-based freelance which was largely in-service and then you try been validated by the district’s own research. writer and editor with a special interest in it and phone me if you want to talk about it. “The results have been so encouraging, education. Helping Students Today and Tomorrow

by Michele Shea

Shane Gauthier (’98 BEd, ’04 MEd) is cur- rently living in a 3-dimensional world: as a communications and research manager with the Alberta government; a Harvard student pursuing a doctoral degree in Management; and an aspiring author of children’s books.

What might seem like a colossal undertaking for most people, Shane handles each of his pursuits with equaled, unbridled enthusiasm and unwavering commitment.

This busy young alumnus credits the Uni- versity of Alberta with providing the training ground for his extreme multi-tasking abilities. He says, “I served on the Graduate Students’ Association as the Educational Psychology Representative for three years and thanks to that experience, and others, I learned early on the necessity of balancing school and other commitments.”

Shane’s deep rooted belief in the U of A, Continued on page 19 Bruce Coggles MAKING A DIFFERENCE at the Top High School in Canada T H E O R A N G E I SPRING/SUMMER 2006 15 PAGE

By Sean Mowat

Maclean’s magazine recently profiled Career preparation for Jasper Place students an award-winning and unparalleled Computer Edmonton’s Jasper Place Composite High continues right through to graduation. Each and Technology Studies program, just to name School as the top overall high school in Canada, student maintains a portfolio that is monitored a few. Offering a wide variety of choices for due in no small part to Bruce Coggles (’72 by the school and the student to ensure goals students seems to be working, as even stu- BEd, ‘75 BA) who has been the Principal at are being completed and the student is on dents who exhibit high-risk drop-out behaviour Jasper Place (JP) for the past 11 years. The track for their post-secondary plan. In addi- go on to graduate. Maclean’s article was inspired by William Ouchi, tion, students learn time management and ef- Bruce says, “Most recently we expanded our a professor at the University of California, who fective study skills, attend sessions from several music program to include guitar and it has has studied over 228 schools and in his book speakers in various fields, and receive career grown so popular that we now have seven Making Schools Work proclaims Jasper Place placements or job shadowing opportunities classes and need more. Students perform at to be “the Swiss Watch” of high schools and that expose them to their desired careers. In Bruce Coggles as “the perfect example of an entrepreneurial principal”. Ouchi describes an entrepreneurial principal as a principal who focuses on student achievement and controls “In order to help students be successful and every aspect of the school. According to Ouchi, an entrepreneurial principal is an essential factor keep them in school there must be a connection in achieving a “top-flight” school and Bruce Coggles proves this theory. between what they are learning now and what The Edmonton Public School Board expects its educational leaders to keep students in school and do whatever it takes to help them they plan to do after high school.” complete their courses successfully. This simply stated but difficult to achieve goal was the foundation upon which Bruce and his staff some cases students serve as interns with a school concerts and some students are writing at JP built the most comprehensive school professional who serves as a mentor to guide their own music.” their studies. Coggles sums up the program program in the district. Bruce says, “Jasper Place would not be as by saying, “Most students after graduation successful as it is if it weren’t for its cracker “We took the district’s directive to mean that have a clear picture of where they are going jack team of teachers and staff who have the every student deserves the same opportunities, and have received the required education and desire, commitment and the ability to do regardless of their ability or level of motiva- skill sets to get there.” tion,” says Bruce. “In order to help students be whatever it takes to make the programs work.” successful and keep them in school there must “JP has always been a good school”, says Cog- Bruce explains his primary role is “to hire the be a connection between what they are learn- gles when asked about the school’s reputation best people possible and then provide them ing now and what they plan to do after high prior to his arrival. He adds, “Unfortunately, with the vision and the resources to do what school. We do everything we can to ensure our because we were considered a vocational is collectively agreed upon to be best for our students’ educational plans complement their school, we did not always receive recognition students.” for our strong academic focus. Not only are career plans.” When asked for an example, Bruce says, we the only school in the district that has both “When I first became Principal at Jasper Place, Bruce credits the Career Directions Program the advanced placement and international bac- the Special Needs Program was rather weak developed at JP as being instrumental in calaureate programs, but our wide variety of and we quickly began working to improve it. increasing student achievement and student career and technology studies courses can aug- We decided to hire elementary school teachers retention. ment a university bound student’s education with special needs training because secondary in ways that strictly academic schools cannot.” “Every grade 10 student along with his or education teachers weren’t as strong in special Jasper Place High School was most recently her parents sits down with a career directions needs education at the time, especially when ranked fifth out of 17 other Edmonton high counsellor and together they try to identify it came to developing specialized reading schools in diploma exam scores. the student’s interests and aptitudes and what programs. The elementary school teachers the student might like to do after high school. Jasper Place strives to meet the needs and mentored the other teachers and in time the Bruce Coggles Once the student makes an informed decision interests of all students. Bruce says, “We offer program improved and enrolment increased to about a potential career path, goals are estab- a wide variety of courses and programs that the point where there are now over 400 special lished to support the plan and help ease the keep students interested and keep them in needs students among the 2100 students at- transition to post-secondary education or to school, while providing the best educational tending Jasper Place, and they are in programs the working world.” Coggles adds, “Students experience possible.” JP has a superb athletic designed to help them succeed and graduate who can see a desirable end product to their program, a state-of-the-art fitness centre, a from high school.” studies become more focused and tend to do sports medicine program, a successful special Bruce’s “students come first” philosophy seems better in their courses.” needs program, on-site distance learning, and Continued on page 20 Insuring a Educational Psychology Better Professorship Will Help Academics Future Make a Difference

by Lois Hammond

Bruce Monkhouse, ’78 BA, ’83 MA, ’85 PhD, have the kinds of opportunities I had,” says goal. “I am very much in favour of giving sits across from “John Doe” in William Head Monkhouse. That’s why he has generously back to the University because we’re going to Institution, a minimum security prison near donated a $1-million life insurance policy to be able to educate more professionals who’ve Victoria, British Columbia. Years ago, John fund a Professorship in Educational Psychol- got access to quality teachers and research.” committed a violent murder that made head- ogy. Monkhouse will fund the policy with “Counselling professionals can make a differ- lines across the country, but he’s no longer annual premiums for 15 years—the resulting ence,” he says. “Clients and teachers I’ve had the man he was then. Monkhouse is helping charitable tax receipt he receives for each of come back and talk about the impact we’ve John explore how his attitudes and beliefs the premiums paid will provide him with a had. That’s very energizing.” have changed, and how that will control tax credit that he may use to reduce any taxes his behaviour. John is learning he is not the that are otherwise due. By working with the Monkhouse’s first clients were troubled crime he committed. He can get on with his University of Alberta Gift Planning Unit and his teenagers in Edmonton group homes. He life, despite his past. With help, John will be- financial advisor, Monkhouse has established has never forgotten their puzzling, tragic come one of the thousands of rehabilitated a charitable plan that meets his philanthropic contradictions. Thirteen year olds were ex-criminals who live a productive life.

It’s a common scene for Monkhouse, a forensic psychologist who counsels prisoners How the Monkhouse Gift Works on the inside and on the outside after they’re parolled. Monkhouse learned the treatment In 2004, Bruce Monkhouse purchased a life Other Life Insurance Options he uses—Behavioural Cognitive Therapy—at insurance policy, making the University of There are a number of additional opportu- the University of Alberta while earning his Alberta the owner and beneficiary. He will nities in the use of life insurance as a giving doctorate in the Department of Educational pay annual premiums for 15 years. vehicle. Psychology. At the time, it was a new treat- Each year, he will receive a charitable tax ment, championed by the department head, Options include: receipt for any premium paid into the Harvey Zingle, (’56 BEd, ’60 MEd, ’65 PhD). policy. Naming the University as the ben- “John Patterson, (‘63 BPE, ’67 Dip (Ed), ’68 eficiary only of a life insurance Upon his death, the insurance policy is pay- MEd), Jim Vargo, (‘68 BA, ’70 MEd, ’72 PhD), policy—the charitable tax receipt will be able to the University. and Henry Janzen were excellent mentors,” issued for the death benefit only, not for recalls Monkhouse. “John had a private The proceeds will be used to endow a Pro- any premiums paid. practice in the Edmonton General Hospital fessorship in Educational Psychology. and a number of us interned there. The staff Wealth replacement life insurance— was very supportive. Sometimes we’d just sit Examples of monthly costs for a this option can be used to offset taxation of around and talk about psychology and coun- $100,000 Joint Last to Die policy: capital gains or to compensate for a dona- tion of property. selling. They made it personal, friendly, and Both Age 40 $60 collegial, and that sticks with me to this day. Both Age 50 $100 For more information about life insurance When I teach, I try to create the same col- Both Age 60 $165 or any other deferred gift vehicle, please legial manner and environment of respect.” call Michele Shea at 780.492.3680. “I think those of us who are doing well have a responsibility to help the next generation Continued on page 19 T H E O R A N G E I SPRING/SUMMER 2006 17 PAGE A Man of Conscience: Professor Emeritus John J. Bergen by Gordon McIntosh

At 20 years of age John Bergen was faced with a test of conscience that most of us are “I am willing to go through never called upon to face. It was the autumn of 1942. Canada was at war. all the dangers the soldiers John graduated from the Winnipeg Normal School in the spring of 1942. In September are going through, if need be he had taken a Grades 1-9 teaching position with the Hopeland School District, north of Homewood, Manitoba. to lay down my life. But I

Raised in a Mennonite family in southern Manitoba, and a committed member of the would help to sustain rather Mennonite faith, John declared himself a conscientious objector that autumn, thereby than to destroy life. I would refusing combatant service in the Canadian armed forces. He explained his position in a letter to the Department of Education in gladly help in the care of the January 1943: “We are willing to help to sustain life, rather than to help to destroy wounded, if necessary on life, believing in Christ’s words ‘Love thine enemy,’ as well as ‘Love thy neighbor.’” the battlefield… .” War fever was running high in these early years of World War II. The allied fortunes remained bleak as a result of German victo- ries on both the eastern and western fronts of the European war. His teaching position thus denied him, John Manitoba, John and his family moved to returned home to work on the family farm Edmonton in 1963 so that he could pursue German-speaking minority people such as where he waited for an opportunity to serve doctoral studies. the Mennonites were viewed with suspicion his country in a manner consistent with the As John’s doctoral work neared completion, bordering on paranoia by many of their dictates of his conscience. neighbors and, in government circles, this Dr. Art Reeves, the legendary chair of the resentment and mistrust were mirrored in In September 1943, by Order in Council, the Department of Educational Administration public policy. Federal Government of Canada made provi- at the U of A, who was an intimidating pres- sion for conscientious objectors to serve as ence for many students and staff, asked him On January 24th, 1943 John wrote to the non-combatants with the Medical or Dental if he would be willing to take up an assistant War Selective Service Board in Winnipeg: “I Corps. In January 1944 John enlisted and professorship in the Department. John had am willing to go through all the dangers the served in Canada, England and Germany already committed himself to appear for an soldiers are going through, if need be to lay (where he worked as a translator during interview at the University of Saskatchewan. down my life. But I would help to sustain the first year of the occupation) until his Upon his return from Saskatoon, Dr. Reeves rather than to destroy life. I would gladly discharge in May 1946. repeated the offer. John was delighted to help in the care of the wounded, if necessary accept. on the battlefield… .” That same month the Manitoba Department of Education Discipline Committee met and John led a successful and fulfilling 22-year In a letter dated February 11th, C.K. Rogers, reinstated John’s teaching certificate. career at the U of A, retiring as a full profes- Superintendent of Schools for the Depart- sor in 1987. While on staff John had strong ment of Education, instructed John to Upon discharge from the army, John began attachments with international students; he appear before the Department’s Discipline studies for a BEd at the University of Mani- and his wife Hilda often invited the interna- Committee. On February 24th, the Com- toba and after completion of these studies tional students from his classes to the Bergen mittee handed down its decision: “… your resumed his teaching career in Manitoba. home. He explains, “I wanted our students understanding of Canadian citizenship does After 13 years in three rural school principal- from abroad to feel that they were among not meet the requirements of the teaching ships – Rosenfeld, Teulon, and Winkler – and friends during their studies here.” profession of this Province.” completion of his MEd, at the University of T H E O R A N G E I SPRING/SUMMER 2006 19 PAGE

In his retirement, he continues to support in- in the life of the university. that the cancellation of the certificate be ternational students through the John Bergen expunged from the record. He wrote: One loose end remains in this story. Travel Grant which enables international stu- “Mr. Bergen did serve his country during the dents in Educational Policy Studies to present The injustice of the cancellation of his teach- war, … society’s attitudes towards war have their research at scholarly conferences. “I ing certificate in 1942 continued to weigh on changed vastly in the last thirty years, and … felt I owed something to the Department John’s mind. Thirty years later, in July 1975, Mr. Bergen’s record as a certificated teacher [of Educational Policy Studies] that’s been so John asked that the case be reviewed by the was unimpeachable.” The Minister agreed. much a part of my life, he said in a recent Discipline Committee of the Department of The matter was closed. interview, “and I am pleased to support our Education. Instead, R. W. Dalton, the Deputy Gordon McIntosh is Professor Emeritus of international students.” Minister of Education, dealt with the matter Educational Policy Studies. himself and went beyond John’s request. He John is now a Professor Emeritus of Educa- recommended to the Minister of Education tional Administration at the U of A, still active

Helping Students Today and Tomorrow Continued from page 13 and education as a whole, prompted him to my appreciation for the excellent education Shane says, “I believe it is my duty to give recently establish two awards in the Faculty I received, plus I wanted to help students in back; I have so much to be thankful for of Education’s Department of Educational the Faculty of Education. I know how hard it and I feel very blessed to be able to help Psychology that bear his name. These two is for the students of today, and it feels great current and future students in the Faculty awards will recognize the top undergraduate knowing that I am helping students to reach of Education.” their goals.” and graduate papers in the area of special Shane’s first book in the “Patches the Beaver” education, with a preference for gifted Shane’s commitment to students goes series, aimed at teaching children about education. beyond the next few years and decades. He Canada’s cultural mosaic, will be in circulation Shane says, “My professors in Ed Psych were has included a charitable bequest to the U later this year. phenomenal; I felt so connected to them and of A in his will which will someday see the I felt they really listened to me.” He adds, creation of an endowment to fund his two Michele Shea is the Faculty of Education’s “That’s one of the reasons why I decided to awards in perpetuity. Director of External Relations. establish the two awards. I wanted to show

Insuring a Better Future Continued from page 16 sophisticated prostitutes, yet naïve children high-profile criminals who have committed Monkhouse is convinced supporting excel- who couldn’t even name their body parts. He very serious crimes. If you read about who lent faculty members at the U of A will lead learned early that, though a few clients were they were before they got out of prison, they to even more effective counselling therapies. intractable, most could be healed. He shared would have scared the heck out of you, but As a result of his gift, Monkhouse becomes those lessons with his students at Grant they have turned their lives around and are a member of the Quaecumque Vera Honour MacEwan College. leading very productive social lives.” Society, established to recognize donors’ forethought and valuable contributions to Perhaps the most inspiring stories come from “Once these guys get their substance abuse the future of the University. the prisoners who turn their lives around, and psychological problems dealt with, something Monkhouse thinks the public is they feel a lot of grief. Most of them are not “It’s my way of giving back,” he says. At 48, largely ignorant about. psychopaths. They have real angst about he’s grateful he can afford to make a differ- what they did and we can use that to help ence now. He points out, “The University “All the press and the public hear about is them. The public doesn’t see, by and large, benefits and the donor gets tax benefits. the re-offenders—and I understand that—but that the parole system works really well in Everybody wins.” only about one in 10,000 lifers re-offend,” Canada. People get out and they stay out.” says Monkhouse. “We had two incidents Reprinted with the permission of New Trail. Monkhouse emphasizes that Corrections last summer, but you can go back for years Services Canada is respected internationally and years, and it never happened. I’ve had Lois Hammond, ‘67 BEd, ‘73 MEd, is an for its treatment programs and research that the opportunity to work with some very Edmonton-based freelance journalist. demonstrates their effectiveness. Celebrating Excellence in Education On March 22, 2006, students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the Faculty of Education gathered to celebrate the academic achievements of more than fifty outstanding un- dergraduate students. Held at the Faculty Club, the first annual Dean’s Undergraduate Scholarship Dinner was attended by some of the faculty’s key benefactors in addition to the students who benefit from their scholar- ship support.

“We are here to celebrate the accomplish- ments of our students and offer gratitude to those who support them,” said Dean Snart during her keynote address. “We value your thoughtfulness in making every effort to help our students, and the reason we are all here is recognizable and living proof that this matters.”

Along with a host of Academic All Canadians and Dean’s Citation Award winners, the evening recognized students who excel in areas as diverse as peace education, early childhood, music, leadership and special education.

The Faculty of Education has awarded more than fifty undergraduate students with do- nor-funded scholarships for the 2005-2006 academic year. The Faculty now offers over $170,000 annually in scholarships and bur- saries to students at the undergraduate and graduate levels of study. Bruce Coggles Making A Difference At The Top High School In Canada Continued from page 15 to have started taking shape during the time he was a student at the Faculty of Education. “Jasper Place would not be as successful as it is if it weren’t for When asked about his university days, Bruce recalls, “I enjoyed the educational psycholo- its cracker jack team of teachers and staff who have the desire, gy courses the most because I learned about commitment and the ability to do whatever it takes to make the preparing students for life, not just how to teach them to do well in school.” programs work.”

The programs Bruce and his team have developed at Jasper Place show that he has a Public School system is the best managed nati, and will soon be implemented in New York deep understanding of what students need school system in North America, and Jasper City and possibly the entire state of Hawaii. to be successful in school and, more impor- Place High School is its “jewel”. The Edmonton tantly, what they need to be successful in life. Public School management system is currently Sean Mowat, ‘95 BEd, is the Faculty of being utilized in Seattle, Houston, and Cincin- William Ouchi’s study states that the Edmonton Education’s Alumni Relations Officer. T H E O R A N G E I SPRING/SUMMER 2006 21 PAGE Class Notes Norma-Jean Bowen, ’67 BEd, ’69 Ed(Dip), ’72 MEd, has retired from teach- ing and is now working in support of Obadiah Place, a provincial historical resource in Amber The Aboriginal women’s trio Asani won Valley, Alberta. Many Black American pioneers best female traditional/cultural roots came to Amber Valley at the turn of the century album for their cd Rattle & Drum at the to seek a new life, and Obadiah Place com- Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards last memorates the courage of the families who November. Rattle & Drum was also played a vital role in its history. nominated for a 2006 Juno Award. Carolyn Joy Sainchuk, ’73 BSc, ’75 Asani members Debbie Houle, Sarah BEd, is the Grant and Program Administrator Pocklington (PhD Candidate), Sherryl for Human Rights and Citizenship at Alberta Sewepagaham (’00 BEd) Community Development.

Charlie Galan, ‘74 BEd, writes, “After graduation I attended the U of A Law School for a time. I then briefly served as an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces. Following that, I joined the Alberta Government Department of Social Services and Community Health in Human Resources, followed by a stint as labour relations Glenn Heggie, ’83 BEd, ’88 MEd, ’00 Rodney in 1998 and we had our first child, advisor to the Alberta Attorney General. In 1980 Ed(Dip), became the Director of the University Gerrit, in 2002.” I started a 22-year career as a government-ap- of Missouri-Columbia’s Nuclear Medicine and Michael Goodman, ‘92 BEd, is currently pointed mediator settling labour disputes for Technology Program in 2003. Prior to relocat- teaching grades 5-7 at Sen Pok Chin School in the province. I then spent 4 years operating ing to Columbia, Dr. Heggie spent 27 years Oliver, BC. Michael teaches Phys Ed, Literacy, my own conflict resolution company, and in overseeing the clinical portion of the nuclear Math, Science and Social Studies. 2001 ran for Edmonton City Council in Ward medicine technology program in Edmonton. One. Finally, in 2002 I moved to Vancouver Curtis Blewett, ’88 BEd, received a Masters Melanie (Westland) Johnston, ’04 Island and am presently the Manager of Labour of Social Work in 1992 from San Diego State BEd, writes, “I am happy to be newly married Relations for the City of Nanaimo. I enjoy listen- University and is currently a supervisor with and teaching full-day private kindergarten in ing to blues and jazz, cooking, collecting books, Alberta Human Resources and Employment. Medicine Hat. I miss the U of A.” riding my motorcycle along the old ocean highway and writing bad poetry.” Brian Ouellette, ’88 Arts, ’90 BEd, works Dr. Ken Brien, ’04 Ed(Dip), was appointed for a web-based company called Juvio, which Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Dr. Che Kan Leong, ’74 PhD, is Professor provides 24-hour technical support on hard- the University of New Brunswick. Emeritus of the Department of Educational ware, software, networking and peripherals. Psychology and Special Education at the Dennis Pratt, ’05 BEd, is currently teaching University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Leong is also an Michele (Marples) Meijer, ’90 BEd, ’95 at Fultonvale Junior High School. He writes, “I honourary Professor at the University of Hong Ed(Dip), is currently on maternity leave from really enjoyed my time in the Education Faculty, Kong. Waverley Elementary School in Edmonton and I plan to return to the U of A when the where she teaches Early Education. Michele and time is right to continue my education in career Hugh Y. Rayment, ’77 BEd, writes, “I her husband have an eight-month-old son. and technology studies with a focus on special attended the U of A in the 60’s and 70’s in the needs students in CTS.” vocational education program. I taught at Linda Thorsen, ‘92 MEd, reports, “I Victoria Composite High School before retiring am currently teaching in Taipei, Taiwan for Tania (Dickau) Martens, ’05 BEd, mar- to Vernon. I am now 81 years old and still Morrison Christian Academy. I have been in ried Cornelius Martens after graduating and very much involved with young people. As a Taiwan for more than eight and a half years and moved to Cluj, Romania. Tania and Cornelius World War II veteran I visit schools in Vernon to teaching in Asia for over ten years altogether.” are working for Prison Fellowship International talk to students about the reality of war and of in the Romanian Center for Street Children Canada’s contribution to world peace over the Sharmaine (Verschoor) Boman, ’92 and Abandoned Children. Tania writes, “I past one hundred years. Last year, my book BEd, reports, “After graduating in 1992 I took have found many of the skills I learned at the Camp Vernon: a Century of Canadian Military my first position in Valleyview at Hillside Junior University useful as I teach behavior manage- History, was published and I am now in the High School, where I am currently teaching ment and life skills to these children who need a process of placing copies in school libraries.” Home Economics and Social 7. I married lot of love, attention and guidance.”

Awards Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2005 Alumni Recognition Awards: ALUMNI HONOUR AWARD ALUMNI HORIZON AWARD ALUMNI EXCELLENCE AWARD

Recognizing the significant contributions made Recognizing the outstanding achievements Celebrating outstanding, recent accomplish- over a number of years by University of Alberta of University of Alberta alumni early in their ments of University of Alberta graduates. alumni in the local communities and beyond. careers.

Jean E. Mucha, ‘65 BEd, ‘79 MEd, is a dedicated educa- tor and volunteer who tirelessly promotes lifelong education and local history.

Ted Langford, ‘72 BEd, has devoted his career to education and post-secondary administration Christine Nordhagen, ‘94 BEd, is one of the in Alberta and is world’s most accomplished female wrestlers recognized for his and is internationally hailed as a pioneer of commitment to the sport for women. Marcel Rocque, ‘96 BEd, is making Aboriginal educa- history with his Alberta rink teammates as tion. the only complete team to win four Briers. Reunion Weekend 2006 BE OUR GUEST AT REUNION WEEKEND 2006!

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• Centre for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education www.ioncmaste.ca/homepage/index.html • Faculty of Education special presentations, lectures, workshops www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/education/events.cfm • Reading and Language Centre www.literacy.ualberta.ca • Office of International Initiatives www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/education/international.cfm • The MUSE Project http://www.museums.ualberta.ca/resources/muse/ • The Hope-Lit database contains over 2000 English-language articles and books specific to hope www.hope-lit.ualberta.ca/Hope-LitDatabase.html.

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