Brittney Chabot is an experienced educator and community leader with over a decade of experience across diverse sectors. Since joining ECO-02 in 2022 as Project Director, she has led the development of strategic initiatives to support the English-speaking community in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region. Appointed Executive Director in 2023, she continues to advance program development designed with community needs in mind and helped identify crucial needs the Saguenay region.
Sessions in which Brittney Chabot participates
Thursday 6 November, 2025
Presentations:Overcoming Distance: Supporting Regional Students on Their Journey to Cégep Brittney Chabot, ECO-02Ashley Roy, ECO-02For the past two years, ECO-02 has been running PREP for Cégep at Riverside Regional High School, a program designed to support high school students from the Saguenay, a remote region with no English Cégep, as they ...
Sessions in which Brittney Chabot attends
Wednesday 5 November, 2025
Welcoming Remarks:Brian Lewis, Professor, Concordia University and Co-director, QUESCREN Opening Keynote Address:Partnering with Young People to Forge a Better Path Forward...
Presentations:Growing up "rural" in Quebec: Supporting high school students’ understandings of culture and citizenship through visual narrationJoanne Pattison-Meek, Bishop's University In September 2024, Quebec rolled out a new Culture and Citizenship in Quebec (CCQ) curriculum across th...
Presentations:Art & BelongingAnna J. McIntyre, Freelancer/Artistsinspire (ELAN)Jacqueline van de Greer, Artist & Educator“77% of Canadians agree or strongly agree that arts experiences help people feel part of their local community. This is especially true for newcomers and people in minority-language communities.” (Vital Signs: Arts & Belonging, published by the Community Foundations of Canada and Canadian A...
Quebec’s Postsecondary Education EconomyGraham Carr, President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia UniversityModerator: Celine Cooper, Director General, Consortium of English-Language CEGEPs, Colleges and Universities of QuebecIn this interview-style session, we will discuss the current state of Quebec's postsecondary education economy, the sustainability of its institutions and possible paths forward.
We will be wrapping up Day 1 with an update from the Quebec English School Boards Association. Quebec’s English School Boards: Situation Update and AnalysisSpeaker: Joe Ortona, President of the Quebec English School Boards Association (QESBA)Joe Ortona, president of the Quebec English School Boards Association (QESBA), will present on the current state of affairs, the immediate and foreseeable challenges and im...
Thursday 6 November, 2025
Welcoming Remarks:John McMahon - Assistant Deputy Minister, Secrétariat aux relations avec les Québécois d'expression anglaise (SRQEA) Keynote AddressBeyond the Game: Building Strength Through Sports, Education & CommunityDenburk Reid - Founder and CEO, Montreal Community Cares Foundation and Red Rush Basketball Leadership ProgramDenburk Reid will share his journey of perseverance, drawing on bot...
Presentations:Language laws and education in Quebec: a case study of English-speaking Quebecer Parents' School Choices in Notre-Dame-de-GrâceThibault Jacquemont, McGill UniversityIn this presentation, I will share findings from a research project on how Quebec’s language laws—especially Bills 101 and 96—shape the school choices of English-speaking parents in the Notre-Dame-d...
Format: 5-minute presentations followed by a group Q&A period Digital Literacy & Vocational Training Teachers: Preparing Student for Sustainable Work in a Trade Disrupted by a Digital WorldRobin Long, Provincial Organization...
Friday 7 November, 2025
Keynote AddressAmplifying Our Strengths, Protecting the Vitality of English Education in QuebecToula Drimonis - Opinion Columnist, Writer, and News ProducerThese are difficult times. The current government has cut education budgets drastically – and English-language institutions have not been spared. On the contrary, some argue that they’ve been presented as a problem for the survival of Quebec’s...
PresentationsOne Parent, Many Languages: 12 Strategies for Raising a Bilingual Child as a Solo ParentSophie Werheimer, Evaluation and research consultantThe One Parent / One Language approach is often touted as a strategy to support language acquisition in bilingual households. Not only does the approach’s efficacy remain inconclusive, but it problematically assumes that all children grow up in two-parent households. As the solo parent of a toddl...