
Roma Medwid
Roma Medwid is in her 47th year of education. She worked her way through the ranks as a teacher, vice principal and principal before being promoted to board level administration first as Assistant Director of Pedagogical Services, Regional Director, and retiring as Deputy Director General of the English Montreal School Board in 2015. She started her own educational consulting company, The Medwid Education Group in 2016. In 2017 she began her second career as Executive Director of Concordia University’s Teacher Educational Council. She oversees the teacher education programs leading to teacher certification.
In her spare time, she volunteers for Generations Foundation to raise funds for the needy children on the Island of Montreal. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Father Jean Foundation awarding scholarships to deserving scholars.
Sessions in which Roma Medwid attends
- Welcome Remarks, followed by Keynote Address: The Importance of a Plurilingual Approach in English-Speaking Higher Education for Language Vitality and Identity Validation
- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour
- Welcome remarks:Lorraine O'Donnell, Research Associate, QUESCREN; Affiliate Assistant Professor, Sch...
- Keynote

- Session 2A: Overcoming the distance: Practices in education in an online world
- 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM | 50 minutes
- Moderator: Richard Schmid, Professor, Education, Concordia University
- Talk
- Keynote Address: Online Education - The Experience of the Quebec Board of Black Educators
- 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM | 50 minutes
- Alix Adrien, President, Quebec Board of Black EducatorsOnline Education - The Experience of the Quebec Board ...
- Keynote
- Session 5B: Education Rights and the Law
- 1:50 PM - 2:40 PM | 50 minutes
- Moderator: Sylvia Martin-Laforge, Director General, Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN)
- Talk
- Session 5A: Current Education Research: Experiences of Black students, LCEEQ Accompaniment Project
- 1:50 PM - 2:40 PM | 50 minutes
- Moderator: John Ryan, Leadership Committee for English Education in Quebec (LCEEQ)
- Talk
- Session 7 – Workshop on QUESCREN's Education Research Briefs
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Moderators: Debbie
- Workshop
- Keynote Address: Celebrating Indigenous Languages in Academia
- 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM | 50 minutes
- Manon Tremblay, Senior Director, Indigenous Directions, Concordia UniversityCele...
- Keynote

- Session 9B: Learning beyond the Classroom
- 1:50 PM - 2:40 PM | 50 minutes
- Moderator: Anthony di Mascio, Professor, School of Education, Bishop's University
- Talk
- Session 9C: Panel discussion: Are Teachers Who Teach History in English-Language Schools Key for Vitalizing English-Speaking Quebec?
- 1:50 PM - 2:40 PM | 50 minutes
- Speakers:
- Talk
- Keynote Address: The Future of Education in an Official-Language Minority Setting: Demographic Change and New Points of View
- 3:10 PM - 4:00 PM | 50 minutes
- Raymond Théberge, Commissioner of Official Languages of CanadaThe Future of Education in an Official-Language...
- Keynote
