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
Wednesday 3 November, 2021
Welcome remarks:Lorraine O'Donnell, Research Associate, QUESCREN; Affiliate Assistant Professor, School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia UniversityWilliam Floch, Assistant Secretary, Secrétariat aux relations avec les Québécois d'expression anglaise Opening Keynote AddressModerator: Brian Lewis,...
Moderator: Richard Schmid, Professor, Education, Concordia UniversitySpeakers:Michael Canuel, CEO, Leading English Education and Resources Network (LEARN) "Serving the Educational Community through the 2020s"
Thursday 4 November, 2021
Alix Adrien, President, Quebec Board of Black EducatorsOnline Education - The Experience of the Quebec Board of Black EducatorsIn 2020, at the onset of the pandemic and during the lockdown, summer programs were limited to outdoor activities. The QBBE promptly transitioned its established onsite Da Costa Hall summer school program to an online platform. At the beginning of the subsequent school year, the distance learning initiative ...
Moderator: Sylvia Martin-Laforge, Director General, Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN)Speakers:Richard Bourhis, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, UQAM"On the Planned Declin...
Moderator: John Ryan, Leadership Committee for English Education in Quebec (LCEEQ)Speakers:Tya Collins, PhD Candidate, Université de Montréal "Experiences of English-Speaking Youth at the Intersections of Bla...
Friday 5 November, 2021
Moderators: Debbie Horrocks, Director, The Leading English Education and Resource Network (LEARN)Emma Legault, Assistant Director, The Leading English Education and Resource Network (LEARN) This virtual int...
Manon Tremblay, Senior Director, Indigenous Directions, Concordia UniversityCelebrating Indigenous Languages in AcademiaAs post-secondary institutions seek to reconcile with Indigenous peoples and decolonize the academy, Indigenous languages are afforded very little attention. Universities can play a key role in fostering a ...
Moderator: Anthony di Mascio, Professor, School of Education, Bishop's University Speakers:Gary Purcell, Project Coordinator, The Suspicious Fish Creative Literacy Organization
Speakers: Paul Zanazanian, Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University Sabrina Moisan, Faculté d'éducation, Université de Sherbrooke
Raymond Théberge, Commissioner of Official Languages of CanadaThe Future of Education in an Official-Language Minority Setting: Demographic Change and New Points of ViewCanada’s demographic landscape is in constant evolution; it is also very different than what it was half a century ago, when the Official Languages Act was first adopted. Our population is becoming increasingly diver...
