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Facilitators: Chanel Tsang and Ghazal Malik
Saturday March 7, 11.30am to 1pm, 12-199 (Boardroom)

In Visualizing a Hopeful Future: A Reflective Collage-Making Workshop, Chanel Tsang and Ghazal Malik invite participants to reconsider hope as an active scholarly commitment. Rather than approaching hope as a fleeting emotion, they describe it as “a relational practice and not a passive feeling.” In moments shaped by uncertainty and unrest, they suggest that hope asks scholars to remain present with complexity while still imagining otherwise. It involves “staying with complexity and also imagining alternative futures through reflection and creativity,” transforming what is often hidden or unspoken into possibilities for insight and action. In this framing, hope becomes both method and stance, something enacted collectively through reflection and shared meaning-making.

This video highlights the seamless model used in Waterloo, where before- and after-school care is closely aligned with the core school day to create a consistent experience for children. By reducing transitions and supporting continuity across the day, children remain in familiar environments with trusted educators and peers. This approach helps create stable, responsive learning spaces that support all children while also making the day easier to navigate for families.

Day 3 of the OISE Graduate Student Research Conference (GSRC) 2026 continues the momentum with presentations that explore learning as a deeply social, cultural, and relational process. From inter-generational identity formation to community-based learning and creative approaches to equity, these sessions highlight how education extends far beyond formal classrooms and into lived experiences and collective spaces.

Facilitator: Tawnee Dulce
Friday March 6, 3pm to 4.30pm, 12-115

In Journey Through the Body: Mindfulness in Journaling, Tawnee Dulce invites participants into a writing practice that is deeply embodied, spiritual, and restorative. The workshop emerges from lived experience. Following a near-death experience in 2021 and a concussion diagnosis, Dulce found herself unable to engage in her usual routines. In that stillness, she turned to writing. What began as limitation became discovery. She describes this period as learning that she “could write myself through writing,” using the page as a space to live her experience and reconnect with sensations and feelings that had long gone unattended. Journaling, for her, became a way to “connect to myself and my body, the unspoken sensations or feelings that we all have, that we don’t, or are unable to pay attention to daily.”

Day 2 of the OISE Graduate Student Research Conference (GSRC) 2026 brings together research that challenges how we think about education, equity, and representation across global and local contexts. Among the many engaging sessions, 3 presentations stand out for their timely questions and powerful perspectives.

Excerpt: "The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) and the Government of Canada announced today the creation of 355 net new child care spaces as of September 30, 2025. As part of the Canada-Northwest Territories Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement – 2021 to 2026, the territory committed to creating 300 spaces for children ages 0-5 years. These spaces support families and job creation in Northwest Territories’ (NWT) communities while allowing parents to return to work or school knowing their children are cared for in safe, licensed environments."

Within the latest newsletter you’ll find research highlights, a powerful recap of our Summer Institute in Ghana, and updates on community initiatives grounded in justice, anti-racism, and care.

Excerpt: "Key strategic priorities of our government are: Ensuring that Islanders have access to reliable energy, advancing policies and projects that keep energy costs manageable for households and businesses, and strengthening the reliability and resilience of our grid; Ensuring responsible and transparent land ownership and land management, improving oversight and enforcement, and modernizing land‑use planning frameworks to support appropriate development while protecting agricultural land and sensitive ecosystems; Expanding access to primary care, improving wait times, and strengthening our recruitment and retention of our valued healthcare workers; Supporting Island residents and businesses in addressing affordability pressures, including food security, childcare, and housing; Approaching all decisions with aggressive financial stewardship and transparency."

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