In this Issue

Spotlight on Research 2

Upcoming Conferences 5

Recent Graduates 6

Clinic Refurbishing 6

Chatter that Matters 7

Faculty Fun 8

EGSS Activities 9

Final Thoughts 10

DIALOGUES

Welcome to DialoguesSPRING EDITION OF OUR DEPARTMENTAL NEWSLETTER

A belated Happy New Year to all. As we began 2016 our faculty, graduate students and alumni have remained as producti ve and acti ve as ever. Our faculty members conti nue to apply for new grants and research funding, publish their work in peer-reviewed journals and present their fi ndings at both nati onal and internati onal conferences. Our graduate students have similarly been quite acti ve, completi ng theses and dissertati ons, publishing a large number of research studies and conti nuing to present their research at a variety of scienti fi c conferences. Most of these papers and presentati ons are made available on faculty and research group websites.

The Department began recruiti ng two new faculty members for the Counselling Psychology program and hopes to complete the hiring process in the very near future. Stay tuned for these new terrifi c appointments.

We recently completed our off ers for admissions to our graduate programs and are most pleased to fi nd a strong group of potenti al students. The incoming student body is energized and will certainly conti nue to be strong and producti ve. Since the fall, a number of outstanding lectures and research symposia were sponsored by the department. We are most pleased to welcome Dr. Élise Lavoué, Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France), LIRIS laboratory, as a Visiti ng Professor.

Enrollment has begun for the School Psychology Summer Insti tute which will bring scholars and clinicians throughout North America to McGill.

We look forward to a great 2016. The editorial staff of Dialogues welcomes all news items and your feedback. Please keep in touch and enjoy!

Jeff rey L. Derevensky, Ph.D.Chair and ProfessorDepartment of Educati onal and Counselling Psychology

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In this edition, the research of Dr. Bertone is featured. Dr. Bertone has sought to defi ne the neural underpinnings of sensory differences in autism and related conditions.

I t started during an undergraduate Sensati on and Percepti on class when a curious psychology student was exposed to rudimentary explanati ons of how our sensory systems create personalized, internal representati ons of a shared external

world. He was amazed at how these systems seamlessly transform the physical energies of our environment into veridical experiences upon which we base our behaviours. This formati ve classroom scene was all it took for Dr. Armando Bertone to initi ate a career-long research interest in the interplay between percepti on, cogniti on and behaviour throughout typical and atypical development. Over the last ten years, Dr. Bertone has worked to understand sensory-related abiliti es across various neurodevelopmental conditi ons. This knowledge has been applied towards developing research programs that address important questi ons in the fi elds of school psychology, developmental psychology, cogniti ve neuroscience, and clinical neuropsychology.

Dr. Armando Bertone is a William Dawson Scholar and Assistant Professor in the Department of Educati onal and Counselling Psychology at McGill University. He honed his research skills as a Master’s student in Experimental Psychology at Concordia University, where he trained as a visual psychophysicist and studied the basic mechanisms underlying visual moti on percepti on. Dr. Bertone went on to complete a doctoral degree in Clinical Neuropsychology at l’Université de Montréal. During this ti me, he used his knowledge of basic sensory mechanisms to defi ne and understand sensory-based strengths and challenges in children and adolescents with auti sm and fragile-x syndrome. Dr. Bertone is currently the director of the Perceptual Neuroscience Lab (PNLab.ca) for Auti sm and Development, where he leads both laboratory and school-based research programs, defi ned by the multi disciplinary integrati on of basic and applied

research. The long-term aim of this work is to improve the effi cacy of existi ng cogniti ve and behavioural interventi ons in auti sm and other neurodevelopmental (e.g., learning, ADHD) conditi ons.

Dr. Bertone’s clinical training has greatly infl uenced how he approaches research. For example, as a neuropsychologist he was trained to defi ne a pati ent’s cogniti ve profi le as part of a neuropsychological assessment, using performances on cogniti ve tests that targeted specifi c domains of functi oning (e.g., language, executi ve functi oning etc.). Drawing upon this clinical approach, Dr. Bertone sought to defi ne the neural underpinnings of sensory diff erences in auti sm and related conditi ons. He did so using simple tasks that target specifi c domains of sensory abiliti es, which he coined perceptual profi les. He demonstrated that perceptual profi les are oft en conditi on-specifi c and therefore, can be used to dissociate the neural eti ologies of diff erent pati ent populati ons, even when they share similar behavioural symptomology. In essence, he was able to diff erenti ate two conditi ons based on their perceptual profi les, and forward hypotheses specifi c to each populati on. The two seminal papers outlining these profi les have been cited hundreds of ti mes and have been very infl uenti al in the fi eld of clinical neuroscience.

Building on this foundati onal work, Dr. Bertone has refi ned his hypotheses using behavioural and imaging approaches. Recently published studies from Dr. Bertone’s group have shown that adolescents and adults with auti sm are more sensiti ve to detailed visual informati on. For example, individuals with ASD are bett er able to detect the fi ner lines on the right side of this fi gure than typically developing individuals.

This type of informati on is very simple and non-social in nature. One may ask: why is this important? In order to understand the origin of sensory diff erences in auti sm and how they are related to social diffi culti es, it is important to assess how informati on is processed at its earliest stages. If the most basic visual informati on is processed atypically, this will eff ect higher-levels percepti on more closely associated with behaviour.

One such example of higher-level percepti on is face percepti on. Not surprisingly, the manner with which individuals with auti sm perceive faces and emoti ons is one of the most densely researched areas in auti sm. This interest stems largely from the fact that auti sm is characterized by social and communicati ve impairments. Given the atypical sensory issues previously menti oned, the questi on then

Making Sense of Sensations: How do Perception and Cognition Influence Behaviour?

Spotlight on Research

Dr. Bertone’s Lab Team

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becomes: Is atypical face percepti on – used as a visual metric for socio-communicati ve abiliti es in auti sm - a refl ecti on of altered

socio-communicati ve behaviour in auti sm, or does it have a non-social, perceptual origin? Dr. Bertone’s lab has started to answer this questi on, showing that altered face percepti on has an early sensory, rather than social origin in adolescents and adults. However, it remains unclear whether this associati on is present earlier in development. In fact, this is considered to be a very signifi cant void in the literature.

Dr. Bertone and his team were awarded a CIHR operati ng grant to specifi cally address this research questi on within a developmental context. A variety of methods (e.g., eye-tracking, electrophysiology, behavioural, clinical, etc.) will be used to defi ne the developmental trajectories of elementary and social sensory abiliti es in children with auti sm from the age of 4 through 15 years. Using an accelerated longitudinal design, Dr. Bertone’s team will be able to assess whether temporal associati ons between basic and social informati on processing exist throughout development. This will allow his group to address whether social diffi culti es originate from the altered development of basic informati on processing, assess how and when basic sensory and social abiliti es deviate from those typically developing children, and if these deviati ons are related to cogniti ve and/or clinical profi les at diff erent periods of development. Knowledge gained from this research program will have major clinical consequences, as it will be incorporated into existi ng cogniti ve and behavioural interventi ons and used to develop new methods that target perceptual strengths and c h a l l e n g e s . Furthermore, it will provide criti cal informati on to determine whether there is a true link between basic sensory

abiliti es and atypical social cogniti on and behaviour in auti sm. If this is the case, interventi ons could target sensory abiliti es (i.e., perceptual learning techniques, multi -modal learning, etc.) rather than focusing solely on social behaviour, such as eye-gaze or emoti on recogniti on. The importance for understanding and recognizing auti sm’s non-social sensory behaviour has recently been refl ected by the increased weight put on non-social diagnosti c criteria in the recently published DSM 5.

Since his appointment, Dr. Bertone had developed a research program that extended the PNLab’s experimental and clinical experti se into educati onal setti ngs. Aft er numerous meeti ngs with stakeholders, school administrators, professionals and teachers, similar concerns kept surfacing: att enti on, concentrati on and self-regulation. Staying on-task during classroom activities was a concern shared by all, particularly for children with developmental and/or behavioural issues. Undeniably, the ability to focus on material for even brief periods of ti me plays a

crucial role in a student’s ability to absorb classroom material and

incorporate this knowledge during learning. In the

modern-day classroom, students must

maintain their att enti on long

enough for information to become i n t e g ra t e d in their l e a r n i n g p r o c e s s , while at the same ti me distr ibuting

their att enti on to the multi ple

components of the lesson plan

itself. The modern classroom is truly a

dynamic environment where students must keep up

with the fl ow of informati on being presented to them.

Many computer-based training programs are presently available to train att enti on in children, adolescents and adults with or without att enti on diffi culti es. However, Dr. Bertone and his team have learned that cogniti ve

remediati on programs geared towards children with special needs need to be

targeted, accessible and adaptable. With this in mind, the PNLab has been using

an adapted Multi ple Object Tracking (MOT)

Spotlight on Research

Dr. Bertone and a par cipant comple ng the Block Design test, part of an IQ test ba ery commonly

used in educa onal se ngs. The par cipant is asked to rearrange three-dimensional blocks to match a

two-dimensional visual pa ern.

Par cipant comple ng the NeuroTracker task. Slightly disparate images are presented to either eye via a head-mounted display, and fused by the visual brain resul ng in the percep on of spheres moving

in three dimensions.

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Spotlight on Research

called NeuroTracker. As seen in the fi gure, children are asked to follow or track a set of moving spheres among others moving within a three-dimensional space. It is specifi cally designed to target the main components of att enti on: selecti ve, sustained, distributed, and dynamic. The task is also accessible to children of diff erent a g e s and developmental levels, as it is simple and intuiti ve. In additi on, the task and training schedule can be adapted to the child’s ability to maximize their progress and moti vati on. Finally, the N e u r o T r a c k e r diff ers from other approaches because it is non-verbal in nature and purely sensory-based. Importantly, it is a task that does not involve any social pretence, which is advantageous when working with children with language, cogniti ve and especially, socio-communicati ve challenges, as is the case with auti sm.

The PNLab is conducti ng this research in partnership with two schools. The fi rst is Summit School, a Montreal-based school that provides services to students with special needs. The second school is l’École Samuel de Champlain, a mainstream public high school in the Quebec City region that also provides specialized services to students with

language and learning disorders. The fi rst objecti ve of Dr. Bertone’s research program is to assess whether in-classroom training and improvement on the MOT task results in improved performance on other tests of att enti on, a result referred to as near-transfer. Indeed, results reveal that 5-10 minutes of in-classroom training 4 ti mes a week results in near-transfer for a majority of children. Dr. Bertone and his research team are now assessing whether such improved abiliti es result in improvements on academic performance, such as math skills, language abiliti es and self-regulatory

behaviours. In additi on, the effi cacy of the interventi on is

being assessed for children with diff erent strengths

and challenges, including students with ADHD, specifi c learning conditi ons, developmental delay and auti sm.

In conclusion, the PNLab would like to

thank the administrators and staff at both Summit

School and l’École Samuel de Champlain for their unwavering

support. They have been extremely generous with their ti me, energy and knowledge. We are also grateful to all parti cipati ng children and families for making this research possible, and most importantly, enjoyable.

Par cipant using NeuroTracker

Publication Highlights• Morin, K., Guy, J., Habak, C., Wilson, H.R., Pagani, L., Mott ron, L., & Bertone, A. (2015). Atypical face percepti on in auti sm: A point

of view? Au sm Research, 8, 497-506.

• Kéïta, L., Guy, J., Berthiaume, C., Mott ron, L., & Bertone, A. (2014). An early origin for detailed percepti on in Auti sm Spectrum Disorder: Biased sensiti vity for high-spati al frequency informati on. Scien fi c Reports, 4, 475.

• Charbonneau, G., Bertone, A., Lassonde, M., Nassim, M., Lepore, F., A Mott ron, L., & Collignon, O. (2013). Multi -level defi cits in the multi sensory processing of dynamic emoti on expression in Auti sm Spectrum Disorders. Neuropsychologia, 51, 1001-1010.

• Bertone, A., Hanck, J., Kogan, C.S., Chaudhuri, A., & Cornish, K.M. (2010). Using perceptual signatures to link genotype with neural alterati ons in Auti sm Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and fragile x syndrome (FXS). Journal of Au sm and Developmental Disorders, 40, 1531-1540.

Dr. Bertone with the team from L’École Samuel de Champlain

DrD BBertone iwithh thhe tea fm from L’L’ÉÉÉcolle SSam luel’’

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Upcoming ConferencesM I L E S T O N E P E E R - R E V I E W E D C O N F E R E N C E

EGSS PRESENTS:

15 th

ANNUAL

EGSS CONFERENCE

MARCH 31 APRIL 1

PROMOTION PREVENTION & INTERVENTION

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

FEBUARY 15TH, 2016

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Sara King

Mount Saint Vincent University

Interventions for children with chronic pain

Dr. Patricia Longmuir University of Ottawa

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The Canadian Assessment of Physical Literacy

For more information visit us: www.egss2016.wordpress.com Follow on Twitter: @EGSS2016

EGSS Conference - March 31-April 1, 2016

The Educati on Graduate Student Society (EGSS) is excited to host its 15th annual Conference on March 31 and April 1, 2016. Every year, EGSS organizes an academic conference for graduate students, providing them with the opportunity to collaborate, share and express their research, while gaining recogniti on amongst experts in the fi eld. This year’s milestone conference is centered on Promoti on, Preventi on and Interventi on: Small Changes Towards Healthy Living and Learning. The two keynote speakers for the conference are Dr. Patricia Longmuir from the University of Ott awa and Dr. Sarah King from Mount Saint Vincent University. Dr. Longmuir’s research seeks to prevent and treat disease and disability in children through physical acti vity parti cipati on and engagement. Dr. King focuses on investi gati ng social functi on in children with behaviour disorders and chronic illness/pain, looking at ADHD and aggressive behaviours, and lastly, examining the eff ects of evaluati on and interventi on on intricate learning in additi on to behavioural disorders. For more informati on, visit: htt ps://egss2016.wordpress.com/.

Summer Ins tute - June 16-17, 2016

The Summer Insti tute, an initi ati ve of the School/Applied Child Psychology Program’s students and faculty, aims to off er a superior professional development experience for school psychologists, graduate students, educators, educati onal policy makers, counsellors, clinical psychologists, social workers, and other related personnel from across North America.

The two-day conference will be held at McGill University on June 16 -17, 2016. The conference program features workshops by Jerome M. Satt ler, Ph.D. (San Diego State University) and Peter K. Isquith, Ph.D. (Dartmouth College) as well as by departmental faculty members including Dr. Steven Shaw and Dr. Tara Flanagan. This is an excellent opportunity for the community to network with fellow professionals and academics in the fi elds of school psychology and educati on. Organizers hope to raise funds for the Department of Educati onal and Counselling Psychology and the School/Applied Child Psychology program. For more informati on, visit: htt p://www.mcgillschoolpsychinsti tute.com/home.html.

Human Development Conference - April 22, 2016On April 22, 2016, Human Development graduate students from our department will host the fi rst Human Development Student Research Conference. We are extremely excited to welcome Dr. William Bukowski, Professor in Concordia University’s Department of Psychology, as the conference keynote speaker. Dr. Bukowski’s research focuses on understanding how and why children’s and adolescents’ experiences with their peers aff ect their competence and well-being. This conference will showcase research in the area of human development more broadly. Undergraduate and graduate students are strongly encouraged to submit a poster for presentati on and to register for this free event! The deadline for poster submission is March 25th, 2016. A wine and cheese event will take place during the poster session of the conference. If you have any questi ons, please email the conference committ ee at hdstudentresearchconference@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you.

All are welcome to attend!

Human Development graduate stu dents from McGill University are hosting the first Human Development Student Rese arch Conference featuring Dr. William Bukowski as the ke ynote speaker. This conference showcases research in the area of human development.

Registration is free with complimentary wine and cheese during the poster session of the conference.

Friday April 22nd, 2016 - 1:00p.m. – 4:30p.m.

Thomson House Ballroom - 3650 rue McTavish, MTL, QC H3A 1Y2 To submit a poster for p resentation* (as well as register for the conference), please complete the submission form by March 25th, 2016 using the link belo w (a 250-word abstract is required): http://goo.gl/forms/balFQ24klj

*Please note that this conference is not associated with an academic journal allowing individuals to submit recently presented or submitted work for presentation.

Not interested in presenting? We hope you will still attend!!

Please complete the registration form by April 17th, 2016 using the link below: http://goo.gl/forms/IjyDHNgb5T

We look forward to seeing you there! Questions? Email us via: hdstudentresearchconference@gmail.com

Thank you to our sponsors!

Institute of Human Development and Well-Being in the Faculty of Education

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Recent Graduates

The departmental Psychoeducati onal and Counselling Clinic located in the Faculty of Educati on is slated to be renovated. Through its training acti viti es for graduate students pursuing studies in Counselling Psychology and School/Applied Child Psychology, the clinic provides low-cost psychological services to community members seeking both counselling and psychoeducati onal assessments.

While the exact ti meline of the renovati on has yet to be determined, the limited funding has been approved by the University Teaching Lab Working Group (UTLWG), administered by McGill’s Teaching and Learning Services (TLS), for an approximate budget of $350K. The primary goal of the renovati on is to introduce modern recording equipment

and a viewing system as well as to update the lighti ng components of all 12 counselling and assessment rooms. Additi onally, several of the adjacent viewing spaces (previously under-used and already

outf itt ed with one-way mirrors) will be re-appropriated for student observati on. Some of the room architectural fi nishes will be updated to ensure the space provides opti mal learning environments for many years to come.

Faculty members from School Psychology and Counselling Psychology are consulti ng on the design and requirements of the project along with Dr. Jack DeStefano, the Clinic Director, the Faculty’s Associate Dean of Infrastructure, ECP’s Dr. Alain Breuleux, Dr. Eve-Marie Quinti n, School/ Applied Psychology, and the project team of architects, designers and audio-visual specialists. The department is seeking corporate and private donati ons to augment the video recording technologies.

February 2016 GraduatesCongratulations!

Master of Arts

• Lila Lee• Ashley Reynolds• Laura Varona Prevez

Master of Education

• Jessica Vaillancourt-Furtado

• Maayan Lusti gman• Matrona Mavrakis• Oana Mircea• Alison Prendergast

Doctor of Philosoohh

• Claude Alie• Jennifer Bruce• Chao-Mei Chiang• Julia DiMillo• Alexandra Lerner• Michael Sornberger• Gregory Trevors• Renée St-Pierre• Kaori Wada

Master of Arts

• Lila Lee• Ashley Reynolds• Laura Varona Prevez

Master of Education

• Jessica Vaillancourt-Furtado

• Maayan Lusti gman• Matrona Mavrakis• Oana Mircea• Alison Prendergast

Doctor of Philosophy

• Claude Alie• Jennifer Bruce• Chao-Mei Chiang• Julia DiMillo• Alexandra Lerner• Michael Sornberger• Gregory Trevors• Renée St-Pierre• Kaori Wada

Master of Arts

and a viewing system as well as to

roject team of architects, designers and

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Professional Appointments

• Dr. Robert Savage has been elected as Vice-President of SSSR (Society for the Scienti fi c Study of Reading).

• In December, Dr. Talwar was elected a Fellow in the Associati on for Psychological Science (APS). As an APS fellow, she joins a disti nguished group of peers whose work has infl uenced the fi eld of psychological science in important and lasti ng ways.

Chatter that MattersAlumni News

Congratulati ons to the following ECP graduates on their new positi ons:• Jennifer Bruce - Psychologist at the Upper Canada

District School Board.• Colin Campbell - Psychoeducati onal Consultant at the

Ott awa-Carleton School Board (OCDSB).

Dr. Fitzpatrick’s BlogThroughout the month of February, Dr. Marilyn Fitzpatrick blogged about the place of values in psychology. Each day during the course of the month, she explored questi ons related to values in contemporary society and perspecti ves that psychologists and psychological research bring to these values. The blog can be accessed at www.medipsy.blogspot.ca.

Visiting Lecturers• Dr. Ricijas from the Faculty of Educati on and Rehabilitati on Sciences,

University of Zagreb, Croati a, was a guest of the Internati onal Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviors. Dr. Ricijas provided an informati ve lecture concerning youth gambling in Croati a and the evidence-based interventi ons currently underway.

• Dr. Reinhard Pekrun from Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich delivered a presentati on ti tled “Achievement Emoti ons: Origins, Functi ons and Educati onal Practi ces.” Dr. Pekrum discussed the relevance of these emoti ons in learning, performance, and well-being and presented his extensive research in this area.

Dr. Derevensky on PBS Frontline

Dr. Derevensky appeared on the PBS “Frontline” series regarding Daily Fantasy Sports. This interview was a compendium to a story that appeared in the New York Times in October, 2015.

Visiting ProfessorWe welcome Dr. Élise Lavoué, Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France), LIRIS laboratory, as a Visiti ng Professor. Dr. Lavoué will be working with Dr. Susanne Lajoie and her team in the Advanced Technologies for Learning in Authenti c Setti ngs laboratory.

Drs. Lavoué and Lajoie will work on the EmoViz project dedicated to the support of learners’

regulati on through the visualizati on of emoti onal informati on. This internati onal project between University of Lyon (France), McGill University and University of Geneva (Switzerland), will conduct experiments that examine the manner in which external visualizati ons support learners’ refl ecti on on their learning acti vity during and aft er an acti vity is completed. In parti cular, Dr. Lavoué is interested in the ways in which visual feedback about students’ emoti ons can help improve their learning experiences and outcomes. Dr. Lavoué’s research interests include the design of learning environments to support self-regulated learning and learners’ engagement by using interacti on traces, in the fi elds of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) and Computer Supported Collaborati ve Learning (CSCL).

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Chatter that MattersDr. Annett Körner Quoted

on Cover of Oncology ExchangeDr. Annett Körner was quoted on the cover of the November 2015 issue of Oncology Exchange.The publicati on ti tled, “Early detecti on of melanoma in high-risk individuals: The role of partner assistance and physician support of skin self-examinati on,” was authored with three of her doctoral students and a librarian.

The complete reference: Körner, A., DiMillo, J., Czajkowska, Z., Coroiu, A., & Canuel, R. (2015). Early detecti on of melanoma in high-risk individuals: The role of partner assistance and physician support of skin self-examinati on. Oncology Exchange, 14(4), 11-12.

Dr. Sue Lajoie’s work regarding learning through the use of technology was highlighted in Hill Times, a Canadian weekly newspaper that covers the federal government and politi cs. The arti cle discussed how she and her students are working to discover ways that new learners can become more skilled in areas like science, stati sti cs and medicine. “Technology can provide rich learning environments for problem-solving acti viti es,” she says. This understanding will ulti mately help the next generati on of workers bett er adapt to change throughout their careers.

Faculty Fun

Addison Foy - “Mad Scientist ”

Chair’s Halloween AwardThe Chair held a Halloween Costume contest for faculty, staff and their children. Judging was completed by an independent panel and the triumphant winners were “Mad Scienti st” Addison Foy (daughter of Professor Krista Muis) and “Prett y Troll” Samantha Ryan (Administrati ve Offi cer).

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Dr. Lajoie’s Work Featured in Hill Times

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Education Graduate Student Society

Trivia NightOn February 19, 2016, EGSS hosted a Trivia Night to raise funds for their upcoming conference. Questi ons surrounded topics including Harry Pott er, Geography, “Friends”, Entertainment, and Sports. Competi ti on was fi erce and much fun was had by all who att ended. For more informati on regarding the EGSS conference, please see Page 5.

Christmas Ugly Sweater PartyThe Educati on Graduate Student Society hosted an Ugly Sweater Party on Thursday November 26th, 2015 to celebrate the end of semester. The party brought together students from all departments within the Faculty of Educati on, creati ng a sense of unity between programs. ECP students were in high att endance joining in on all the Christmas festi viti es and representi ng our department well.

Speaker SeriesNew this year, the Educati on Graduate Student Society (EGSS) hosted a series of talks highlighti ng the research conducted within the Faculty. This speaker series format involved a keynote talk by a leader in the fi eld of educati on as well as presentati ons by students. This format enabled students to promote their research work and receive valuable feedback. In December, the fi rst event featured Dr. Adam Dubé from the Department of Educati onal and Counselling Psychology. The focus of the event was the use of technology in learning. Dr. Dubé presented his work on using computer-based games to facilitate and ignite learning. Prior to Dr. Dubé’s keynote talk, two students received awards and presented their research. The second event in March, Interventi ons in Health, Learning and Well-Being, featured the work of Dr. Lee Schaefer from the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Educati on. Dr. Schaefer is exploring the use of physical acti vity to foster wellness in at-risk, First Nati ons students. For more informati on, please visit the EGSS website htt ps://egssmcgill.wordpress.com/.

Triva Night Poster

Emily Stubbert and Micah Tilley

in their sweaters

March EGSS Speaker Seri

eses

December EGSS Speaker Series

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Final Thoughts

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Please stay in touch!

Brown Bag- Student Run SeminarsUpcoming speakers:• April 5: Dr. Nate Fuks will give a presentati on on

working with youth who are struggling with or exploring their sexual and/or gender identi ty. He will also speak about his involvement in the Argyle Pride Team.

Upcoming ConferencesThe following conferences are upcoming:• EGSS 15th Annual Conference: March 31 - April 1, 2016• Human Development Conference: April 22, 2016• Summer Insti tute: June 16 - 17, 2016

Speaker SeriesThe faculty is organizing a speaker series designed for parents and the general public in the Fall 2016. Stay tuned for more informati on about this amazing series.

Upcoming Events

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