“Raising Our Awareness of Rights” Day
Monday, December 10, École John English JMS
UN International Day for Human Rights


AGENDA

8:30-9:15 AM-Registration and Refreshments: Auditorium Foyer (Mimico Ave. Entrance)
9:15-9:30 AM-Official Welcome in Auditorium
D. Tomlin, Principal; K. Meighan, Superintendent of Education for SW1; B. Davis, TDSB Trustee, Ward 3

9:30-10:00 AM-Passages to Canada Guest Speaker: Ceta Ramkhalawansingh, Manager, Diversity Management and Community Engagement for the City of Toronto

Student Workshops

10:15-11:00AM-Workshop (A,B,C, or D-see reverse)
11:15-12:00PM-Workshop (A,B,C, or D-see reverse)

12:00-12:35PM-Pizza Lunch in Cafeteria

12:45-1:30PM-Workshop (A,B,C, or D-see reverse)
1:45-2:30PM-Workshop (A,B,C, or D-see reverse)

Teacher Workshops, Staff Lounge

10:15-12:00PM-David Stocker - Teaching Math Using Social Justice (maththatmatters)
12:45-2:30PM- TDSB Equity Instructional Leaders M. Wong & D. Ast - Understanding Bias

Closing

2:45-3:15PM-John English Auditorium

At the end of the day, students and teachers will receive a variety of educational resources!

Speaker Biographies
Passages to Canada, Ceta Ramkhalawansingh
Ceta Ramkhalawansingh is the Manager, Diversity Management and Community Engagement for the City of Toronto. This Unit is part of the Strategic and Corporate Policy Division of the Chief Administrator’s Office. The responsibility of the unit includes facilitating community access, administering a range of community advisory committees regarding access, equity and human rights, grants programs and various equity policies. Prior to this, she was the Manager, Equal Opportunity of the former City of Toronto, where she was responsible for human rights and employment equity as well as the service equity program through which the City established obligations regarding anti-discrimination requirements for civic agencies, grant recipients and suppliers of goods and services.

Student Workshops

Workshop A: Gender Equity with, Location: Rooms 204 or 303

Workshop B: Free the Children, Location:

Workshop C: Factory Theatre, Location: Auditorium

Workshop D: Steve Solomon and Homophobia, Location: Library
Steven Solomon is a school social worker with the TDSB. Alongside counseling and support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (lgbt) students, teachers, parents & families, Steven runs workshops addressing homophobia with classrooms grade 12 to kindergarten. The workshops look at issues such as name-calling, myths and stereotypes and bullying. Steven also provides social work support to the Triangle Program, Canada's only school program for LGBT students victimized by homophobia.

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