GEPIC Speaker Series

Thursday, November 21, 2024

(From 5:15 to 6:15 p.m.)

Speakers:

GEPIC Speaker Series - Curtis Carmichael and Mark Daley

Curtis Carmichael

Curtis has 10+ years of experience as a certified teacher in K-12, special education, STEM, and instructional coaching. He built his own professional development training and instructional coaching business directly training 500,000+ teachers across Canada and the USA and is a doctoral researcher at Hampton University in Virginia focused on AI, Quantum Computing and Social Justice. 

Mark Daley

Mark is the Chief AI Officer at Western University and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science with cross-appointments in five other departments, The Rotman Institute of Philosophy, and The Western Institute for Neuroscience. He is also a faculty affiliate of Toronto’s Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.Mark was named in the Maclean’s magazine “Power List 2024” of the top 100 Canadians shaping the country. 


Thursday, January 30, 2025

(From 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.)

Speaker:

GEPIC Speaker Series - Dr. Andrew Campbell

Dr. Andrew Campbell

Dr. Campbell is an Assistant Professor in Leadership for Racial Justice in Education, and the Teaching and Learning Coordinator for the Master of Teaching program at the University of Toronto, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). His research and teaching focus is on issues of EDI, anti-Black racism, anti-racist pedagogy, educational leadership, 2SLGBTQIA+ Issues, and Teacher Performance Evaluation.

Dr. ABC is well known to the OISE community for his leadership on advancing anti-discrimination work in teacher education, and received OISE’s 2022 award for Excellence in Initial Teacher Education.


Thursday, March 27, 2025

(From 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.)

Speaker:

 

 

GEPIC Speaker Series - Alyson Schafer

Alyson Schafer

Alyson is a family counsellor and one of Canada’s most notable parenting experts. A three-time TEDx presenter — including at the inaugural TEDxKids in Belguim — Alyson has been sharing her wisdom about parenting with audiences internationally for the past decade. She is the author of three bestselling parenting books entitled Breaking the Good Mom Myth, Honey, I Wrecked the Kids, and Ain’t Misbehavin.

Alyson is a go-to expert for the media when family issues hit the news, and the resident parenting expert on
The Morning Show and Global News Morning. She’s also the creator and host of the television program The Parenting
Show, and the podcast, Parenting the Adlerian Way.