Acknowledgements
This work has been in collaboration with educators across British Columbia acting as an informal network to make change. Lifting up their work and funds of knowledge to celebrate the innovation and creativity of communities, educators, scholars and school districts.
Under the guidance of Dr. Leyton Schnellert, this website and content were created with support from a number of sources: The BC Ministry of Education and Child Care, UBC’s Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund, Inclusion BC, The Community Living Society, The Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship, UBC’s Community-University Engagement Support Fund, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and The Vancouver Foundation.
We would like to acknowledge the Rural Education Advisory, the UBC Rural & Remote Teacher Education, the West Kootenay Teacher Education Program and the Edith Lando Virtual Learning Centre (EVLC).
Contacts
Leyton Schnellert, PhD
Co-Director, Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship
leyton.schnellert@ubc.ca
Dr. Leyton Schnellert is an Associate Professor in UBC’s Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy, the Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship and the former Eleanor Rix Professor of Rural Teacher Education (2018-2024). His scholarship attends to how teachers and teaching and learners and learning can mindfully embrace student diversity and inclusive education.
As the Pedagogy and Participation research cluster lead in UBC’s Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) and co-chair of BC’s Rural Education Advisory, his community-based collaborative work contributes a counterargument to top-down approaches that operate from deficit models, instead drawing from communities’ funds of knowledge to build participatory, place-conscious, and culturally sustaining practices.
Dr. Schnellert has been a middle and secondary school classroom teacher and a learning resource teacher K-12. His books, films, and research articles are widely referenced in local, national, and international contexts. For a list of his publications and presentations, please visit his bio on the EDCP UBC Website.
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