Dr. Phil McRae & Dr. Bonnie Stelmach - Alberta School Leadership Within the Teaching Profession 2019

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In this episode we feature an interview that highlights the current state of school leadership in Alberta. Dr. Bonnie Stelmach and Dr. Phil McRae speak to us about the recently published report entitled “Alberta School Leadership Within the Teacher Profession 2019”. This research outlines some areas of success and difficulty for school leaders in Alberta. It also identifies some questions regarding the work of school leaders that need to continue to be investigated.

You can get a copy of the report from the Alberta Teachers’ Association Website.

Dr. Phil McRae is Executive Staff Officer and Associate Coordinator, Government-Research with the Alberta Teachers’ Association. Phil has worked in many secondary and post-secondary educational contexts while living and teaching in the Middle East (United Arab Emirates), Asia (Japan), Europe (Spain), and in Alberta, Canada with the Lethbridge Public School District and at Red Crow College with the Blood Tribe (Kainai First Nation). Phil is the past winner of the Alberta Excellence in Teaching Finalist Award, the University of Alberta’s Queen Elizabeth II Doctoral Scholar Award, Minister of Education's Innovation Award, and the ATA Provincial Educational Research Award.

Dr. Bonnie Stelmach is a Professor in the Faculty of Education (Educational Policy Studies) at the University of Alberta. She has been an educational researcher and university instructor since 2006, first at the University of Saskatchewan, and now at the University of Alberta. She has examined parents’ roles in education at the post-secondary level. Her current research is moving toward an examination of school “community”. In particular, she is contemplating the discourses that shape the notion of “school community” in light of diversification of families, trends toward radical individualism, and boundary shifting.

Here is our conversation with Dr. Bonnie Stelmach and Dr. Phil McRae.