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SHIFT 2025: How FESA’s Professional Development Conference Helped Future Educators Reimagine the Classroom

This past November, the Faculty of Education Students’ Association (FESA) hosted its annual Professional Development Conference, this year, titled SHIFT 2025, bringing together teacher candidates, faculty, and education professionals from across the GTA for a powerful day of learning, dialogue, and connection. Designed around the idea that education is constantly evolving, SHIFT challenged future educators […]

Following 50 years of Canadian life

York University researchers have captured half a century of Canadian life in a landmark study that began in Ontario classrooms and now spans generations.

Fighting food insecurity from afar

From York U to making a national impact, alumna Pamela Farrell (BEd '07) is now an assistant professor at the University of Calgary and the founder of GROW, Canada's first community food literacy centre in Niagara Falls.

Charles Hopkins Honoured with the Order of Canada

Charles A. Hopkins, an internationally recognized pioneer in education for sustainable development and the inaugural holder of the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education Towards Sustainability at York University, has been named a Member of the Order of Canada.

York U educator wins national award for advancing equity in teaching

Emily Burgis, a visiting professor in the Faculty of Education, is one of four educators across Canada to earn the Rita L. Irwin Award for her leadership in art pedagogy.

York Massey fellow to study youth, digital technology and identity

How can young people learn from their experiences and reshape who they are in a digital world that never forgets?–That question will guide York University education scholar Mario Di Paolantonio’s research as a York Massey Fellow at the University of Toronto for the 2025-26 academic year.

York’s Y2 Innovators program builds confidence, community for Black students

Written by Alex Huls (YFile July 25, 2025) It all began with one day. In 2022, Black high school students from the York Region District School Board (YRDSB) were invited by York University’s Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora to the Keele Campus to take part in “A Day at York.” The event was designed […]

Celebrating Excellence in Research and Teaching

The Faculty of Education is proud to honour two exceptional faculty members whose contributions to research and graduate education continue to shape our community in profound ways.

From crisis to prevention: York U leads shift in approach to homelessness

For more than a decade, Professor Stephen Gaetz and the York-based Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH), which he directs, have pushed to create a shift in how to approach modern homelessness. They’ve succeeded.

From York University to the World: An Alumna's Journey to Career Opportunities in Education

From Canada's lush landscapes to the historic lecture halls of Freiburg, Germany, Sarah Weston's (BEd ’13) academic path embodies the transformative essence of York University's international exchange experience.