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ED Global

Leaders supporting future leaders in education.

ED Global at York University offers a broad range of Education, Research, and Professional Learning Consulting Services.

As one of the top Faculties of Education in Canada, we are committed to empowering future generations to uncover new possibilities in the advancement of education.

We work collaboratively with bold leaders, school boards, educational organizations and diverse communities in countries and regions around the world.

Our professional team of educational and university leaders have extensive experience providing leadership, curriculum development, and training. We offer a full range of consulting services, developing and delivering custom solutions tailored to the specific needs of our clients.

ED Global has the expertise to help your organization thrive–maximizing positive change, impact and results.

Our Expertise

  • Strategic Planning
  • Curriculum Development
  • School Systems Improvement and Development Work
  • Specialists in Kindergarten to Grade 12 Education
  • School Leadership Development
  • University Leadership
  • Inclusive Education
  • Digital, Inquiry-Based and Project-Based Learning
  • Assessment and Instruction
  • Planning and Assessment for English Language Learners
  • Social and Emotional Learning 
  • Wide range of Research including Custom Research

The ED Global Advantage (Why Us?)

  • Reputable thought leadership with practical expertise 
  • Customized solutions specifically tailored to your needs 
  • Specialists in kindergarten to grade 12 education
  • Experience working with a diverse range of institutions (government, public, private, non-profit, NGOs)
  • Customized and flexible program delivery options
  • Experienced providers of over 100 professional learning courses covering a broad range of topics

Module Offerings

1. Leading and Managing

  • strategic leadership and accountability
  • leaderhip theories and styles/competencies
  • equity-based leadership
  • culture of coaching and mentoring

2. Legal Obligations & Responsibilities

  • relevant legislation (accessibility, human rights, anti-racism, etc.)
  • system infrastructure, policies & practices and school improvement planning
  • legal obligations and ethical responsibilities according legislation, policies and regulations
  • labour relations policies
  • eithical use of technology, safe schools
  • performance appraisal practices for ongoing professional learning

3. Strategic Leadership and Accountability

  • individual and systemic biases, discrimination, and barriers
  • manifestations of power and privilege
  • shared school/system vision
  • culture of demogratic citizenship and social justice responsive to the needs of the community
  • school/system performance, processes and protocols for communication 

4. Inclusive Pedagogical Leadership

  • critical pedagogy, DI UDI, experiential learning
  • individual profiles and transition plans
  • diversity, equity, advocacy and anti-oppression frameworks for inclusive cultures
  • RRI-Response to Intervention, identifying and responding to individual student needs

5. Research & Theories of Learning and Teaching

  • emerging research & trends, ocal, national, global (mental health, spec. ed, diversity)
  • educational leadership (Ontario Leadership Framework, (OLF) as an example)
  • conflict negotiation & mediation
  • data collection, management, and analysis strategies to inform school improvement planning
  • effective decision making and problem solving

6. Relationships & Partnerships

  • strategies for engaging all stakeholders
  • strategies for professional learning networks and social media contexts
  • models of effective partnerships to build relationships
  • strategies to foster a school culture promoting shared knowledge and responsibility

1. Universal Design and Differentiated Learning

  • classroom and individual student profiles

2. Digital, Inquiry – Based and Project Based Learning

  • understanding big-impact approaches and practices
  • knowing when to use them

3. Aligning Assessment and Instruction 

  • 4 areas of assessment and the triangulation of data
  • fundamental principles
  • learning goals and success criteria
  • designing a variety of assessments for different learners

4. Curriculum Mapping

  • scope and sequence
  • curriculum analysis
  • unit design
  • lesson plan design

5. International Education

  • Information coming soon…

6. Planning and Assessing for English Language Learners

  • leveraging students’ linguistic and cultural identities while strategically planning lessons focussed on curriculum learning, developing academic language proficiency and social skills
  • strategies for grouping, instructing, and using assessment data to support multilingual learners

Meet the Team

Dean Robert Savage

Robert Savage is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is a prominent figure in education, with experience across public, non-profit, and commercial sectors. He has delivered keynotes globally, appeared in multiple media outlets, and is the former President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.

Savage has led international educational consulting projects with the UK Foreign Office, British Council, UNESCO, and various universities including projects on anti-bullying, home schooling, dyslexia, visual impairment, and autism inclusion. He has also advised the Ministries of Education in the UK, Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta, and worked with non-profits like the Order de psychologues de Quebec, and the Education Endowment Foundation (UK).

  • University faculty development
  • Systems work in the science of reading and educational attainment
  • School systems work in inclusion in special education, bilingualism and language
  • Educational technologies
  • Policy development and advising
  • Statistical analysis and systems consulting including prevention
  • Educator professional development

He is currently consulting for the Education University of Hong Kong, the Ministry of Education Ontario, the Max Bell Foundation, and the University of Oslo.

Professor Lorne Foster

Lorne Foster is Full Professor, School of Public Policy & Administration, York University, Toronto. He holds the York Research Chair in Black Canadian Studies & Human Rights (Tier 1). He is the Director of the Institute for Social Research (ISR), which is the leading university-based survey research center in Canada. He has worked in conjunction with national and international governments as well as public, private and non-profit organization around inclusive education and training.

Foster has led international rights-based consulting projects with government ministries and universities in China, Japan, Indonesia and India, and various other educational institutions on projects involving curriculum design and development. He has also worked with ministries in Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Quebec on the development of anti-racism policy, and worked with non-profits like the Multicultural History Society, John Brooks Society and B’nai Brith Canada.

  • Policy development and analysis
  • Data science and data management
  • Statistical analysis and systems consulting including prevention
  • Inclusive organizational change
  • School systems work in equity, diversity and inclusion
  • Human rights policy review and consultation
Anna Jupp

Anna Jupp is the Director of Professional Learning at York University, where she leads the development and implementation of innovative educational initiatives for K-12 educators. With a strong background in teaching and program management, she has played a key role in shaping the university’s approach to continuing education for teachers in Ontario.

Anna is a member of the Ontario College of Teachers and has been instrumental in aligning professional development programs with the evolving needs of educators.

  • Curriculum design and program evaluation
  • Special education and mathematics
  • Professional development for K-12 educators
  • Collaboration with school boards and university stakeholders

Top 35 in the World

York University named as one of the world’s leading universities in the 2024 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, jumping five spots from last year.

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Top 5

Faculty of Education ranks 5th in Canada in the 2024 QS World University Rankings by Subject

Top 100

Faculty of Education ranks 66th globally in the 2024 QS World University Rankings by Subject

Top 150 in the World

The Faculty of Education ranks 126-150 (THE’s 2024 Times Higher Education Rankings)

Top 80

for Research Quality (THE’s 2024 Times Higher Education Rankings)

Top 10

The Faculty of Education has consistently been in the Top 10 schools in Canada for the last 4 years (Maclean’s 2024)

Contact us to learn more

Office of the Dean,
Faculty of Education
edglobal@edu.yorku.ca

Winters College
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
M3J1P3