Crosscurrents 2022 Online
Dr. Jennifer Katz
Mental Health & Literacy: The Hidden Connection
Mental Health & Literacy: The Hidden Connection
Literacy instruction is one of the biggest challenges of inclusive education in the 21st century. It has the potential to negatively impact student well-being (e.g., self-concept, trauma), or to provide healing both intrapersonally and collectively (e.g., anti-racism). Universally designed literacy instruction has been shown to support ALL learners’ achievement. In this interactive session, Dr. Katz shares two key concepts and two key strategies for literacy instruction in every subject K-12 (Yes, math too!), including video clips demonstrating these practices in early, middle, and senior years classrooms.
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Dr. Katz received her PhD in Educational Psychology and Inclusive Education from the University of British Columbia in 2008. She is the author of "Teaching to Diversity: The Three Block Model of Universal Design for Learning", "Resource Teachers: A Changing Role in the the Three-Block Model of UDL", and "Ensouling our Schools: A Universally Designed Framework for Mental Health, Well-Being, and Reconciliation." Dr. Katz taught in diverse classrooms from K-12 in Winnipeg and Vancouver for 16 years, in addition to working as a special education teacher, resource teacher, guidance counsellor, district coach and consultant, and associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba and currently at UBC. She has worked with Ministry of Education personnel and district and school leaders in four different countries, multiple provinces, and three states, and is currently working with the Neuroscience, Well-Being, and Education research cluster at UBC.
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