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Gillian Judson, PhD

@perfinker.bsky.social

Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership Researching imagination in teaching, learning & leadership Follow: #imaginED #walkingcurriculum #getoutside #imagination #leadership

507 Followers  |  343 Following  |  102 Posts  |  Joined: 18.11.2024  |  2.1242

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Feeling super inspired by these leader-educator-researchers! They have done impactful and significant work that can make a real difference in schools. Big congrats to our MEd Leadership cohort!

24.07.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fall 2025 Courses Confirmed! - Outdoor Learning School & Store Fall 2025 Courses Confirmed Early Bird Registration now OPEN! Outdoor Learning Online Courses: October: Braiding Sweetgrass for Educators Fall Course October: A Walking Curriculum for the Early Years ...

Excited to offer the following outdoor learning course this Fall: A Walking Curriculum for the Early Years πŸŒΏπŸƒ
Peruse all the offerings and register here:
outdoorlearning.com/2025/06/24/f...
#walkingcurriculum #getoutside @michellemckay.bsky.social @mskred.bsky.social

25.06.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oh, the places she'll go πŸ’• #grad2025

13.06.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Haha! So true!

26.05.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Calling all BC/lower mainland educators!
Thinking of some GRADUATE STUDIES in Education? Join us for this OPEN HOUSE. Get SNACKS, info and door prizes!
SFU Surrey campus * May 29 * 4:30-6:30

14.05.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Interested in taking your work in education to the next level?
Find out about the K12 Ldership MEd at SFU. Join our team to learn how imagination drives transformative change and what tools you can use to make a difference!
Info session SOON!
@sfueducation.bsky.social
events.sfu.ca/event/44596-....

13.05.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Remembering Kieran Egan today. To the world, a great educational thinker, and writer. To me, also, a mentor and dear friend. Honoured everyday to share his great ideas in education.
(May 22, 1940 - May 12, 2022)

12.05.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great day at the #OLconference25

10.05.2025 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So grateful for my learning and exploring in Banff at the #OLconference25 @beverleybunker.bsky.social @roomtoplay.bsky.social

10.05.2025 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And it begins! #OLConference25 Banff, you never disappoint. Excited about next few days of learning!
@roomtoplay.bsky.social @wildlearning.bsky.social

08.05.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is cool!

An invitation to young people (18 to 29 years old) to share a transformative story of how we can live and thrive together with Nature.

Get info and participate: nbracer.eu/voices-of-th... #imaginED

05.05.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sweet. See ya there. Yes!

04.05.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm heading to beautiful Banff this week for the Outdoor Learning Conference and I couldn't be more excited!
takemeoutside.ca/conference/
If you want to go next year, sign up quickly! It sells out FAST

04.05.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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How can we engage minds online? IE has the tools. By Brandon Hendrickson Β  All of a sudden, tens of millions of teachers around the globe are facing the same problem:Β  Β  How do we engage students’ whole minds β€”through a spotty internet c…

Use tools of imagination--what we call cognitive tools in Imaginative Education circles--to engage minds in on-line learning
Thank you Brandon Hendrickson! @scienceisweird.bsky.social
www.educationthatinspires.ca/2020/05/26/h... #imaginED

04.05.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Imaginative Education: Teaching That Connects the Head and the Heart This article was written for a graduate seminar and shaped as a fictional magazine interview. By Jennie Allester Harvey (SFU MEd student in Imaginative Education and elementaryΒ school teacher in No…

Connecting the head and the heart in education--the power of imagination
By @sfueducation.bsky.social alum Jennie Allester Harvey
www.educationthatinspires.ca/2022/02/25/i...
#imaginED

04.05.2025 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hear From Teachers: Walking Curriculum Stories By Michelle McKay Michelle McKay is a PhD student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto) in Curriculum and Pedagogy and is a teacher with the Peel District School…

Thanks @michellemckay.bsky.social and these PEEL teachers for sharing!
www.educationthatinspires.ca/2020/11/09/h...
#walkingcurriculum #imaginED

26.04.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Research Since the early 1970s educators in many countries have been responding to Imaginative Education (IE) in various waysβ€”reviewing, critiquing, implementing, researching. The research on IE is diverse,…

www.educationthatinspires.ca/research/ Check out these research projects--how Imaginative Education, cognitive tools and kinds of understanding are engaging learners and cultivating imagination K-12

26.04.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for the share! Great walking weather :)

26.04.2025 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Walkshop With Teachers: Cross-Curricular Walking Activities For High School Students This past week I spent a super day with the staff at North Surrey Secondary SchoolΒ (B.C., Canada) investigating various aspects of student engagement. In the afternoon we focused on the Walking Cur…

www.educationthatinspires.ca/2017/09/02/a...

Cross-curricular walking activities for secondary that can help shape units. Thx @perfinker.bsky.social !

26.04.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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All NEW edition of Creativity Matters now available.
Honoured to contribute my work on using digital collage in my research...enjoy!
A great collaboration between the Atlantic Centre for Creativity and the Canadian Network for Imagination and Creativity #imaginED
drive.google.com/file/d/1D9s1...

22.04.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy Easter 🐣 🐰 today was super nice πŸ’•

21.04.2025 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Re-imagining Schooling: A Problem of Design
cultivateimagination.ca/2024/04/09/r...
from the Cultivate Imagination podcast/blog project
#imaginED

15.04.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Educating imaginative leaders - CIRCE SFU A range of leadership processes, practices, and capacities find their roots in imagination. Among these, we might include: What tools […]

circe-sfu.ca/educating-im... #imaginED
Leadership capacities rooted in imagination and tools for growth #imaginED

13.04.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Strong Sentences The 53rd in the Egan Pattern Language

Egan insights, Imaginative Ed in action. More from @scienceisweird.bsky.social
Strong Sentences open.substack.com/pub/losttool...

13.04.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Playing In The Fields Of Mars By Jailson Lima (Chemistry Professor, Vanier College, Montreal, QC, Canada) Playfulness isΒ crucialΒ in setting the mood for exploring creativity and imagination. In my History of Science course (whi…

www.educationthatinspires.ca/2017/05/09/p...

12.04.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Imaginative Ed (IE) shapes topics into narrative or story-form in orderΒ to evoke emotion. employsΒ powerful imagery, humour, and bodily engagement. reveals the extremes, limits,Β and mind-boggling aspects of reality. ev…

www.educationthatinspires.ca/imaginative-....

12.04.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Absolutely awesome learning experience here with the 4 Seasons of Indigenous Learning course series. Join me! Early bird registration now open: outdoorlearning.com/4-seasons/
@outdoorlearningjd.bsky.social @sfueducation.bsky.social

09.04.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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the word alert is in a purple circle ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle

We've been hacked!
AUTHORIZED sites for Imaginative Education projects/work/community are imaginED (www.educationthatinspires.ca) and CIRCE (www.circe-sfu.ca).

NOT ierg.ca or circesfu.ca

We are working to remove these UNauthorized and fraudulent sites. UGH.

08.04.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cultivating Imaginative Education in South Tyrol - CIRCE SFU Report of a visit to South Tyrol by two CIRCE researchers, hosted by MultiLab, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen.

Read about our adventures teaching and learning in Bressanone, Bolzano and Bologna with the @unibz.bsky.social Multilab team!
circe-sfu.ca/cultivating-...

03.04.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum - Outdoor Learning School & Store Scroll Down to Register FREE 60 min Virtual Workshop on Tuesday, April 22 at 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern Time With Simon Beames,Heidi Smith, Peter Higgins and Robbie Nicol Join […]

Virtual workshop hosted by Canada's Outdoor Learning School & Store. Join the fun!

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@outdoorlearningjd.bsky.social
outdoorlearning.com/event/across...

01.04.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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