Originally posted: January 2015 Tina Storer, Education and Curriculum Specialist at Western Washington University’s Center for Canadian-American Studies, represented the Pacific Northwest National Resource Center (NRC) on Canada by joining with Northeast NRC on Canada representatives Betsy Arntzen (U Maine) and Amy Sotherden (SUNY Plattsburgh) as hosts of a display booth in “International Alley” of

Originally posted: January 2015 Ever since I attended a presentation several years ago entitled “Who Owns the Arctic?” by Nadine Fabbi, Canadian Studies Center, I have wanted to collaborate with Nadine to increase awareness of the Arctic region. This past year the perfect opportunity presented itself when I was assigned to a second and third

Originally posted: October 2014 For more than 35 years, the STUDY CANADA Summer Institute for K-12 Educators has been offered annually by the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University in collaboration with the Canadian Studies Center at the U.W. as part of our Title VI Pacific Northwest National Resource Center for the Study

Originally posted: Spring 2014 “….But we survived /so in every Country, every Province, every City/When they ask me/ Where I’m from/I tells ‘em/My Whole family tree/From the roots to the leaves/ Are Canadian history/We are The Black Scotians ” –Reed “Izreal” Jones. “The Black Scotians” in The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry (p.

Originally posted: February 2014 Michael Cawthra, a teacher associate of the K12-Study Canada Program, goes to Denver-area classrooms by telling stories that only captivate students but inform them about Canada. Dressed in costumes that change along with the renowned Canadian stories he tells, Michael relates the literature to the audience and brings the tales to life

Originally posted: December 2o13 My name is Dennis Rees and I taught 6th – 8th Grade in the Peoria Unified School District in Peoria, Arizona, for 30 years. I have had a wonderful career as a teacher focused on improving geography education in middle school classrooms. In 2007, I even received the first Grosvenor Teacher

Originally posted: October 2013 Twenty-three educators participated in Archives on the Arctic in Denver, Colorado. In June 2013, twenty-three educators gathered at Metropolitan State University of Colorado, to learn about the role of the Inuit in Canada and globally thanks to a collaborative program partnership between the Pacific Northwest National Resource on Canada and Library

Originally posted: October 2013 Diana Mackiewicz, participant in the 2012 STUDY CANADA Summer Institute for K-12 Educators, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities award to participate in the “Native Americans of New England, A Historical Overview” program. As a web design teacher and head of the Computer Department at Eagle Hill School in

At the 2012 NCSS Conference in Seattle, “Opening Windows to the World,” the National Resource Centers in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies – Canadian Studies Center, Center for Global Studies, East Asia Center, Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Middle East Center, South Asia Center, and Southeast Asia

Originally posted: July 2013 In early July 2013, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies’ National Resource Centers, in partnership with the Northwest International Education Association (NIEA), offered the 10th annual Community College Master Teacher Institute at the University of Washington on “At the Crossroads: Climate Change, the Environment, and Social Justice.” Twenty-three faculty,