Avis Glaze

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Presentations

Breaking Barriers: Excellence and Equity for All
Education is the ultimate tool of empowerment. The true measure of equity is how students succeed in school. Equity of outcomes for all students is the goal. An intentional approach to closing achievement gaps allows educators to deliver on the promise of diversity. Ensuring that all students achieve at high levels must be our shared goal.

Student Achievement
All across the globe governments are focussing on improving student learning and achievement. Young people must be educated to a higher level in order to enhance their life chances and if their countries are to remain competitive. Providing education of the highest quality for all students has become an national imperative

International Education
As educators and policy makers strive to improve their education systems, they look elsewhere to learn about and to learn from others. They want to implement the high impact strategies that are working in other jurisdictions and that are transferrable to their own settings.  They want international comparability in an effort to be on the leading edge of educational practice and thought.

Equity and Diversity

Character and Citizenship development

Interpersonal Skills Development

Summary Profile

Dr. Avis Glaze has had a distinguished career at the senior levels of education. She has served as Ontario's Education Commissioner and Senior Adviser to the Minister of Education.  She was Ontario's first Chief Student Achievement Officer and founding CEO of the Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat, achieving significant student achievement results. A highly respected leader and mentor to many educators, Dr. Glaze has worked in several school districts, both rural and urban, and has been a supervisory officer and director of education in both public and catholic school boards. She knows education systems across the world firsthand and has been asked to work with educators in many countries.

Dr. Glaze has extensive experience in system and school improvement.  She was sent to South Africa by the Canadian government to assist with education reform and national reconstruction. She has been a classroom teacher, special education teacher, guidance counsellor, administrator and a faculty of education professor. As a tireless advocate for equity of outcomes for all students, she has won numerous awards for her outstanding contribution to education, including the Order of Ontario.

Client Testimonials

"Avis Glaze is one of the most unique and powerful voices in character education. Her broad record of experience at the classroom, school, board, and provincial level is unparalleled and when combined with her impressive grace, eloquence, and intelligence produces a valuable and transformative speaker for educators about both the academic and character goals of all education."

Professor of Character Education, University of Missouri-St. Louis