EduCulture - Karen Strang and Melanie McVeety

03/09/2025

01/28/2025

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01/27/2025

Happy Birthday Karen!

Wishing you all the joy and love today and everyday that you have brought to so many close to home and from around the world!

🎂🎉🌼💐

01/27/2025

Just for you best pal, EduCulture partner, and perfectly passionate person!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_y58NaEykk

07/28/2024

🇨🇦 Mia says, "Yay! Way to go Canadian women's soccer team!"
With Dronegate overshadowing the women's Canadian soccer team, it was so great to watch the 2-1 nail biter against France today. And ... watching it all from the lake on this extremely hot 30+ day! (Thank you streaming services and a pretty good data plan!)
Angus, Mia, and I enjoyed the game this afternoon while Mark swam in the lake.
As a former varsity athlete, I can only try to imagine the immense heartache for the women soccer athletes after all the hard work and training, and now the controversy and having six points deducted, and in a must-win game.
Great work on the pitch today and overcoming adversity with a never give up attitude! 🇨🇦

07/28/2024

With the Olympics starting on Friday, Mia was feeling patriotic and says, "go Canada go!"

05/22/2024

Communicating across cultures and cultivating meaningful collaborations to encourage positive change is what Melanie McVeety, and I (Karen Strang) from EduCulture are doing with our colleagues, James Otieno Jowi from Kenya and Chika Sehoole from South Africa.
View our joint publication “Reframing Global North-South Collaborations Through the Lenses of Aware, Connect, Empower (ACE) Principles” in the Journal of International Students.

We'd love to hear your feedback.

Go to this link to view the PDF: https://ojed.org/index.php/jis/article/view/6386/2767

05/17/2024

More from Conestoga College ...
Joined the English Language Studies & English for Academic Studies School of Interdisciplinary Studies (online)
as faculty at Conestoga College! Week 1 complete -- and such a joy! https://www.conestogac.on.ca/fulltime/english-for-academic-studies

While some may not think about the stability and comfort a full-time job brings, every year for the last 23 years I have worried over the summer whether I would have a teaching assignment when September rolled around.

Mark would always tell me not to worry, that I always found work. But ... it IS stressful and it is hard not to worry when and from where the next paycheck is coming from.

I have had ONE full-time job in my entire life! I left that full-time teaching job in Sudbury to move back home after cancer and a divorce all in the same year ... to Mom and Dad and the comforts of family. And ... I decided to stay!

I am so grateful for all of the teaching experiences I've had -- even the tough ones! Those work and life experiences have brought me here - to a wonderful home on the lake, the kindest, most thoughtful, and most supportive spouse ever!, great friends, family - and an amazing life with so much to be grateful for.

We forget sometimes ... to say "chi-miigwetch" for all we have. There are so many others in the world suffering ... and those who come to Canada to seek a better life. We complain about the smallest things living in such a rich and safe country. We have that luxury.

WHICH BRINGS ME TO ... I know what I am doing this fall for work!

Although not full-time (does that even happen anymore?), I have been asked to join as faculty in Conestoga College's English Studies Program - with some much-needed stability! This means I am teaching newcomers to Canada - my first love in teaching!

Not only am I currently teaching in the summer Program, but have been asked to teach again in the Fall! YAY!

As the sun shines, and we head into the long weekend, I just felt compelled to share my joy and say out loud how very grateful I am for all that has come to me - and especially this year!

Hoping that you can take a moment too to reflect on the good things in life! 🥰🐾😎🤣🇨🇦

05/14/2024

Join Melanie and me in celebrating Citizenship Week in Canada. It means so many things to different people. For many, Canada is a safe place with many opportunities to nurture a family and build a business. Our thoughts are with so many people whom we taught and/or mentored over the years and who are now Canadian citizens, and we wish them continuing success!

For more information about Citizenship Week, view this short video:
Welcoming new citizens into our Canadian family: Your success is our success!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZZKlxOh85I