The Alberta Teachers’ Association

ANDREW PARKER and GAIL-ANN WILSON
Feature Guest Editors

MATEUSZ NAPIERALSKI
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Mateusz Napieralski is a Polish illustrator and designer currently based in Canada. With a background in graphic and motion design, he enjoys playing with geometric shapes and creating playful and bold compositions full of bright colours. While completing his studies in graphic design, Mateusz was encouraged by his course leader to explore multiple areas of visual communication, which  ultimately led him to discover and fall in love with illustration.

PAUL TWA
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Paul Twa is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Edmonton. He’s a graduate of the University of Alberta’s bachelor of design program, and his work has been recognized nationally by the Association of Registered Graphic Designers and Applied Arts. With a keen interest in history, Paul enjoys studying the visual culture of the past as a way to inform the work he is making today.

KATELYNN THEAL
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Katelynn Theal is the assistant director of comprehensive school health with Ever Active Schools. She has a master’s degree in public health and is excited about the many hats she gets to wear in her role with Ever Active Schools. A portion of her time is dedicated to supporting and co-ordinating new and innovative learning opportunities and projects to support school health and wellness using a comprehensive school health framework.

CHRIS KOHLMAN
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Chris Kohlman is an inclusive learning teacher at Margaret Wooding School in Redcliff. Besides trying to find time to play the 400 board games in his collection, he spends time with his family, is the president of a local constituency association and is involved in the Medicine Hat Astronomy Club.

MARIETTE DOBROWOLSKI
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Mariette Dobrowolski is dedicated to advancing social justice issues, faith formation and inter-religious dialogue. She sits on the executive of the ATA’s Religious and Moral Education Council and currently teaches in division three at St. Isidore Online School in Calgary. 

RAHAT ZAIDI
p. 52
Dr. Rahat Zaidi is an associate professor and chair of language and literacy in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. She received the 2020 ATA Educational Research Award for her study “Optimizing Parent–Teacher Collaboration in Refugee Children’s Learning.”

JOANNE MURPHY
p. 69

The Alberta Teachers’ Association acknowledges Treaty 6, 7 and 8 territories, the ancestral and traditional territories of the Cree, Dene, Blackfoot, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, as well as the Blackfoot Confederacy: Kainai, Piikani and Siksika, Tsuu T’ina, First Nation and Stoney Nakoda First Nation. We acknowledge the many First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples whose footsteps have marked these lands for generations. We are grateful for the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are still with us today and those who have gone before us. Our recognition of this land is an act of reconciliation and an expression of our gratitude to those on whose territory we print and distribute this publication.