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News
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- In-person instruction: Some classes have already returned
- 813,000 Zoom meetings: How IT Services handled the move to remote instruction
- This math lecturer developed her own open textbook—now thousands of students are using it
- Three students talk about academic integrity
- A different perspective on academic integrity
- Painting the bigger picture of academic integrity
- National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
- Reflections on Inclusion in the Classroom Week
- Fostering connection and practicing kindness
- Can you teach dance remotely?
- A student’s perspective: How two instructors created connection online
- Welcome to your new Zoom classroom
- Kevin Lam: “Students appreciate every little thing we do that shows that we care”
- Sheri Fabian: “I embraced a flexible approach”
- Sarah Johnson: “The biggest change I made was to switch to asynchronous delivery”
- Nicky Didicher: “I’m finding my job less exhilarating”
- Mark Lechner: “You have to be OK with things going sideways”
- Nienke van Houten: “They really valued my clear and upfront approach”
- How can we support remote instruction at SFU?
- Crowdmark: A more efficient way to grade student assessments
- The unexpected benefits of a shorter syllabus
- Photo gallery: Talking shop at Teaching Matters
- Watch the video: Faculty members discuss SFU's new instructor-led online course model
- Bridges and booster rockets: CEE's new senior director talks about teaching support
- Meet the Centre for Educational Excellence leadership team
- A biology instructor rethought her students’ role—and her own
- Photo gallery: SFU’s 24th Annual Spring TA/TM Day
- Photo gallery: SFU's 9th Annual Winter Warm-up
- If you build it, will they come?
- “My students didn’t look like they were having fun”: Three additions to the TA/TM Stories podcast series
- View the furniture, share your thoughts—online
- An upgraded Canvas Gradebook is coming in January
- Share your thoughts on the furniture in SFU classrooms
- DEMOfest presenter slides
- Photo gallery: 5th Annual DEMOfest
- Teamwork needs to be taught
- TA/TM Stories: Three new podcasts explore the teaching experiences of grad students
- Can it be done? A math instructor attempts to indigenize her course
- Answers to your questions about SFU's new approach to online education
- Photo gallery: The CEE Open House
- Do you know your faculty teaching fellow?
- Instructor-led online courses: How one faculty member prepared for the new model
- Photo gallery: SFU's 34th Annual Fall TA/TM Day draws a crowd
- Connecting people and crossing artificial divides: An interview with Elizabeth Elle
- Sessional instructors can now be included in online course evaluations
- Don't say this to your class—a student shares his experience
- How one lecturer is using podcasts to make course concepts more real in her online course
- Photo gallery: Rain, burgers and smiles at the 2019 President's Employee BBQ
- Five questions and answers about the creation of CEE
- A redesign made this course more engaging for students—and the instructor
- CPUTL: A graduate student describes her experience
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Bee Brigidi
Educational Consultant

Bee Brigidi
Educational Consultant
- bhennies@sfu.ca
- 778 782 9544 (temporarily out of service)
- West Mall Centre 1353
Biography
Bees are known to be hard workers, effective collaborators, and harmonious beings—and that’s who I strive to be as an educational developer at the Curriculum and Instruction Division at CEE. Besides working through EDI in terms of inclusive teaching, critical pedagogy, and anti-oppression education, I am a motherscholar, a daughter, a friend, and a huge fan of forests! My grandparents are within who I am, and every day I strive to honour them wherever they are, and in all I do.
I have a PhD in History and Indigenous Studies from University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), located in the lands of the Chumash Peoples, and I’ve worked in educational development and policymaking in higher ed and EDI for over 17 years. As a multidisciplinary scholar and educator, I’ve had the privilege to learn and unlearn from a range of experiences in communities and institutions such as the University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Community College, Quest University, McGill University, John Abbott College, among others.
Research interests
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion; Decolonizing and Indigenizing Initiatives; Critical and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies; Anti-Racist Pedagogies, Social Justice, Design Thinking and Social Innovation Labs
Recent public outreach presentations
2020 “RISING TOGETHER: Women for a Just Economy.” Cross-country Webinar Series on intersectional feminism and ways in which pandemic has disproportionately affected women and BIPOC women in care economy, hosted by Equal Pay Coalition and Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. August 2020. (Facilitator of breakout group discussion.)
2020 “Inclusion & Well-being in Online Learning Environments.” Webinar hosted by the Centre of Educational Excellence, Simon Fraser University. May 2020.
2020 “Effective Support for All Learners Using Remote Instruction.” Webinar hosted by the Centre of Educational Excellence, Simon Fraser University. April 2020.
2020 “Humanize Your Course.” Webinar hosted by the Centre of Educational Excellence, Simon Fraser University. April 2020.
2020 “Authentic Engagement in Remote Instruction: Communication, Instruction, and Tutorials.” Webinar hosted by the Centre of Educational Excellence, Simon Fraser University. April 2020.
2018 “Racial Politics and Indigenous Knowledge: Allyship Building in a University on a First Nation Land,” Critical Race Studies in Education Association Conference, University of New Mexico, May.
2017 “100 Days in 1994: The Genocide Against the Tutsi and the United Nations.” Paper, Conference: Genocide in Rwanda, organized by undergraduate students at Quest University Canada, BC.
Selected publications
2020 (upcoming). Activism in Queer Diaspora: Solidarity from Within. In: Society & Space.
2017 “Indo-Hispano Borderlands in the Americas: Entanglements, North and South” In: Ignacio Gallup-Diaz (editor). Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook, Oxford: Routledge Publisher.
2015 “Time and the Wind by dir. Jayme Monjardim,” In: Hispania, Volume 98, Number 3, September 2015, pp. 633-634.
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