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Professional Development

 Curriculum Developed for Students:

1) Language 1225 (A course for the special English needs of Deaf students)

2) Deaf Studies 1225 (A social studies course for Deaf students on Deaf identity, culture, empowerment, assistive technologies)

3) Creating Safe and Caring Communities:  Labrador City: Presentations, Keynote Speech, and lectures on anti-homophobia to junior high and high school students

 Curriculum Developed for Educators:

 1) Author of Piecing Together a Caring Community:  A Resource Book on   Dismantling Homophobia

2) The Faculty of Education (The Sociology of School Violence:  Leadership and Policy):  Video production:  School Violence:  The Impact of Homophobia

3) National Association for the Prevention of Suicide Conference

Keynote Speaker

Topic:  Suicide Among  Lesbigay Youth

4) Women's Studies Speaker Series

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Topic:  The Social Construction of Homophobia and Heterosexism in the Newfoundland High School Education System

 Past Professional Organizations:

 1) President:  Newfoundland Co-ordinating Council on Deafness

2) Co-Chair:  Canadian Association of Educators of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (CAEDHH)  National Conference 2001

3) President:  Newfoundland and Labrador Council of Educators of the Deaf (NLCED)

4) Vice-President:  Newfoundland School for the Deaf Parent Teacher Association

5) Committee Member:  Provincial Strategy Against Violence

6) Board Member:  Newfoundland-Labrador Human Rights Association

7) Committee Member:  Equity Issues in Education Committee:

Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association

8) Advisory Committee for Student Support Services:  Department of Education

9) Committee Member:  Canadian Teachers' Federation

Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Two-spirited Issues in Education

10) Committee Member:  St. John's Status of Women Council

 Other:

 1)  English 3201 Public Exam Marking Board - 2006

2)  English Interpreter/Voiceover for novel Lord of the Flies - 2007

3)  Communication Competition Co-ordinator - 2005-2007

4)  Theatre Arts Assistant - 1990 - 2007


Ann Shortall

Holy Trinity High School in Torbay, Canada