Governance

John C. Moss was born in England and completed his teaching certificate at Oxford University Institute of Education. After an initial teaching assignment in London, England he moved to Manitoba, Canada where he spent 24 years as a teacher, school administrator and school superintendent. In 1992 he became superintendent of schools for School District 69 (Qualicum) on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Dr. Moss has studied at the University of Winnipeg, University of Manitoba and gained a doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy from the University of British Columbia. His dissertation: Parent Advocacy: A Private Role in a Public Institution reflects his interest in parent involvement and the tensions which exist between partners in public education.
John was an original member of the panel which toured BC in 2002-2003 and wrote the Charter for Public Education. He helped establish The Charter for Public Education Network (CPEN), a non-profit, non-partisan membership based organization supporting public education, and more recently helped create the Public Education Research Foundation.
Dr. Moss has been appointed an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia and is the Director for the School Leadership Centre (SLC).

Hartej Gill was born in India in the state of Punjab. She is the daughter of Mohinder and Jiri Gill and the grand-daughter of Kishan & Naranjan Gill and Balwant & Pritam Sull who all come from a tradition of rice, sugarcane, date, wheat and vegetable farming in their respective villages of Fatehpur, Moranwali, Jindowal, and Palahi. Hartej's education began at the Government Primary School in Moranwali in the District of Hoshiar Pur. She has since worked as an Elementary School Teacher in both the English and French Immersion Programs in the North Vancouver School District. She has also held the positions of an English as an Additional Language Teacher, French as a Additional Language Teacher, Learning Assistance Teacher and Teacher-Librarian. In her last role in the North Vancouver School District, she worked as a Vice-Principal at Sherwood Park Elementary School. She has recently joined the Educational Administration Faculty in the Department of Educational Studies.
Hartej is particularly interested in Social Justice and Leadership and in using research to bridge the gap between theory, practice, and social activism. At the core of her work is the goal of provoking critical dialogues about identity, power, systemic oppression. colonialism, patriarchy and modernity etc. From her professorship position designated by EADM as a scholar-practitioner, she hopes to use her praxis as way of co-creating transformative and reciprocal relationships between universities, public schools, and the larger community.

Areas of Special Interest:
Social Justice/Anti-Oppressive Education and Leadership
Curriculum and Instruction
Critical Cultural and Cross-Cultural Studies
Transculturalisms and Indigeneity
Post-Colonial Theory
Decolonizing Research
Co-created Research for Social Advocacy

P. Taylor Webb is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies and Co-director of the School Leadership Centre at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His research focuses on poststructural analyses of educational policy. He is interested in understanding macro-policy influences and micro-realities of implementation, framing interactions as contests of power, leadership, and resistance. His current research examines education accountability in relation to the subtle ways knowledge is generated and performed according to different economic, racial, and gendered conditions. Dr. Webb is a current member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the American Educational Studies Association (AESA). He was the recipient of the Worthington Scholar Award at the University of Washington for his project entitled Teacher Leadership: Implications for an Evolving Profession.