DKG ALBERTA

AN INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S NETWORK THAT EMPOWERS AND SUPPORTS EDUCATORS AND ELEVATES THE PROFESSION

Empowering Women Who Educate

Mission

To promote professional and personal growth of women educators and excellence in education.

Message from our Area Representative for Canada: Dr. Shar McGowan (Saskatchewan)

First Canadian Forum Conference a Tremendous Success

We can now pop the champagne to celebrate! The first Canadian Forum Conference, held July 10–12 in Brandon, Manitoba, was a clear success.

The conference’s theme was Unite, Uplift, Inspire! and I am pleased to say that all three themes were experienced in full by those in attendance. On Thursday, July 10, with the theme of Unite, we began with an opening keynote on the topic Canadians Who Innovate: The Trailblazers and Ideas That Are Changing the World. On Friday the theme of Uplift introduced the subjects Indigenous Epistemologies in Teaching and Learning and The Power of Yes through a second and third keynote. On Saturday, under the backdrop of Inspire, the keynote Empowering or Undermining? Understanding the Role of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Today's Teaching and Learning Context was presented along with a final keynote, Light and Joy: Igniting Our Strength and Purpose. But that’s not all! The Canadian Forum Conference also featured a terrific selection of captivating breakout topics presented by numerous DKG members. Several attendees also completed an excursion to nearby Winnipeg to experience the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (https://humanrights.ca/) on Sunday, July 13 along with a river cruise.

International President Dr. Beverly Hall-Maughan and several other Administrative Board members attended as did so many other friends from regions outside of Canada. We were so happy to see them!

Even though the conference was exciting for us all, our hearts were also heavy with concern for those impacted by the forest fires which were in full force in northern Manitoba. As a result of the fires, the conference hotel opened its doors to a number of evacuees and their families. The Canadian Red Cross also had temporary residence at the conference hotel to assist those in need. Typical of the spirit of DKG, dozens of conference attendees generously donated monetary and other resources to those families who were impacted by the fires and had to leave their homes as a result.

We offer our gratitude to the conference organizers for the success of our first Canadian Forum Conference. We all hope it won’t be the last!

Be sure to check out our Activities Page under Alberta Chapters!

Congratulations to the Early Educators who received our gift bags!

Supporting Early Career Educators

We recognize that educators are leaving the profession at an alarming rate. DKG supports early educators as an International Initiative since the International Convention in 2012. If you would like more information about our initiative, please contact women.educators.dkgalberta@gmail.com

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Founders

Let us live the legacy that these visionary women began.

Nine years after women won the right to vote in the United States of America, DKG was founded to fill the needs of women in the educational profession. At that time, women teachers were offered few leadership positions, promoted rarely, fired easily, and paid less than male colleagues. Dr. Annie Webb Blanton, a university professor and a former Texas Superintendent of Education, dreamed of and planned for an organization in which women teachers could support one another and recognize themselves as leaders in a chosen profession. Blanton and eleven other women educators, representing different disciplines and under assumed names for fear of losing jobs, founded DKG on May 11, 1929.

Purposes

To unite women educators of the world in a genuine spiritual fellowship
To honor women who have given or who evidence a potential for distinctive service in any field of education
To advance the professional interest and position of women in education
To initiate, endorse and support desirable legislation or other suitable endeavors in the interests of education and of women educators
To endow awards to aid members in pursuing personal and professional growth and to provide grants to non-ember educators
To stimulate the personal and professional development of members and to encourage their participation in relevant programs of action
To inform the members of current economic, social, political and educational issues so that they may participate effectively to support a sustainable world society.

Revised November 11, 2025

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