Ally Darling-Beaudoin is a nationally recognized Registered Interior Designer based in Gatineau, QC. She is currently employed at a third-generation local design firm where she creates and collaborates with clients across corporate, hospitality, residential, and retail sectors. Outside of her regular employment, she spends her time mentoring in the interior design community, providing critiques to students, teaching as an instructor, and assisting provincial and national organizations with their professional licensure examination development and study material.

As an educator, Ally has taught various design-thinking concepts (including systems thinking), and numerous technical/practical concepts such as construction methodologies, software proficiencies, and building code compliance.

She has designed numerous educational environments as part of her interior design career, including specialty 3D milling machinery labs, active learning classrooms, and "traditional" classroom environments. Ally is also a certified WELL AP practitioner, a standard which prioritizes wellbeing of building occupants in design.

When not pursuing her love of interior design, Ally pursues her other loves, local music events, film, DIY renovations, and backcountry camping.

Cindy Keung has been teaching, developing curriculum in blended and online mediums for over twenty years. Her formal training was initially in music education, graduating from UBC's School of Music then onto a B.Ed, theatre training in NYC and M.Ed. Her music teaching experience took her across the globe in the Offshore School District and International school circuit in Asia in the area of Performing Arts.

Cindy has taught locally in BC, done advising work at the post-secondary school level and was a general curriculum project manager while writing online courses for the K-12 education system. She is also currently involved in research work with the Ministry of Education.

Her academic interests involve understanding Indigeneity in online learning and ally-ship in creating safe spaces for Indigenous Youth to thrive in their lives. Cindy’s over-arching academic interest is Critical Education and how this perspective is implemented in teacher training and decolonization.

When not teaching and studying her “work”, Cindy practices her genetically-inherited super power of singing as well as playing the piano and guitar, recording music and collaborating with her students to create beautiful sounds. She also enjoys cycling, Spinning, dance, swimming, warm weather, beautiful beaches, reading about theology and training for triathlons. Cindy loves to spend time with her family and devoted rescue pup, Billy Bop, who has several special health needs and requires 24/7 special care.

Brendan Stanford teaches Middle School Math, Science, and Technology education, and he got to experience the disruption of pandemic teaching firsthand. Ironically, the learning experience as a graduate student in UBC's Masters of Educational Technology (MET) did not change in any noticeable way, but that speaks to how innovative a program it already was pre-pandemic.

The pandemic spurred Brendan to change his practice in ways he had always "meant to", but that he never seemed to have the time or energy for. He began to Screencast lessons into online videos so that he could restructure class as a "flipped" model that prioritized discussions and activities rather than lectures, and with partners, he created systems like a "choice board" of learning so that students could have more choice over when, how and what they learn.

Though Brendan continues to see student struggles concerning their mental health and well-being during this crisis, Brendan sees increasing social-emotional learning in the classroom as a means to help students and staff manage these new challenges even better than we did before the pandemic.

When not teaching, Brendan loves to nerd out over tea and a good chat about what the future of education will really look like!