Speaker: Dr. Mala V. Thapar, teacher, consultant and workshop facilitator with the Toronto and Simcoe School Boards.  Her work includes meeting staff and students, teaching curriculum incorporating inclusiveness  and planning workshops for people with cognitive impairments and the gifted
 

The talk covers the urgent need to include people with different cultures, abilities and social strata in the education system aims for equitable distribution of opportunity and addresses the equity issues.  It also aims at doing so in the planning, policy making, execution and assessment stages, by involving strategies that cater to individual and cultural differences