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Heather MacTaggart

Heather MacTaggart

Heather MacTaggart is the founder and Executive Director of Classroom Connections and the highly successful Change It Up (CiU) skills development program. This professional development program now has federal funding to train educators and human development professionals across the country to incorporate this strengths-based, holistic, trauma-aware approach into their lives and work. Heather has written over 25 curriculum packages, such as the award-winning Cultivating Peace program, Literacy Connections and The Gathering Place, in use in schools and communities throughout Canada and beyond. Heather is also the co-author with John Abbott, Overschooled But Undereducated: How the crisis in education is jeopardizing our adolescents.
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Asking ‘how’ instead of ‘what’ – and why getting that right for your clients is everything

Heather MacTaggartHeather MacTaggart
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Most teaching, training and client support focuses on the “what” of it all: What’s the content? What’s the curriculum? And what is this person missing? If we truly want to...

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