Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence Recipients

2025 recipients

Janelle Brady

Faculty of Community Services

Dr. Janelle Brady’s activism for social justice and care for students’ experiential learning highlights her appreciation for the diverse ways of knowing and being that students bring to class through their intersecting identities, social locations/positionalities, and lived experiences. She has demonstrated excellence in experiential teaching by co-creating a new undergraduate course, redesigning a graduate course, and adding creative materials to two undergraduate courses between 2021 and 2023. Dr. Brady has received many awards, including the TMU Viola Desmond Faculty Award in 2022 and an Insight Development Grant Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in 2023.

Angela Misri

The Creative School

In her first year as a faculty member, Angela Misri demonstrated an exemplary record of service to the school, faculty and university, as well as in the profession. The volume and pace of service Angela showed and continues today, is remarkable. The DEC noted awe at the breadth, depth and sincerity of her engagement and the energy we wish was more ubiquitous and infectious. Angela's service far exceeds that of most and that it is worthy of recognition with this award. She shares energy, time and enthusiasm to always raise a hand, roll up a sleeve and jump right in.

Jennifer Poole

Faculty of Community Services

Jennifer (Jen) Poole, associate professor in the School of Social Work, has delivered excellence in impactful learning and teaching at TMU for over twenty years. Her award-winning teaching practice and scholarship has focused on critical grief, decolonial and critical mental health pedagogies and has upheld student voice, truth and access. Contributing to and innovating within the evolution of social work education, she is committed to collaborative and creative approaches in the classroom, supporting students to embrace transformative practice and intellectual growth through graduate supervision, research team membership, co-creation of curriculum, and co-authorship.

Past recipients