CENTRE FOR TEACHING
EXCELLENCE & INNOVATION

Faculty Excellence and Development​​

Meet our CTEI Faculty Excellence and Development Team!

Matthew Dunleavy wearing a pink and purple polka-dot shirt under a grey blazer with red-framed glasses and a long reddish-brown beard smiling into the camera

Matthew Dunleavy
Senior Educational Developer, Faculty Excellence and Development
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Matthew Dunleavy (he/him) is an educational developer and scholarly teacher with over 9+ years’ experience. He immediately joins our CTEI from York University where he was an Educational Developer with the Teaching Commons; before entering that role, he served as the Program Director of the Online Learning and Technology Consultants (OLTC) Program at the Maple League of Universities (Acadia University; Bishop’s University; Mount Allison University; and St. Francis Xavier University). In 2022, he was awarded the D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) for this work.

Tereigh Ewert
Educational Developer
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Tereigh Ewert (she/her) has lived and breathed educational development for over 25 years. The first 17 years of her career were with the University of Saskatchewan’s Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning, focusing on graduate student teacher development, intercultural development, Indigenization, and “inclusive” pedagogies. She transitioned to Dalhousie University’s Centre for Learning and Teaching, diving deeply into her role as a Senior Educational Developer (Anti-oppressive and Transformative Education). Through deep relationships and taking personal accountability as a white settler, she influenced academic programs, institutional policies and language, and pedagogical philosophies and approaches, to mitigate barriers for equity-denied communities. Tereigh also served as a founding co-chair of the Dalhousie (dis)Ability Caucus for Faculty and Staff. In 2023, she was greatly humbled to receive the Dalhousie DPMG Career Award, and a Dalhousie Legacy Award.

Indoors and out, she surrounds herself with plants and animals, and her cat, Squishy–persistent participant in online meetings, workshops, consultations, and conferences–is widely recognized as a respected educational developer in his own right.

Stay tuned as we continue to launch with portfolio.

Matthew Dunleavy wearing a pink and purple polka-dot shirt under a grey blazer with red-framed glasses and a long reddish-brown beard smiling into the camera
Matthew Dunleavy

Senior Educational Developer, Faculty Excellence and Development

[email protected] 

Matthew Dunleavy (he/him) is an educational developer and scholarly teacher with over 10+ years’ experience. In addition to working at the CTEI, Matthew serves as the Vice-Chair of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE). Before joining the CTEI, Matthew was an Educational Developer in the Teaching Commons at York University; before entering that role, he served as the Program Director of the Online Learning and Technology Consultants (OLTC) Program at the Maple League of Universities (Acadia University; Bishop’s University; Mount Allison University; and St. Francis Xavier University). In 2022, he was awarded the D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning by STLHE for this work.