Saccucci, Brent

I am first and foremost a teacher, and love that I keep learning what it means to teach and teach well. I believe whole-heartedly in the transformative power of education for a better social world, and crucial to that is developing classrooms that centre dialogue, generative discomfort, and relationality. As a faculty member in the Faculty of Education here at the University of Lethbridge, I get to teach our awesome education students in the social contexts of education, literacy, and leading change in schools. I created and lead the inaugural Leading Social Change in Schools Cohort, the first of it's kind at the UofL to prepare new teachers with leadership and advocacy skills to enact change in their schools and communities across southern Alberta. 

Before coming to UofL, I worked as an Adjunct Professor of Social Justice Education at the University of British Columbia, and taught literacy education to student-teachers at the University of Alberta. Also at the Faculty of Education at the UofA, I spent some of my most formative years working at the fYrefly Institute for Gender & Sexual Diversity, North America's largest 2SQT+ teaching and research centre in a Faculty of Education. There I lead research and education programs in schools and communities across Alberta in equity and anti-homo/transphobia education. I am a regular and active consultant in churches, rural towns, and schools across southern Alberta leading dialogue in gender and sexual diversity across a myriad of faiths, cultures, and belief systems. 

In K-12 schools, I have been a teacher in all divisions -- elementary, middle, and high school -- and have also worked as a school guidance counsellor, literacy interventionist, and district-wide equity consultant. One of my career highlights was working as a high school English & Social Studies teacher at LCI and equity and diversity consultant with Lethbridge School Division.