Dr. Westheimer then participated in a panel discussion alongside national and Nova Scotian educational leaders who offered their perspectives in response to his Whitworth lecture.

Participants in CEA’s Whitworth Public Forum, from left to right, April Howe-Diplock, (Member of the African Nova Scotia Advisory Committee of the Halifax Regional School Board), Mary Lou Donnelly, (President, Canadian Teachers’ Federation), Dr. Joel Westheimer (2009 Whitworth Award Winner), Carole Olsen, (CEA Chair, Superintendent of the Halifax Regional School Board and Master of Ceremonies), Ann Vanstone, (Former Co-Chair of Ontario’s Effective Schools Taskforce on Education), Thomas Henderson, (Nova Scotia Department of Education’s Literacy Assessment Coordinator), and Jane Purves (former Nova Scotia Minister of Education and panel discussion moderator).