Enhancing the learning experiences of students.

Dr. Christine Ho Younghusband is passionate about teaching, learning, and leadership. Her mission is to enhance and improve the student learning experience. Christine completed her doctorate in Educational Leadership in 2017 at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in the School of Education since 2018. She is a former secondary mathematics teacher and 2-term school trustee serving locally and provincially on the BC School Trustees Association Board of Directors. Christine is an Affiliated Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Educational Leadership and Policy (CSELP) at SFU, co-moderator of #bcedchat on Twitter, and vice-chair of the Institute for Public Education BC. She is also a sessional instructor at St. Mark’s College at UBC, taught EDUC 471 and EDUC 454 at SFU, and developed curriculum with the Ministry of Education, OpenEd BC, and First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC). Christine is driven by THINKING FORMATIVE in her practice and her research interests include mathematics education, professional learning experiences, subject matter acquisition, self-assessment through portfolios, leadership in education, and ethnic identity.


Appointed Full-Time Regular Term Assistant Professor
UNBC School of Education (Teacher Education and Graduate Studies)

August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2025 (renewed for 3-years)

Recent publications:

Ho Younghusband, C. (2022). Practicum during the pandemic: Zooming in. OTESSA Conference Proceedings, 2(1), 1-7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18357/OTESSA.2022.2.1.89
https://conference.otessa.org/index.php/conference/article/view/89

Ho Younghusband, C. & Koehn, D. (2022). Teacher candidates peer-oriented triads: Transforming practice through peer assessment during field experience. Canadian Journal of Action Research. 22(2), 29-45.
https://journals.nipissingu.ca/index.php/cjar/article/view/553


Recent Posts

  • My Last Post

    Week 155 – March 4, 2023 – This is the End Losing access to my website and with each update and now a change in apps… I am slowly but surely losing touch with my blog. I think who’s is this will be my last blog post on this WordPress site. It’s the end. No […]

  • Persistence Pays Off

    Week 154 – February 25, 2023 – You just never know Once again, life lessons acquired from curling. I am so grateful for this game and the people who I play the game with. I’ve been so lucky and fortunate to have awesome teams to play with, here in Prince George, and other teams in […]

  • Getting It Together

    Week 153 – February 18, 2023 – Blogging Getting Difficult Oh my… PATIENCE seeps in to my psyche again. My access to my own blog is getting more limiting (maybe with every update). Nonetheless, here I am. One step at a time. I’m getting things done (even though I have a billion things to do). […]