He has conducted fifteen years of applied research in public schools and their communities in three school boards in the Greater Toronto Area. Focused on education in contexts of linguistic and cultural hyperdiversity, his work includes a sustained outreach to build community-referenced decision-making capacity by bringing minority families and their children’s schools into dialogue. He has supervised parent and teacher research and facilitated over 50 discussion forums for minority families and their children’s schools. He is accredited as a Teacher of English as a Second Language, having taught adult education at the community college level and in settlement programs for newcomers to Canada. He now teaches in the Bachelor of Education (BEd) program at York University and teaches and supervises in the Graduate Program in Education (MEd and PhD).