Our vision is that ALL students thrive in our schools.
The EdCan Network has maintained its 129-year tradition as the only national, nonpartisan, bilingual organization representing 140,000 educators across Canada. Our role as an intermediary connects K-12 education systems across the country by producing and disseminating authoritative and evidence-based, yet accessible content that is trusted by educators, parents, and policymakers alike. EdCan aims to improve education policies that heighten equity and support deeper learning (i.e. a combination of the fundamental knowledge and practical basic skills all students need to succeed) and expanding the reach of educational resources to bridge the research-implementation gap.
By 2025, EdCan will have collaborated with all Ministries of Education and other education organizations to enhance educators’ capacity to explore and respond to public education’s emerging systemic opportunities and challenges.
- School-based educators and pre-service teachers
- Increased knowledge of – and flexibility to – implement designs for learning
- Increased recognition and validation of promising practices
- School Leaders
- Increased capacity to lead relevant, timely, and action-oriented professional learning for school-based educators
- Increased capacity to scale promising practices beyond a single learning environment
- Increased recognition of – and confidence in – how best to apply evidence-based practices to optimize learning environments
- School District Leaders
- Increased capacity to apply evidence-based practices to lead a process of continuous improvement throughout an entire school district
- Strengthened sense of shared vision and action towards key policy issues
- All beneficiaries
- Increased self-efficacy
- Increased collaboration
- Increased well-being
Ultimately, this work will heighten every student’s well-being and opportunities for meaningful learning to help them discover their purpose and path in life.
Through its research, knowledge mobilization, convening and professional learning activities, EdCan will:
Increase workplace wellbeing for K-12 staff
Supporting school districts and provinces to make teacher and staff well-being a top policy and investment priority.
Engage and Empower Students to Lead Societal Change
Supporting students’ acquisition of Global/Cultural Competencies via the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework, which will engage them in meaningful learning and discovering their crucial role in solving local, regional, national and global problems.
Equip K-12 staff by informing them on emerging issues and actionable strategies
Identifying ways, through its three areas of action, to support educators and key collaborators by responding to emerging Issues, challenges and opportunities.
Read the full version of EdCan’s Intended Impact and Theory of Change
