Curriculum, Diversity, Opinion, Policy

Cdn EdWire – New Quebec Government Stirs Up Multiple Education Controversies

Newly elected separatist PQ government hits the ground running by proposing controversial policy shifts in private school subsidies, eliminating early English-as-a-second-language classes, and adding a more sovereignty-focused history curriculum.

by: Max Cooke

EdTech & Design, Opinion

Parents Learn about Inquiry-based Learning

An evening session with Neil Stephenson

by: Brooke Moore

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Plugging The Gap or Gapping the Plug

The Space for Sparks in the Teaching/Learning Dynamic

by: Stephen Hurley

Assessment, Opinion

Physical reactions to “no marks” announcement

Marks encourage institutional engagement – not connected to learning

by: Brooke Moore

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Flip This Class!

Claiming a Space for Innovative Practice

by: Stephen Hurley

Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Cdn EdWire – Ontario a Hotbed of Education Controversy

Education-related controversies persist with parents requesting pre-approval of sensitive subjects taught to their children and the increasingly divisive teacher labour disruption.

by: Max Cooke

Assessment, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices

Undoing School

Increasing the Connections Between Intellectual Engagement and Student Success

by: Stephen Hurley

Opinion, Teaching

Does a PLC Need Research?

by: Bruce Beairsto

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion

Embedded Inquiry

Why hadn't I thought of it like that before?

by: Brooke Moore

Curriculum, Indigenous Learning, Opinion, School Community

Cdn EdWire – Back-to-school Issues-a-plenty

The annual throng of September education media articles includes the ongoing tenuous teacher labour negotiations in Ontario and B.C., updates on cyberbullying prevention, and heaps of advice to parents.

by: Max Cooke

Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Changing the Conversations about Education

What if Twitter Stream were to meet mainstream?

by: Stephen Hurley

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Capturing Canadians’ Views on Change in Education

Results from the 2012 CEA Attitudes Towards Public Education Survey

by: Max Cooke

Engagement, Opinion, School Community

Schools as A Place of Relationship

by: Stephen Hurley

Opinion, School Community

Cdn EdWire – Threat to Recruit Strippers from High School has Legs

Plus groundbreaking anti-bullying and copyright legislation, and heated Ontario teacher labour negotiations keep media focus on education during the traditional summer downtime

by: Max Cooke

Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Teachers as Nodes in a Network

We are not alone nor are we powerless against an inflexible and outdated system

by: Daryl Bambic

Opinion

Teaching the Way We Aspire to Teach

In Praise of Context

by: Stephen Hurley

Opinion, Policy, Teaching

Deep Breaths

Our teachers shape and define the lives that our children will lead and we must heed their voices; just as we must heed the voices of those who populate, fund and direct our schools.

by: Brian Harrison

Assessment, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

Two Heads are Better Than One – Except in School

by: Bruce Beairsto

Curriculum, Leadership, Opinion, Teaching

Reminder: Teaching is a Soulful Experience that Transforms Kids

Facilitating teacher focus groups across the country revealed teachers’ profound sense of humility for the enormous impact they have on young people’s lives

by: Ron Canuel

Opinion, Promising Practices

Are We Teaching the Way We Aspire to Teach

What sort of question is that?

by: Stephen Hurley