Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Preparing The Classroom Garden

by: Bruce Beairsto

Opinion, School Community, Teaching

Big school infrastructure funding announcement shines media spotlight on Alberta

Canadian Education Wire

by: Max Cooke

Assessment, Engagement, Equity, Opinion, Policy

PCAP 2010 – Are we asking the right questions?

PCAP, just like PISA, doesn’t take approaches to learning, student engagement, and teaching environments into account in comparing provinces.

by: Ron Canuel

Curriculum, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

What Will You Open First At The Beginning of the School Year?

Textbooks, Stories and the First Day of School

by: Stephen Hurley

EdCan Network, Opinion, Pathways, Promising Practices

Editor’s Note

by: Paula Dunning

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion, Teaching

Teachers Need Feedback Too

by: Bruce Beairsto

Leadership, Opinion, Policy

Cdn EdWire – Inclusion and cyberbullying debated in the Maritimes

From inclusion programs in New Brunswick referred to as ‘extreme’ to contentious school closures and new cyberbulling laws in Nova Scotia, there’s lots of education news from the East Coast.

by: Max Cooke

Curriculum, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

The “Canadian Way” in a Chinese School

by: Bruce Beairsto

Leadership, Opinion, School Community, Teaching, Well-being

Creating More Mentally Healthy Schools

Resources are available to help teachers bring conversations about mental health into their classrooms

by: Andrea Kirkum

Assessment, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Nova Scotia Report Cards make an odd bit of summer reading

by: Grant Frost

Equity, Opinion, Policy, School Community

Building a Better Sense of the Equity Picture

Equity Information Resources from the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)

by: Barbara McKenna

Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices

Motivation and Autonomy

Degrees of freedom in our schools and lives

by: Brooke Moore

Assessment, EdTech & Design, Equity, Opinion

Ways and Means

Income inequality most assuredly goes to the heart of the equity-in-education issue

by: Peter H. Hennessy

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

We Must Help Education Grow Forwards

Developing interconnected learning communities will be more helpful than mandating change

by: Janet Lauman

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

The 21st Century Personalizing Teacher

by: Bruce Beairsto

Leadership, Opinion, Policy, School Community, Teaching

Cdn EdWire – Short Term Labour Peace for Long Term Labour Strife?

The pundits and educators are mulling over the long term bargaining table ramifications from teacher labour deals struck in Ontario and B.C.

by: Max Cooke

Equity, Leadership, Opinion, School Community

Cdn EdWire – French Immersion Program Review in New Brunswick – Part Deux

Angst-filled consultation awaits a province still bruised by the great 2008 immersion debate. For some, the upcoming task force headed by two former education ministers comes too little too late.

by: Max Cooke

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

What’s Standing in the Way of Change? It Better not be Culture.

by: Scott Slater

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion

What Students Say About Inquiry

English 8 students reflect on inquiry-based learning

by: Brooke Moore

Curriculum, Engagement, Opinion, Policy, Promising Practices, School Community

The Education Reform Movement (Part 2)

Running the Obstacle Course

by: Peter H. Hennessy