Assessment, EdCan Network, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Let’s Be Honest: One Maguire Moment and 26 Teacher Voices

We need to face the reality that our job in education is to SUPPORT the learner

by: Dr. Valerie Irvine

EdCan Network, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

As Past Students, We Think We’re ‘Experts’ in Changing Education

Closing the chasm between those leading education reform and the public isn’t easy

by: Michael McEvoy

EdCan Network, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Academics. What’s it good for?

Our school system doesn’t need to create kids who are good at school

by: Shelley Wright

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

Brave Educators Possess an Inquisitive Nature to Pursue Change

We must provide guidance and reassurance to those who are ‘sticking their necks out’

by: Colleen Rose

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

Another Brick in the Wall

What’s standing in the way of change in education?

by: Peter Skillen

EdCan Network, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices

Avoiding the Parable of the Boiled Frog

We must find ways to authentically engage the public in a discourse about gradual and significant change in public education

by: Jordan Tinney

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices

Stop Asking For Permission to Change

It’s our school culture – not bureaucratic hierarchy – that provides the constraints to meaningful change.

by: Brian Harrison

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Change in the Trenches

It’s time to develop teacher PD that doesn’t waste our time

by: John J C Myers

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Teaching

Sharing Shouldn’t Seem Scary

By failing to fully leverage the power of sharing, we stand in our own way of change in education

by: Aaron Akune

Assessment, Curriculum, Diversity, EdCan Network, Opinion, Policy, Promising Practices

Placing Value on Citizenship Education in a Dog-Eat-Dog World

Confront barriers to change by educating active citizens for a democratic society

by: Peter H. Hennessy

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices

So, what’s standing in the way of change in education?

It’s time to start challenging our lingering assumptions about teaching and learning

by: Ron Canuel

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Why do we need innovation in education?

Launch of a CEA blog focus aims to start building some form of consensus of our collective expectations for why innovation is needed in education.

by: Ron Canuel

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

Twitter and Canadian Education – The danger, and benefits, to developing Top 10 lists

by: Max Cooke

EdCan Network, Equity, Opinion, School Community, Teaching

Isn’t it about time we admit that race matters?

If indeed we are to eventually have a teaching population that is representative of the students, then we need to do more than base our assertions on hunches

by: Carl E. James

Assessment, EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Equity, Opinion, Policy

Restoring Our Schools: The Quest for Equity in the United States

Why the gap between the U.S. and high-achieving nations like Canada is growing

by: Linda Darling-Hammond

Assessment, Diversity, EdCan Network, Equity, Opinion

Investing in human development

If you were to design a place and program to nurture the fullest development of children, would it be like a school? My answer is invariably ‘no’.

by: Penny Milton

Assessment, EdCan Network, Equity, Opinion

What will it take to achieve equity in and through educational improvement?

Three reasons why we need to be vigilant about arguing and advocating for equity

by: Dr. Carol Campbell

Curriculum, EdCan Network, Engagement, Opinion, Well-being

From The Editor: On the Campaign Trail

by: Paula Dunning

EdCan Network, Opinion, Pathways, Promising Practices

Editor’s Note

by: Paula Dunning

EdCan Network, Opinion, Policy, Promising Practices, School Community, Teaching

Education Canada’s Summer 2010 Edition is Now Available

by: Michael Sefcik