Indigenous Learning, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices

Getting to a Deeper Level of Knowing

Education leaders need to truly understand the journey that Aboriginal students are currently travelling to ensure their success.

by: Carolyn Duhamel

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

What Can Teachers Do for students who Have More specific Anxiety Needs?

by: Louise Moreau

Leadership, Opinion, Teaching, Well-being

Student Anxiety – What Can Teachers Do?

by: Louise Moreau

Leadership, Opinion, School Community, Well-being

What does Education have to do with the Mental Health of Children and Youth?

by: Lynette Eulette

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

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, 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

EdTech & Design, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices

Everyone has an excuse for not wanting to change

But our young people deserve for us to take the challenge of change seriously

by: Bruce Dixon

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

Assessment, Leadership, Opinion

Bill H.R. 5: Another Blow a Brewin’ for Standardization?

by: Grant Frost

EdTech & Design, Leadership, Opinion

Innovation requires the understanding that learning takes place every day; everywhere.

For real change – dramatic change – systemic change – change has to happen at the policy level – with the elected – at all levels.

by: Sandi Urban-Hall

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion, Teaching

Evidence of Teaching, Evidence of Learning

by: Lori Cullen

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

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

Leadership, Opinion, School Community

Cdn EdWire – The Impact of Funding Shortfalls Felt in Saskatchewan Schools

Education media details the fallout from a national belt-tightening trend as school boards struggle to balance the books

by: Max Cooke

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion, Teaching

Motivation and Mastery – Listening to Student Voices

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

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion

Motivation and Mastery – The Problem with Deferred Data

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion

Motivation and Mastery – The Problem with Grand Goals

by: Bruce Beairsto