EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

The EdCamp Explosion

Is crowdsourcing pro-d really a good idea?

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Down With Letter Grades

by: Bruce Beairsto

Engagement, Opinion, Well-being

Taking mental health to school

by: Holly Bennett

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

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

Opinion

The Rocky Road to Dropping Out

by: Holly Bennett

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

Opinion, School Community, Teaching

Big school infrastructure funding announcement shines media spotlight on Alberta

Canadian Education Wire

by: Max Cooke

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

Designing Creative Confidence

Not only is it time to reclaim our creative confidence, it is time to reclaim failure too.

by: Jennifer Chan

Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices

Motivation and Autonomy

Degrees of freedom in our schools and lives

by: Brooke Moore

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion

Engaging Learning in the 21st Century

by: Jodene Dunleavy

Assessment, Opinion, Policy, Promising Practices

“Reforming Education”

Like termites in the woodwork, reform cannot be easily stopped.

by: Peter H. Hennessy

Opinion, Teaching

Does a PLC Need Research?

by: Bruce Beairsto

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

Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Preparing The Classroom Garden

by: Bruce Beairsto

Curriculum, Opinion, School Community

Canadian Education Wire – As summer sizzles, so do ongoing secular schooling debates

The difficult issues that play out for muslim prayer space in Toronto and for religious education in Morinville Alberta are balanced by inspiring stories of parental and community engagement.

by: Max Cooke

Assessment, Equity, Opinion, Policy

Equity: After the Poetry Comes the Prose

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, Engagement, Opinion, Teaching

Increasing Student Learning

Are You Teaching for Understanding or Teaching by Tell & Do?

by: Lori Cullen

Opinion, Teaching

Visiting a life-skills classroom

How Ms Wiltse lets her students Shine

by: Brooke Moore