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Assessment, Leadership, Opinion, Policy, Promising Practices, School Community

Shaking the Education Tree

The time is now for a paradigm shift from uniformity, standardization, centralization and bureaucratization to one that heralds individualism, singularity and selfhood.

Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community, Teaching

Has teacher professionalism been over-shadowed by unionism?

Many teachers are trapped in the no-man’s land between unionism and professionalism

Assessment, Engagement, Opinion, Teaching

An assessment shift in practice

How one teacher is using a growth mindset to guide her writing inquiry

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

How is a School System Like a Modern Automobile?

Towards a more cohesive type of systems thinking

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices

The Space for Imagination in Our Schools

Working to step beyond boundaries

Curriculum, Opinion, Teaching

Cdn EdWire – Old Math vs. New Math

New study claims that traditional math education methods are superior to discovery-based instructional techniques, and the columnists pounce.

by: Max Cooke

Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Bossism in Public Education

A few examples of legislative/regulatory overkill in our education systems

Assessment, Opinion, Pathways, Teaching

Poisonous Praise

Re-thinking comments to encourage learning rather than the status quo

Assessment, Opinion, Pathways, Teaching

Poisonous Praise

Re-thinking comments to encourage learning rather than the status quo

Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

The Teaching Profession: Is There Still A Place For Imagination

Against pretending that we have it all figured out

Curriculum, Leadership, Opinion, School Community

Monkey-see…Monkey-do

Why the structure of public education is at odds with the needs of its clients

Curriculum, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Pathways, School Community

Bullying: Responding to a Sad Fact of Life

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Equity, Leadership, Opinion

Cdn EdWire: The Pros and Cons of Banning School Fundraising

Much ado in Ontario, as startling fundraising inequities are uncovered between schools in rich and poor Toronto neighbourhoods, while EQAO province wide testing results and ETFO election ads are released.

by: Max Cooke

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices

It’s Not Time For Imagination?

Nurturing possibility in a culture of efficiency

Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices

Motivation and Autonomy

Degrees of freedom in our schools and lives