EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

My Guitar Class is More than a Class

It’s an environment for action, collaboration, and innovation to take place, and for this innovation to be owned by the individuals and groups that fill these spaces.

by: Bryan Jackson

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion

Motivation and Mastery – The Problem with Deferred Data

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Engagement, Opinion, Teaching

An assessment shift in practice

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

by: Brooke Moore

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Capturing Canadians’ Views on Change in Education

Results from the 2012 CEA Attitudes Towards Public Education Survey

by: Max Cooke

Leadership, Opinion, School Community, Teaching

Odyssey Conference 2010

November 18, 2010 - November 20, 2010 | Toronto, ON

by: Michael Sefcik

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

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

by: Max Cooke

Assessment, Diversity, Leadership, Opinion, School Community, Teaching

Canadian Education Wire – Effects of Ministerial Belt Tightening Felt by Current and Would-be Teachers

A busy week of education media focusing on the fallout from Ministerial education budget cuts in several provinces, a case for year round schooling, and language learning in Nunavut.

by: Max Cooke

Opinion, Teaching

Lunch and Learn

Professional conversations over soup

by: Brooke Moore

Equity, Leadership, Opinion, School Community

“Hello Equity, we’d like to introduce you to Accountability”

If real change and equity are the goal, we must treat education in a similar way to how we treat medicine

by: Jeff Kugler

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

A Modest Proposal – Online Requirement for Graduation

by: Bruce Beairsto

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion, Teaching

Classroom Innovation Means Giving Up Control

The essence of what drives innovation begins with what kids want to learn.

by: Donna Miller Fry

Opinion, Policy, School Community

Canadian EdWire – All’s Not So Quiet on the Education Front

Special-needs integration guidelines unveiled in Quebec, flare-ups involving religious accommodation, cheating, and school closures.

by: Max Cooke

Assessment, Opinion

Physical reactions to “no marks” announcement

Marks encourage institutional engagement – not connected to learning

by: Brooke Moore

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

How Blogging and Tweeting Reinvigorated my Passion for Teaching

Exploration and risk-taking have become the norm for teachers who want to invite the world into the classroom.

by: Colleen Rose

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Equity, Opinion, School Community

Parents Please BYOD

When parents become active participants in their child’s learning - something that is made amazingly easy with mobile devices – everyone benefits.

by: Lorna Costantini

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Teaching

Pulling It Together: The People Puzzle

by: John J C Myers

Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Why the UnPlug’d Canadian Education Summit Matters

Canada’s foremost edu-tweeters spend a rare weekend offline and develop a collective vision for the future of K-12 education in Canada.

by: Max Cooke

Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Please take the CEA/Ipsos Attitudes Toward Public Education Survey

We’re capturing a cross-Canada picture of your views on educational change

by: Ron Canuel

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

My Secrets for Innovating Classroom Practice – Part 1

An outline of the steps I took to transform my practice so that it is now aligned with expectations for 21st Century Fluencies.

by: Heidi Siwak

Curriculum, Leadership, Opinion, School Community

Monkey-see…Monkey-do

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

by: Peter H. Hennessy