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

Innovation is the Beautiful Chaos that 28 Young Learners Create

Our challenge lies in how best to capture, synthesize and share the magic of learning that happens in authentic contexts.

by: Brian Harrison

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

The Classroom Might Remain Relevant

While the institution of school incentivizes control and predictability, the irony is that relevant skills result from autonomy and self-direction.

by: Eric Rosenberg

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

Curriculum, EdTech & Design, Opinion, School Community

Education Media/Blogosphere Roundup

by: Max Cooke

Equity, Opinion, School Community

CEA Contributes Canadian Context to American Education Documentary, Waiting for Superman

by: Max Cooke

Curriculum, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Isolating public education from the shifting winds of politics

The Education Reform Movement

by: Peter H. Hennessy

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

by: Peter H. Hennessy

EdCan Network News, Promising Practices

Ron Canuel Appointed as CEA’s New Chief Executive Officer

Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Teachers as Nodes in a Network

We are not alone nor are we powerless against an inflexible and outdated system

by: Daryl Bambic

EdTech & Design, Opinion, School Community

Maybe I’m In an Innovation Echo Chamber

I like shiny things, change, being uncomfortable, and doing something about it, but this movement isn’t happening where I am.

by: Aerin Guy

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

Is the iPad the Answer?

by: Bruce Beairsto

Welcoming EdCan’s new Bilingual Client Relations Manager

by: EdCan Network

Equity, Leadership, Opinion, Pathways

Equity Begins with Education

A different approach is required to increase postsecondary participation rates, as money alone will not work

by: Harvey Weingarten

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

How to Provoke Innovation in Your School – A Teacher’s Blueprint

by: Heidi Siwak

EdCan Network News

ALGOMA DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD AWARDED FOR E-LEARNING INTIATIVES

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

The Future is Here: Ready or Not

Schools, teachers and all stakeholders of the educational process need to see that the ground is shifting.

by: Daryl Bambic

EdCan Network News

School District Innovation Case Study: Avoid using “21st Century Learning” jargon and gently pull resistors forward

New Canadian Education Association report details how the Ottawa Catholic School Board has become one of the most innovative school systems in the country.

Engagement, Opinion, Pathways, Policy, School Community

Let’s get serious about community-based education

by: Peter H. Hennessy

Opinion, School Community

Canadian EdWire – Secular schooling disputes still make news in the dog days of summer

Plus Linda Darling-Hammond describes the "mess we are in"

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