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.

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

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

Digital Literacy is not a tool or a series of checklists

by: Brooke Moore

EdCan Network News

Parents concerned about split grades, class-cap study finds

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

EdTech & Design, Opinion, School Community, Teaching

Are You Twittering?

Here's why I think you should tweet

by: Brooke Moore

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

ConnectED Canada: Building a National Network for Change

by: Neil Stephenson

Assessment, Engagement, Opinion

Mixed Martial Arts and Life-Long-Learning

What we can learn from Mixed Martial Arts

by: Brooke Moore

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

Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices

More Students Share Reflections on What’s Standing in the Way of Change in Education

by: Speak Out

EdCan Network News

Central Okanagan School Board wins prestigious award

Curriculum, Opinion, Teaching

Writing his way forward

by: Brooke Moore

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Innovation in Education Through Failing

Educators must embrace the concept of learning through failure

by: Bruce Dixon

Engagement, Opinion

Honouring Student Voice and Experience

How one teacher invites students to reflect meaningfully on their lives

by: Brooke Moore

Curriculum, Engagement, Opinion, Pathways, School Community

How to set up community-based education?

A four-step plan to give teenagers a good dollop of community experience under their belts

by: Peter H. Hennessy

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

Necessary Disruption (Part 2: Preparing Engaged Citizens)

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Opinion, Pathways, Teaching

Poisonous Praise

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

by: Brooke Moore

EdCan Network News

Art program seeks to re-engage students

EdCan Network News

Catholic school board studied as a model ‘digital ecosystem’ for students

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