Assessment, Equity, Indigenous Learning, Opinion

Cdn EdWire – First Nations Schooling Inequities, PCAP Fallout, and Ongoing Bullying Dilemma

Over the last month, the education media have highlighted some serious issues and shortcomings in our public education systems, while shedding some light on what innovation looks like in the classroom.

by: Max Cooke

Assessment, Leadership, Opinion

Bill H.R. 5: Another Blow a Brewin’ for Standardization?

by: Grant Frost

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.

by: Peter H. Hennessy

Assessment, Opinion, Teaching

Professionals Don’t Use Marks to Motivate

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Up With Reporting

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Policy, School Community

School’s Out For The Summer. What A Silly Thing To Do!

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, EdCan Network, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Let’s Be Honest: One Maguire Moment and 26 Teacher Voices

We need to face the reality that our job in education is to SUPPORT the learner

by: Dr. Valerie Irvine

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

Assessment, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

Setting the End of the Year Awards Table

Has Your Guest List Changed Over the Years?

by: Stephen Hurley

Assessment, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices

Think Twice, Measure Once

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Curriculum, Diversity, EdCan Network, Opinion, Policy, Promising Practices

Placing Value on Citizenship Education in a Dog-Eat-Dog World

Confront barriers to change by educating active citizens for a democratic society

by: Peter H. Hennessy

Assessment, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Down With Letter Grades

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Engagement, Opinion, Teaching

Increasing Student Learning

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

by: Lori Cullen

Assessment, Equity, Opinion, Policy

Equity: After the Poetry Comes the Prose

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Opinion, Policy, Promising Practices

“Reforming Education”

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

by: Peter H. Hennessy

Assessment, EdTech & Design, Equity, Opinion

Ways and Means

Income inequality most assuredly goes to the heart of the equity-in-education issue

by: Peter H. Hennessy

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion, Teaching

Evidence of Teaching, Evidence of Learning

by: Lori Cullen

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion, Teaching

Motivation and Mastery – Listening to Student Voices

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion

Motivation and Mastery – The Problem with Grand Goals

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Opinion, Pathways, Teaching

Cdn EdWire – Edmonton ‘Zeros’ In On Grading and Assessment Practices

A teacher suspended for giving students zeros touches off an emotional and polarizing discussion among educators and the public about no-zero policies.

by: Max Cooke