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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, Opinion, Teaching

Professionals Don’t Use Marks to Motivate

by: Bruce Beairsto

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, 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, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion, Teaching

Teachers Need Feedback Too

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, 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

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, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Up With Reporting

by: Bruce Beairsto

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, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Policy, School Community

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

by: Bruce Beairsto

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

Assessment, Engagement, Opinion, Teaching