Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion

Motivation and Mastery – The Problem with Grand Goals

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

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices

Stop Asking For Permission to Change

It’s our school culture – not bureaucratic hierarchy – that provides the constraints to meaningful change.

by: Brian Harrison

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion, Teaching

Motivation and Mastery – Listening to Student Voices

by: Bruce Beairsto

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

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

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion

What is the question?

Politics get in the way of improving learning for ALL learners

by: Brooke Moore

Leadership, Opinion, School Community

Canadian EdWire – The back-to-school media crush begins

Advice on curbing back-to-school anxiety, homework meltdowns, and paying for school essentials, except in B.C., where a high-stakes labour dispute is ready to unfold.

by: Max Cooke

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

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

Assessment, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices

Don’t Let Data Drive Your Dialogue

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Improving Assessment and Reporting with Performance Standards

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion

Motivation and Mastery – The Problem with Deferred Data

by: Bruce Beairsto

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

Curriculum, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Isolating public education from the shifting winds of politics

The Education Reform Movement

by: Peter H. Hennessy

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

Equity, Leadership, Opinion, Policy

An equity lens beyond the traditional approaches

Having educators understand that equity is about inclusion, not exclusion, is a critical step in garnering the "WILL" to take the necessary actions needed

by: Yaw Obeng

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

Equity, Leadership, Opinion, Policy, School Community

Much-needed specialized school programs that build equity must expand

Toronto’s Triangle Program, Model Schools, and Africentric schools cannot be dismissed as ‘band-aid solutions’

by: John Campey