Ensuring an equitable education for all our youth means that we need to change the way schools and the community view education, how it is delivered and who is responsible.
If indeed we are to eventually have a teaching population that is representative of the students, then we need to do more than base our assertions on hunches
It is time that Indigenous peoples walk side by side on a shared education journey that is appreciative of the histories and contributions of both our world and the western world
To create spiritually inclusive schools, we will need to create a set of ground rules about spirituality in public education settings and by extension, public society
Equity will only be realized when learning is personalized and every student has the ability to access information at their individual speed or learning
To start, we need a federal action plan that involves the provinces, territories, Aboriginal governments, the community sector, the private sector, and people living in poverty
Angst-filled consultation awaits a province still bruised by the great 2008 immersion debate. For some, the upcoming task force headed by two former education ministers comes too little too late.
The time is now for a paradigm shift from uniformity, standardization, centralization and bureaucratization to one that heralds individualism, singularity and selfhood.