Leadership, Opinion, School Community, Well-being

What does Education have to do with the Mental Health of Children and Youth?

by: Lynette Eulette

Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

What’s standing in the way of educational change?

Well, actually...nothing?

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

Curriculum, Engagement, Opinion, School Community

Drama Festival Proof of Value of Arts in the Schools

Kids deal with bullying through the power of creation

by: Grant Frost

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Equity, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Equity of Output Must Become the Next ‘21st Century’ Objective

It’s about developing a deeper sense of commitment to finally move the discussions and debates to more pragmatic realities.

by: Ron Canuel

Opinion, School Community, Teaching

Big school infrastructure funding announcement shines media spotlight on Alberta

Canadian Education Wire

by: Max Cooke

Leadership, Opinion, School Community, Teaching, Well-being

Creating More Mentally Healthy Schools

Resources are available to help teachers bring conversations about mental health into their classrooms

by: Andrea Kirkum

Assessment, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Nova Scotia Report Cards make an odd bit of summer reading

by: Grant Frost

Equity, Opinion, Policy, School Community

Building a Better Sense of the Equity Picture

Equity Information Resources from the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)

by: Barbara McKenna

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

We Must Help Education Grow Forwards

Developing interconnected learning communities will be more helpful than mandating change

by: Janet Lauman

Equity, Leadership, Opinion, School Community

Cdn EdWire – French Immersion Program Review in New Brunswick – Part Deux

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.

by: Max Cooke

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

What’s Standing in the Way of Change? It Better not be Culture.

by: Scott Slater

Leadership, Opinion, Policy, School Community, Teaching

Cdn EdWire – Short Term Labour Peace for Long Term Labour Strife?

The pundits and educators are mulling over the long term bargaining table ramifications from teacher labour deals struck in Ontario and B.C.

by: Max Cooke

Curriculum, Engagement, Opinion, Policy, Promising Practices, School Community

The Education Reform Movement (Part 2)

Running the Obstacle Course

by: Peter H. Hennessy

Equity, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Cdn EdWire: With Students Back in Classrooms, Education Media Kicks into High Gear

A barrage of quality coverage on classrooms, teaching, and equity issues compete for space alongside updates on the B.C. teacher labour dispute and education policy promises from the Ontario campaign trail.

by: Max Cooke

Diversity, Leadership, Opinion, School Community

Cdn EdWire – A New Year’s Hodge-Podge of Contentious Education Issues Fill the Dailies

An Alberta school reform plan, the launch of Toronto boutique schools, cutting New Brunswick school board, and the cost of minority language education are lightning rods for debate among stakeholders and the public.

by: Max Cooke

Curriculum, Opinion, School Community

Canadian Education Wire – As summer sizzles, so do ongoing secular schooling debates

The difficult issues that play out for muslim prayer space in Toronto and for religious education in Morinville Alberta are balanced by inspiring stories of parental and community engagement.

by: Max Cooke

Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Bossism in Public Education

A few examples of legislative/regulatory overkill in our education systems

by: Peter H. Hennessy

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

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

by: Bruce Beairsto

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