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

Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Can You Imagine?

Beginning a conversation about the power of imaginative thinking in our schools

by: Stephen Hurley

Curriculum, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

What Will You Open First At The Beginning of the School Year?

Textbooks, Stories and the First Day of School

by: Stephen Hurley

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community, Teaching

Prevent Teacher ‘YouTubing’ by Giving Students More Freedom to Learn

Banning student smartphones denies them the chance to learn communication, collaboration, and creation.

by: Alanna King

Assessment, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices

Assessment As Learning: It’s time. Seriously.

Shifting your classroom and mindset from ranking (marks) to learning (feedback)

by: Brooke Moore

Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Why the UnPlug’d Canadian Education Summit Matters

Canada’s foremost edu-tweeters spend a rare weekend offline and develop a collective vision for the future of K-12 education in Canada.

by: Max Cooke

Opinion, Policy, Promising Practices

Raise High The Roof-Beam Carpenters

Making Room in our Vision of Schools

by: Stephen Hurley

Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community, Teaching

Starting Points in Education

Conversations with Beginning Teachers

by: Stephen Hurley

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

The Education Reform Movement (Part 2)

Running the Obstacle Course

by: Peter H. Hennessy

Curriculum, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

The “Canadian Way” in a Chinese School

by: Bruce Beairsto

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

A Modest Proposal – Podcast Newsletters

by: Bruce Beairsto

Opinion, Promising Practices

edCamp Vancouver

Exploring the "What's Left" in Professional Development

by: Stephen Hurley

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

A Modest Proposal – Let’s Flip the Class

by: Bruce Beairsto

Curriculum, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Isolating public education from the shifting winds of politics

The Education Reform Movement

by: Peter H. Hennessy

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

A Modest Proposal – Online Requirement for Graduation

by: Bruce Beairsto

Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

The Education Reform Movement

Re-engage students with the adult world as part of their formal education

by: Peter H. Hennessy

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

Rethinking School Design: Part Two

Making A Grand Entrance

by: Stephen Hurley

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

Necessary Disruption (Part 7: Making the Change)

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Opinion, Policy, Promising Practices

“Reforming Education”

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

by: Peter H. Hennessy

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Rethinking School Design

The Transition from Space to Place

by: Stephen Hurley