EdCan Network News, EdTech & Design

2016 Canadian Innovators in Education Award Winners: A Clean Sweep for B.C. School Districts

Representatives from the three award-winning B.C. school districts will share how they developed exciting new models of teaching and learning in an upcoming luncheon panel discussion

Assessment, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Merit Pay for Canadian Teachers

Is it worth a look?

by: Stephen Hurley

Equity, Opinion, Policy, School Community

Are We Star Gazing? Can Canadian Schools Really be Equitable and Inclusive?

Leadership is the issue. It’s not the students and not the teachers. They can handle the challenges of “inclusive education”.

by: Gordon Porter

EdTech & Design, Leadership, Opinion, School Community, Teaching

Moving Beyond “Sit’n’Git” Pro-D

We need to rethink conferences and professional learning so that they better align with what we want to see in classrooms

by: Chris Wejr

EdCan Network Status Update: Streamlining Our Operations While Maintaining Member Value

(Nov 1, 2023-March 31, 2024)

by: EdCan Network

EdCan Network News

The EdCan Network Announces its 2020-2021 Advisory Council

This pan-Canadian network of leaders from the K-12, post-secondary, not-for-profit and corporate sectors continues its vital advisory role on how best to provide professional learning support to educators during this challenging time.

by: EdCan Network

Opinion, Pathways, Promising Practices

The Art of Change

Exploring New Metaphors to Discover What Is Important

by: Stephen Hurley

Assessment, Engagement, Opinion, Well-being

Is a Teacher a Friendly Critic or Critical Friend?

by: Bruce Beairsto

EdTech & Design, Opinion

Google Apps for Education: The promise and peril of tech in the classroom.

by: Grant Frost

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices

Wanted: Quality Learning Environments

Redesigning the Work of Schools

by: Stephen Hurley

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Flip This Class!

Claiming a Space for Innovative Practice

by: Stephen Hurley

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Research, Teaching

Neuroscience Can Teach Us a Lot About Why Students Drop Out

by: Ron Canuel

Assessment, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices

Come and sit beside me and I’ll tell you what I think!

The importance of proximity in our approach to assessment

by: Stephen Hurley

EdTech & Design, Opinion

Defining Play

Are We All On The Same Page?

by: Stephen Hurley

Opinion, Teaching

Aboriginal Education

Our moral imperative to teach our shared Canadian history

by: Brooke Moore

EdCan Network News, EdTech & Design, Indigenous Learning

Honouring the Past, Creating a Brighter Future: Kootenay-Columbia School District’s H’a H’a Tumxulaux Outdoor Education Program Recognized Nationally

The CEA to showcase how this successful Indigenous learning program is tackling youth despair by inspiring students to dream for the future.

Curriculum, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices

Our Roots Are Showing

Digging Deeper for Powerful Learning Contexts

by: Stephen Hurley

Engagement, Opinion, Pathways, Teaching

6 Secrets for Engaging Males in Learning

We need to unleash motivated engagement and discretionary effort in boys long before they might consider dropping out, beginning in elementary school.

by: Edmond Dixon

Assessment, Engagement, Opinion

School is a Risky Place

Inspired by my reading of Brene Brown's Daring Greatly

by: Brooke Moore

Engagement, Indigenous Learning, Opinion, School Community

Learning through empathy

What if we all felt each other's past?

by: Brooke Moore