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Assessment, Equity, Indigenous Learning, OpinionEdwire

Cdn EdWire – First Nations Schooling Inequities, PCAP Fallout, and Ongoing Bullying Dilemma

Over the last month, the education media have highlighted some serious issues and shortcomings in our public education systems, while shedding some light on what innovation looks like in the classroom.

by: Max Cooke

Assessment, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising PracticesEdwire

Setting the End of the Year Awards Table

Has Your Guest List Changed Over the Years?

by: Stephen Hurley

Assessment, Leadership, Opinion, Policy, Promising Practices, School CommunityEdwire

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

Assessment, Opinion, TeachingEdwire

Professionals Don’t Use Marks to Motivate

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Curriculum, Diversity, EdCan Network, Opinion, Policy, Promising PracticesEdwire

Placing Value on Citizenship Education in a Dog-Eat-Dog World

Confront barriers to change by educating active citizens for a democratic society

by: Peter H. Hennessy

Assessment, Engagement, Equity, Opinion, PolicyEdwire

PCAP 2010 – Are we asking the right questions?

PCAP, just like PISA, doesn’t take approaches to learning, student engagement, and teaching environments into account in comparing provinces.

by: Ron Canuel

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion, TeachingEdwire

Teachers Need Feedback Too

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Opinion, Promising Practices, School CommunityEdwire

Nova Scotia Report Cards make an odd bit of summer reading

by: Grant Frost

Assessment, EdTech & Design, Equity, OpinionEdwire

Ways and Means

Income inequality most assuredly goes to the heart of the equity-in-education issue

by: Peter H. Hennessy

Assessment, EdCan Network, Opinion, Promising Practices, TeachingEdwire

Let’s Be Honest: One Maguire Moment and 26 Teacher Voices

We need to face the reality that our job in education is to SUPPORT the learner

by: Dr. Valerie Irvine

Assessment, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, TeachingEdwire

Up With Reporting

by: Bruce Beairsto

Assessment, Opinion, Pathways, TeachingEdwire

Cdn EdWire – Edmonton ‘Zeros’ In On Grading and Assessment Practices

A teacher suspended for giving students zeros touches off an emotional and polarizing discussion among educators and the public about no-zero policies.

by: Max Cooke

Assessment, Engagement, Opinion, TeachingEdwire

Increasing Student Learning

Are You Teaching for Understanding or Teaching by Tell & Do?

by: Lori Cullen