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Diversity, Leadership, Opinion, School CommunityEdwire

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

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, OpinionEdwire

Motivation and Mastery – The Problem with Grand Goals

by: Bruce Beairsto

Equity, Leadership, Opinion, School CommunityEdwire

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

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, OpinionEdwire

Motivation and Mastery – The Problem with Deferred Data

by: Bruce Beairsto

Equity, Leadership, Opinion, School CommunityEdwire

“Hello Equity, we’d like to introduce you to Accountability”

If real change and equity are the goal, we must treat education in a similar way to how we treat medicine

by: Jeff Kugler

Assessment, Diversity, Leadership, Opinion, School Community, TeachingEdwire

Canadian Education Wire – Effects of Ministerial Belt Tightening Felt by Current and Would-be Teachers

A busy week of education media focusing on the fallout from Ministerial education budget cuts in several provinces, a case for year round schooling, and language learning in Nunavut.

by: Max Cooke

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, OpinionEdwire

What is the question?

Politics get in the way of improving learning for ALL learners

by: Brooke Moore

Leadership, Opinion, School CommunityEdwire

Canadian EdWire – The back-to-school media crush begins

Advice on curbing back-to-school anxiety, homework meltdowns, and paying for school essentials, except in B.C., where a high-stakes labour dispute is ready to unfold.

by: Max Cooke

Curriculum, Leadership, Opinion, School CommunityEdwire

Monkey-see…Monkey-do

Why the structure of public education is at odds with the needs of its clients

by: Peter H. Hennessy

Leadership, Policy, Well at WorkWell at Work

WEBINAR: Leading Schools in the COVID19 Era: What have we learned so far?

by: Pamela Osmond-Johnson, Dr. Ann Lopez, Jackie Button

Assessment, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, TeachingEdwire

Improving Assessment and Reporting with Performance Standards

by: Bruce Beairsto

EdTech & Design, Leadership, OpinionEdwire

Innovation requires the understanding that learning takes place every day; everywhere.

For real change – dramatic change – systemic change – change has to happen at the policy level – with the elected – at all levels.

by: Sandi Urban-Hall

Curriculum, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices, School CommunityEdwire

Isolating public education from the shifting winds of politics

The Education Reform Movement

by: Peter H. Hennessy

Equity, Leadership, Opinion, PathwaysEdwire

Equity Begins with Education

A different approach is required to increase postsecondary participation rates, as money alone will not work

by: Harvey Weingarten