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Education Canada’s Summer 2010 Edition is Now Available
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The Big Ideas Behind Whole System Reform
Michael Fullan
Professor Emeritus at OISE/UT and Special Advisor on Education to Ontario’s Premier, Dalton McGuintyWhole system reform means that every vital part of the system – school, community, district, and government – contributes individually and in concert to forward movement and success, using practice, not research, as the driver of reform. With this in mind, Fullan shares several “big ideas”, based on successful implementation, which informed Ontario’s reform strategy.
Self-Regulation: Calm, Alert, and LearningStuart Shanker
Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology and Director of the Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative at York UniversityIn the simplest terms, self-regulation can be defined as the ability to stay calmly focused and alert, which often involves – but cannot be reduced to – self-control. The better a child can stay calmly focused and alert, the better he integrates the diverse information coming in from his different senses, assimilates it, and sequences his thoughts and actions. In this article, Shanker provides a detailed account of what self-regulation is and why is it so important for learning.
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Odyssey Conference 2010
Comments Off on Odyssey Conference 2010Organized by the Ontario Principals’ Council, this year’s Odyssey Conference is entitled Inclusive Leadership – Engaging Your School Community. Presentation topics include: engaging students, teachers and parents, community support partnerships, inclusive programs and programs supporting mental health initiatives. For full details visit the conference website.
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Early Childhood Education: An International Perspective
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Joining-up and Scaling-up: A Vision for Early Childhood Education and Care
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Social Determinants of Educational Outcomes in Indigenous Learners
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The I-C.A.R.E. Experience: Promoting School Safety and Prosocial Behaviour
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Digital Storytelling: Preserving a Cultural Tradition
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Holding on to our Kids in a Peer Culture
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Back to the Future: John Dewey, Jacques Delors, and the New Brain Science
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Seeing With Both Eyes/Double regard
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Ethical Leadership in Public Education: Living an Ethic of Criticality
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Nourishing the Learning Spirit: Living our Way to New Thinking
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Imaginative Education Engages Aboriginal Learners in Prince Rupert
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Seven Oaks Met School Builds Curriculum Around Each Student, Imaginative Education Engages Aboriginal Learners in Prince Rupert
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New School Answers the Question: What Do We Value?
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Canadian Foundations Invest Cautiously in Public Schools Innovation, WIER: An Innovative Online Writer’s Salon Marks 20-plus Years
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Online ATM Helps Youth Smarten Up Around Spending
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Finally, The Student as Priority/Enfin, l’élève en priorité
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