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Classroom Perspectives

“I Don’t Like You”: The Moment That Shaped My Teaching Journey

The child stepped closer and closer until she paused just two feet away, locking eyes with me. “I don’t like you,” she declared, then kicked me in the leg and casually strolled back to the playground.
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Mental Health and Well-being

Empowering Learners Starts Within: The Key to Unlocking Their Full Potential

When we prioritize emotional health, we don’t just teach students—we empower them to lead, to dream, and to thrive.
Canadian Studies

Free Resources from Canada’s Parliament

To support educators, the Parliament of Canada offers free, bilingual, and classroom-ready resources that can help kickstart conversations about democracy and government.
Classroom Perspectives

The Most Powerful Reading Tool? Passion

Here’s how a student’s plea to save the bees helped me become a better reading teacher.
Fundraising

How Schools Can Lead Community Fundraising Initiatives

As a teacher or school administrator, you’re shaping future citizens who understand empathy, collaboration, and civic responsibility. Community fundraising initiatives offer a powerful way to do all three at once.
Research

Absenteeism Is Predictable. We Must Learn to Read the Patterns.

Absenteeism is predictable. The signs are there. You just need to know how to read them.
Careers and Guidance

What Impact Is AI Having on the College Search Process?

AI is powerful when it can help students access information and make better choices, however, it can also be problematic.
Education News

Why Eighth-Grade Algebra Access Matters

Access to eighth-grade algebra is far from equal. Many students never get the chance to take it before high school, even when they’re ready.
Opinion

Professional Learning in 2026: Balancing Innovation, Coherence, and Teacher Voice

The traditional model of mandated, one‑size‑fits‑all workshops is giving way to professional learning that is more responsive, curriculum-aligned, and customized to each educator’s experience and goals.
Science

Sparking Curiosity: How to Transform STEM Learning in Your Classroom

What if getting students interested in STEM doesn’t require different assessments or an entirely new curriculum? What if the real shift comes from rethinking how we invite students to experience STEM in the first place?

Education News

Book Lists

Why We Need to Start Recognizing the Strengths of Sensitive Children

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I was a boy in Texas in the 1980s. At that time, young men were expected to grow into cowboys or firefighters or G.I. Joes.
Education News

Sustainable Professional Wear for Teachers

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Teachers make hundreds of decisions every day. Yet one of the earliest decisions happens quietly at home each morning: What am I going to wear today?
Education News

Key Forces Shaping K–12 Learning in 2026

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The annual report identifies the top challenges schools must overcome, trends driving innovation, and tools transforming teaching and learning this year.
Education News

Indoor Air Quality Policies to Make Schools Healthier and More Energy Efficient

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In “A Win-Win for Lung Health,” the American Lung Association outlines ten recommendations to improve energy efficiency and ensure healthy indoor air quality.
American Studies

Connecticut State Department of Education Launches New Music-Infused High School Humanities Course

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Developed in partnership with TeachRock, the classroom-ready “Course in a Box” An American History of Rock and Soul offers districts an arts-integrated model course aligned to state standards.

Classroom Perspectives

How to Show Students You Respect Them

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You see, here’s the thing that some of us – teachers and parents alike – don’t really take time to stop and think about: kids’ feelings have value too. And they all have their own needs and wants at any given time.

Critical Thinking and the Questioning of History Texts

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While teaching a Western Civilization course to high school students, I found a unique opportunity to introduce the topic of critical thinking along with the subject matter.

“Why Aren’t We Taught About Investments in School?” Rethinking Financial Education for K–8 Students

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I believe it is vital for some form of investment education, along with the other elements of financial literacy, to exist in every school. In every classroom.

Engaging Autistic Students with the Arts

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Ask any educator who has welcomed multiple learners with autism into his or her classroom, and you will find there is no set formula for ensuring academic success.

The Value of Behavior Commerce: Rethinking How We Support Emotional Growth in Schools

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After 25 years in special education classrooms, I’ve learned something our current education system doesn’t always want to admit: the most important work students do each day often goes unseen.

Serenity, A Personal Essay on Standardized Testing

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“I went into teaching so that I could help children perform well on standardized testing,” said no teacher, ever.

Breaking the Rules: How Giving Students More Choice Transformed My Teaching

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When I told my fifth-grade class that they were old enough to take charge of their own learning, something unexpected happened.

Social Dynamics and Black Culture: How to Effectively Reach and Teach Black Students

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In my role as a Black counselor in an educational setting, I am tasked with the unspoken responsibility of “handling” Black children.

TikTok and Teenage Pedagogy: Engaging Gen Z with Trauma and Nervous System Literacy

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These days, the reality is that plenty of young people are learning about mental health online, often through social media platforms like TikTok.
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Book Lists

10 Essential Climate Action Books for Kids

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These books help educate students about the science of climate change, while also introducing them to everyday people around world who are working towards a more sustainable planet.
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Women in Sports: 19 Inspiring Reads for Students

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In anticipation of the upcoming Summer Olympic Games, we have compiled a list of books that showcase the stories of female athletes—both real and fictional.
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15 New and Upcoming Books for Student Activists

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To help you inspire your students to become agents of change, we’ve gathered these books that focus on different forms of activism.
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Indigenous Education

All My Relations: Worldviews of Indigenous Peoples in Canada

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Over the past 15 years, I’ve had many discussions about what it means to be Anishinaabe. I’ve talked to my relatives across Treaty 3 and beyond.

Preparing for a Changing World: Climate Resilience in Schools

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It is important to consider how schools are responding to climate change not just in the classroom, but on a practical level as well.

Learning from History: Teaching the Treaties to High School Students

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All people living collectively in Canada are “treaty people,” meaning that we all have rights and responsibilities for this land we call home.

Is It Time to Update the Citizenship Test?

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For many newcomers to Canada, their first impression of the First Peoples of Canada often comes in the form of an outdated study guide for the citizenship test.

Making Rose Hip Tea from Scratch: A Math Activity

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This collaboration between the Library Learning Commons, a Grade 9 math teacher, and Indigenous Education blossomed into a beautiful place-conscious learning opportunity.

Teaching Truth and Reconciliation: Exploring Residential Schools in Canada

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As the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s mandate ends, there’s a greater emphasis on teaching Aboriginal content in schools. If this scares you, you’re not alone. If it inspires you, you’re not alone either.
Canadian Studies

Éy Swáyel! Welcoming Indigenous Pedagogy as a Canadian Educator 

As an educator in Canada, whose homeland has been inhabited by Indigenous peoples long before me, I have the opportunity and responsibility to teach this history to my students.

Special Education

The Value of Behavior Commerce: Rethinking How We Support Emotional Growth in Schools

After 25 years in special education classrooms, I’ve learned something our current education system doesn’t always want to admit: the most important work students do each day often goes unseen.

Engaging Autistic Students with the Arts

Ask any educator who has welcomed multiple learners with autism into his or her classroom, and you will find there is no set formula for ensuring academic success.

How to Boost Participation in Physical Activity for Autistic Youth

Researchers investigating how to increase participation in physical activity by autistic children say key strategies include creating predictable routines, involving family members, and ensuring safe and sensory-friendly spaces.

How Data Sharing Can Help Struggling Readers

When I first created the reading test, it was supposed to simply track student progress. But I quickly discovered that sharing the results of my personal tracking system with students has completely changed their engagement and motivation levels.

How to Calm Explosive Student Behaviour

An inability to function socially or emotionally is as much of a learning disability as the inability to read. The tragedy of our time is that few people recognize it as such.

Unseen Struggles: The Obstacles to Diagnosing Learning Disabilities in Children

It is not uncommon for a student to struggle with newly learned material. The question we need to ask is when does it become problematic?

Failure to Communicate: Ending School Violence

What can be done when facing violence in the classroom? There is no one right answer. It often depends on the student and their individual needs.

Navigating Dyslexia: How to Help Kids Succeed in School and Beyond

Technology can be a classroom boon for those who are dyslexic. Computer-based experiences can promote social emotional learning, while apps can help to promote reading skills.

5 Apps to Help Students Learn Sign Language

Introduce your students—and yourself—to the world of ASL with the help of these fun and engaging apps.

Social Media

How to Avoid the Self-Esteem Trap of Social Media

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Social media poses a range of psychological risks, especially issues of body image. But there are practical steps K–12 educators can take to offset those risks.
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TikTok and Teenage Pedagogy: Engaging Gen Z with Trauma and Nervous System Literacy

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These days, the reality is that plenty of young people are learning about mental health online, often through social media platforms like TikTok.
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The Upside of Social Media: A Focus on Its Positive Potentials

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Kids today are technology-savvy, but they need to be guided in asking the right questions about the content they produce and consume.
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LGBTQ+

Book Lists

From Exclusion to Inclusion: Teaching Equity Through Books

Books used in the classroom remind us that education is most powerful when it affirms the dignity of every child. Paired with history, inquiry, and compassion, they create a foundation for inclusion that reaches far beyond the school walls.

Changing the Everyday Lives of the LGBTQIA2S+ Community

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For LGBTQIA2S+ Canadians, the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act has meant a complete shift from legal exclusion to inclusion.

Education for Everyone: 25 Years of Inclusivity

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The broader societal impact of the Modernization of Benefit and Obligations Act helped set the stage for changes in education and LGBTQIA2S+ representation in Canadian schools.

Uncomfortable Truths: What If Santa Claus Was Gay?

Christine L. Cho - 0
There is a world out there for which we are preparing our children, and that world includes people who identify as LGBTQ+.

10 Books That Celebrate Queer Voices

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As LGBTQ+ rights are increasingly targeted around the world, there’s never been a more crucial time to uplift and celebrate queer stories.

Recognizing Same-Sex Couples: Bill C-23, Explained

Nupur Bagoria - 0
Bill C-23, titled the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act, was a landmark moment in Canada’s history.

Before Marriage Equality: The Fight for Benefits and Belonging

Carolyn Gruske - 0
Twenty-five years after the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act, three central figures reflect on the legal and personal struggles that paved the way for LGBTQIA2S+ rights, freedoms, and equality in Canada.

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