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8 Ways to Build a Creative Classroom

Creativity isn’t innate—it’s a cognitive skill that all students can develop with time and the right opportunities. While cultivating a creative classroom may seem intimidating, it doesn’t have to be.

Supporting Teachers New to Inquiry-Based Learning

The shift to inquiry-based learning can present significant challenges. How can teachers best be supported through that transition?

Three Myths About K–5 Online Education (And Why They Don’t Hold Up)

As the Dean of Elementary at a K–12 online private school, I constantly hear several myths about online education that I want to debunk.

Murdoch is Cracking the Case on Student Engagement

Murdoch in the Classroom offers a fresh, distinctly Canadian way to bring story-led, curriculum-connected learning into the classroom.

Why Non-Traditional Formats Count as Real Reading

When we start drawing hard lines around what “real” reading looks like, we lose sight of what actually helps kids become readers in the first place.

How Technology Helped Our School Turn Values into Classroom Practices

It’s one thing to write values on a piece of construction paper and hang it in the front office. It’s another to embed those values into how students learn, interact, and take ownership in the classroom.

What Educators Can Learn from Philadelphia’s Top-Rated Early Education Program

The Greater Philadelphia YMCA offers a comprehensive range of early childhood education programs tailored for children from infancy to preschool.

8 Ways Teachers Can Encourage More Outdoor Play During Recess

For many students, recess may be one of the few opportunities during the day to engage in active, unstructured outdoor play.

Taste the Water: A Teacher’s Ongoing Journey

There comes a point in every educator’s journey when one has to pause and ask, “Am I growing, or am I just repeating what I already know?”

Fixing Assessments So AI Can’t Fake the Messy Middle

When we grade the route, not just the destination, the focus returns to the middle of learning, where it belongs.

Education News

National Program to Bring School Forests and Outdoor Classrooms to Canadian Schools

Re-Nature, a national initiative advancing outdoor classrooms and school forests across Canada, is launching its first cohort of schools in the nation’s capital region.

New Podcast on Retirement, Aging, and Longevity

Are you interested in learning more about retirement? The “Retirement in America” podcast explores the challenges, ideas, and solutions shaping retirement security in the United States.

Jeopardy! Winner Credits High School for Game Show Success 

Perkins, a 2005 graduate of Rosati-Kain Academy, recently competed and won her debut game on the Emmy-winning game show on May 1.

From Commitment to Classrooms: Advancing Refugee Education

UNHCR–TECNO global partnership supports high impact education initiatives for refugee children and youth in East Africa.

Kids Write 4 Kids Creative Writing Contest Celebrates Young Authors Across Canada

Two Grade 6 writers earn publication; expert judges praise the creativity, craft, and heart of a record number of student storytellers.

Classroom Perspectives

Teaching Art History Online: A Visual Journey in the Digital Age

Teaching art history in an entirely online environment has brought a new set of challenges and opportunities that I’ve come to embrace with enthusiasm.

Education Should Be a Partnership. So Why Are Many Families Left in the Dark?

While I believe that assessment data and growth measures matter and that families have a right to this information, it’s the information educators are not required to share that troubles me most.

What Should a Teacher Look Like?

Ever since I was four years old, I dreamed of becoming a teacher. However, I never saw any teachers who shared aspects of my identities.

The Figurative Language Fashion Show: Where Words Walk the Runway

Getting kids to write in this day and age, where entertainment is merely a swipe away, can be like asking them to eat their vegetables.

Anti-racism and Activist Education: Empowering the Next Generation

Educators play a pivotal role in shaping the next generation of changemakers, especially when it comes to addressing racism.

Unleashing Potential: The Many Benefits of Play-Based Learning

The benefits of play-based learning are huge, and we shouldn’t be depriving our children of it just because they are getting older.

The STEM Effect: Transforming Education and Student Success

Certain buzz words and topics come and go in the arena of education. Currently, the word to know is STEM, the acronym for science, technology, engineering, and math.

The Secret to a Quiet Lunch Break: Building Student Relationships

The trick to not using all your personal days during the first month of school is to focus on stopping bad behavior before it starts, instead of punishing students after the fact.

How to Create a Paperless Classroom: Tips for a Digital Learning Environment

Like many of my students, I too use digital devices in my daily personal life, but the enormous piles of notes and paper combined with the constant fighting with the students to put their gadgets away drove me to reevaluate how I could use those very gadgets to my advantage.

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Book Lists

10 Books That Celebrate Queer Voices

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

Retirement Travel: 15+ Places to Visit After You Leave the Classroom

Retirement brings something many people rarely have—time to travel. We’ve gathered a selection of new and soon-to-be-released travel guides to help you choose your latest getaway.

10 Books to Read for National Indigenous History Month

Reflect on the history, diversity, and strengths of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples during National Indigenous History Month with the help of these books.

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Indigenous Education

Is It Time to Update the Citizenship Test?

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.

Laying the Foundation: Treaty Education for Young Students

Teaching junior elementary school students about treaties can be a daunting task for even the most experienced educators.

Healing through Art: The Legacy of the Williams Treaties

As we reflect on the Williams Treaties, their history, and their impact on the communities they affected, we grapple with issues of colonialism, land rights, and healing.

Teaching Truth and Reconciliation: Exploring Residential Schools in Canada

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.

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.

Preparing for a Changing World: Climate Resilience in Schools

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

Exploring Indigenous Culture Through the Senses: A Transformative Learning Experience

At McKenzie Towne School in Alberta, students are learning through touch, scent, and sound with the Indigenous Sensory Box Project.

LGBTQ+

What Is SOGI? Getting the Terminology Right

Gender fluid. Two-spirit. Trans. Cisgender. These are some of the terms students can use to describe where they are on the spectrum of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Safe Haven: The Journey of LGBTQ+ Refugees in Canada

The persistence of violence against LGBTQ+ people in countries where homosexuality is legal remains worrisome and creates a refugee situation that is not that easy to prove.

Growing a Gender-Inclusive Biology Curriculum

Biology is the study of a diverse range of living things, and biology affirms all genders.

A Legacy of Equality: Reflecting on 25 Years of Progress

The Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act was a critical moment in Canada’s history—one that reflected a significant shift in societal attitudes toward LGBTQIA2S+ individuals.

Breaking Boundaries: Women’s Lives In and Out of the Closet

By removing the phrase “male person” from the crime of gross indecency in 1954, the Canadian government declared sex between women a crime.

Changing the Everyday Lives of the LGBTQIA2S+ Community

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

Before Marriage Equality: The Fight for Benefits and Belonging

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.

The Inclusivity Challenge: Is Canada a Just Society?

In my Grade 10 Canadian History course, students explore LGBTQ+ history the same way they explore the stories of many different Canadians in the context of our history.

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

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

Earth & Space Science

6 Virtual Field Trips About Space and the Night Sky

With the help of these field trips, it’s possible to take students on journeys that are "out of this world" without ever having to leave the classroom.

Every Drop Counts: Keeping Water Education Fresh

When students look at the globe and see so much blue, it seems as though there’s an abundance of water. But that's just not true.

Spark Student Interest in Geology with These 8 Field Trips

It’s never too early to get students interested in the vast and complex field of geology. Here are some field trips that can help.

Writing

Why Students Struggle with Writing and How to Help Them Find Their Voice

When writing feels like exposure, I’ve found that students tend to guard their language. This often shows up as hesitation, restraint, and self-editing that have nothing to do with ability.

Helping Students Overcome the “But I’m just not a good writer” Mindset

As soon as I utter the words “writing assignment,” looks of panic appear on my students’ faces. Their hands shoot up like rockets and the questions immediately start.

No Brainer: Using AI in the Classroom

Many AI products impact and improve our daily lives. These AI technologies and products may be beneficial to the teachers in the classroom.

5 Resources to Lend Students a Hand with Their Homework

With the right aids to help them during their moments of struggle, kids might be likely to do better in their homework.

Why Students Struggle with Writing and How to Help Them Find Their Voice

When writing feels like exposure, I’ve found that students tend to guard their language. This often shows up as hesitation, restraint, and self-editing that have nothing to do with ability.

Why Students Hate Writing (From Someone Who Teaches It)

Every year, almost every student says, “I suck at writing. I hate it.” I hear this phrase far more than “Hello,” “Thank you,” or even “Can I use the restroom?”

Teaching the Real Purpose of Writing

In English classes, which require students to sit and read or write for extended periods of time, it can be challenging to get them to want to do their work.