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Assessment and Evaluation

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.
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Classroom Perspectives

How Slam Poetry Transforms the FSL Classroom

My FSL classroom is rarely quiet. There’s laughter, music, performance, and sometimes a bit of chaos, but it’s the productive kind. On poetry unit days, students sit congregated in groups, and they transform the space into a “scène de slam.”
Canadian Studies

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.
Technology

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.
Mental Health and Well-Being

Mental Health and Student Attendance: The Intervention Hiding in Plain Sight

A punitive response to a late or absent student, the recorded tardy, the “you’re late again,” doesn’t just fail to help. It adds to the weight a struggling student is already carrying.
New Teachers

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?
Opinion

Grading Attendance Fails Young Caregivers

There are over a million young caregivers in Canada, and newly proposed legislation could make the educational journeys of these students worse.
Reading and Literacy

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.
Diversity

In Times of Extreme Political Polarization, Here’s How Teachers Can Support the Most Vulnerable Students

Over the past year, our most vulnerable students across the U.S. have been under attack. While the current administration systematically dismantles the Department of Education, these students still show up at school every day.
Sponsored

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.

Education News

Education News

From Commitment to Classrooms: Advancing Refugee Education

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

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

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

ReadBright Literacy Tools Earn Bronze Efficacy Certification from EduEvidence

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This independent certification recognizes that ReadBright aligns with the Science of Reading and meets rigorous standards for evidence-based instructional design.
Education News

Teaching Children to Be Better, More Critical Internet Users

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McGill researchers designed and then tested a program that was shown to improve elementary students’ digital literacy skills.
Education News

Common Sense Media Launches Youth AI Safety Institute

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The first-of-its-kind AI safety lab focused on children will independently test AI products, broadly publish the results, and set clear standards to protect the safety, health, and development of a generation growing up with AI.

Classroom Perspectives

Starting a School Rubik’s Cube Club

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Are you interested in improving student engagement with your ELL students? Here’s an idea that I tried at my elementary school that was both fun and successful—a Rubik’s Cube club.

Accepting My Stutter Made Me a Better Teacher

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Stuttering is a hidden disability that affects up to 9% of children, meaning it's likely that many teachers will encounter a student with this speech impediment in their classroom.

Planting Seeds of Knowledge: Life Lessons from an Educational Farm

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Waynesboro Education Farm is an ambitious project. It sits on 1.5 acres of land adjacent to Berkeley Glenn Elementary school in the city of Waynesboro, VA.

The Classroom Economy: Teaching Fourth Graders About Inflation

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Over the years, I’ve found one of the best ways to help kids understand how an economy works is to have them take an active role in managing their own money.

Explorations in Biology Through Origami, 3D Modeling, and Optical Illusions

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Blending art and biology through hands-on paper-folding activities is a fun and unique way to engage students at the elementary level.

A Thank You to My Principal, Tim Liles

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When our school received the news that our principal had passed from a private battle with brain cancer, it shook the staff, students, and entire community to the core.

Key Lessons We Can Learn from High School Musicals

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Musicals form an important part of the arts, serving as powerful resources for student learning, engagement, and motivation.

“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.

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

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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.
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Book Lists

Juneteenth Reading List: 9 Books for Kids and Teens

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These recently-released books can help students learn more about the history of Juneteenth and the lived realities of Black people in America, both past and present.
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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.
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10 Books to Read for National Indigenous History Month

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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

What Is a Treaty?

Krista Nerland - 0
Treaties are agreements between Indigenous nations and the government. They provide a potential framework for co-existence on the land that is now called Canada.

Éy Swáyel! Welcoming Indigenous Pedagogy as a Canadian Educator 

Nikita Griffioen - 0
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.

Is It Time to Update the Citizenship Test?

Kelly Boutsalis - 0
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.

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.

Preparing for a Changing World: Climate Resilience in Schools

Krystal Kavita Jagoo - 0
It is important to consider how schools are responding to climate change not just in the classroom, but on a practical level as well.

Providing Easy Access to Curriculum-Aligned Indigenous Resources

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Ontario’s Niagara Catholic District School Board and Nelson partnered together to support educators who are teaching subjects with Indigenous content.
Classroom Perspectives

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+

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.

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.

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.

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.

Teaching Kids About Pride

I started my teaching career at a public middle school in Toronto about two decades ago. At that time, I was not comfortable being personally out to my students.

“Try to Lay Low”: Growing Up Gay Pre-1969 Canada

It isn’t easy to teach the history of homosexuality in Canada. We interviewed three gay men who were there and remember what it was like growing up before Decriminalization.

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.

Uncomfortable Truths: What If Santa Claus Was Gay?

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

Assessment & Evaluation

When Plagiarism Meets Policy: How an Academic Dishonesty Case Taught Me an Important Lesson

Feon Chau -
During my time as a program coordinator, I learned a lesson that has stuck with me ever since: school values don’t collapse in one dramatic moment, but rather erode one decision at a time.
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Reframing Student Data for Growth

Dr. Yuvraj Verma and Rachel Campbell -
A growth mindset is the belief that abilities grow through effort and persistence. This mindset shapes how we view data.
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Beyond Grades: Empowering Student Learning Through Self-Assessment

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What if the problem isn’t just how students respond to feedback, but how we deliver it? What if, instead of handing out scores, we gave students the opportunity—and the space—to reflect on their learning?
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Black Voices

Black Voices

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

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

A Seat at the Table: Equality in the Classroom

Colleen Elep and Chad Mills - 0
We may believe we are creating inclusive, “multicultural” teaching environments, all while being completely unaware of the systemic racism that still impacts our students.

“Why Are All the Black Kids in the Hall?”

Jamelle Newsome - 0
In a school made up of just 10% African American students, after the bell rang, more than half of the students still in the halls were African American. This made me wonder if Black kids are allowed to roam the halls all over America’s urban landscape.

Becoming Black: Reconciling Race Relations as an Afro-Caribbean Educator

Deziree Baker - 0
As a Caribbean immigrant educator, I have had to adapt to the United States in several ways—racially, socially, and academically.

Juneteenth Reading List: 9 Books for Kids and Teens

Kelsey McCallum - 0
These recently-released books can help students learn more about the history of Juneteenth and the lived realities of Black people in America, both past and present.

Safe Haven: The Journey of LGBTQ+ Refugees in Canada

Alex Newman - 0
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.

Beyond the Map: Engaging with Complex Histories to Support Critical Place-Based Learning

Matthew Panozzo, Lara Condon, Keishana Barnes, Anna Falkner and Carolyn Michael-Banks “Queen” - 0
As educators, we are rarely asked to sit with the histories of our city and consider how they influence our pedagogy, curriculum, and relationship with the community.

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