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Teaching the Modern-Day Relevance of “Fahrenheit 451”

While Bradbury’s novel was originally written over seventy years ago, its themes are more pertinent than ever—especially in the classroom.

Rethinking Continuity: How Looping Can Transform Classrooms

Students perform better when they experience a stable environment with consistent relationships. One way to achieve this is through looping.

Digital Literacy: Helping K–12 Students Learn to Spot Misinformation

How can educators make students aware of the fact that not everything they read or hear online is true?

The Power of Voice: Improving Access to Speech and Debate for All Students

Here’s how one student is providing equitable academic debate opportunities for young people around the world.

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.

Learning About Money Should Feel Less Like Homework and More Like Real Life

It’s time to start rethinking financial education for the digital generation. Here’s how.

How Belonging Fuels Literacy

Literacy achievement does not happen by accident. It grows through intentional choices—decisions made every day about instruction, environment, and relationships.

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.

Teaching Through Connection: The Value of Personal Intelligences in the Classroom

Personal intelligences (interpersonal and intrapersonal) sit at the heart of meaningful language learning.

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.

Education News

Launch of National Youth Apprenticeship Council to Influence Canada’s Skilled Trades Future

The new national Council will bring youth leadership directly into decisions shaping Canada’s skilled trades and apprenticeship system.

New Literacy Solution Helps Districts Engage Families in Improving Reading Outcomes

This structured literacy communication system connects district initiatives, family engagement, and attendance efforts.

Supporting Teachers with Tiny Pep Talks

Teaching is meaningful, important, and filled with joys both big and small. But also, let’s face it, there are days where you could use an extra pep talk (or twenty).

Why We Need to Start Recognizing the Strengths of Sensitive Children

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.

Sustainable Professional Wear for Teachers

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?

Classroom Perspectives

Teaching Kids to Read: Modern Approaches vs. Montessori Method

At first glance, the Montessori method and the Science of Reading appear to be opposing philosophies. But if you look closer, they are in fact surprisingly similar.

Building Blocks That Matter: Forming Positive Relationships with Students and Families

In my classroom, I focus on taking the time to intentionally and thoughtfully form positive and meaningful relationships with my students.

Whose Face Belongs Here? Navigating Race in the World of AI

Teachers need support not only in understanding the tools, but also in managing the ethical, cultural, and emotional complexities that AI brings to the classroom.

Bonjour! Making French Class Fun

Languages other than English have never been top priority in the U.K., so when I was asked to teach French to my entire school, the prospect filled me with excitement.

Transforming the Class with Google Apps

When I reflect on my years working in classrooms with students, I think about how much time it took to access and use essential technology B.G. (before Google). I compare it with what it must have been like for people before electricity and after electricity. B.G.

Change Your Classroom with Gratitude

Often, we forget our students come to class each day with a lot more on their minds than academics. Despite this, my students willingly express gratitude each morning.

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

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

Things I Learned in Teacher’s College

Your time at school will be essential to your teaching life. From my personal experience, I believe the most important part of your teaching program is to do well in your practicum placement.

A Thank You to My Principal, Tim Liles

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.

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Civics

In the Halls of Justice: The Educational Value of Moot Court

“May it please the court.” For the past 13 years, I’ve heard middle and high school students utter these words in a simulated moot court competition.

The Quest to Give Voting Rights to Permanent Residents

In Canada, provincial and territorial governments determine who can vote in municipal elections, and they all currently have laws restricting that right to Canadian citizens.

What Does it Mean to Be a Citizen?

What it means to be a citizen has changed dramatically since the concept first appeared in ancient Greece.

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Library & LLC

How Educators Can Respond to Book Banning 

The tide of intolerance is rising, and once again the reactionary camp wants to throw literature on the pyre, at least metaphorically.

Collaborating in a School with No Library

Do you remember the first time you entered the school library as a child? I do. There were books everywhere.

Making Rose Hip Tea from Scratch: A Math Activity

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

The Benefits of Large Print Books

I thought large print titles would be good for students with visual impairments or for struggling readers. I had no idea how many regular education students would enjoy them too.

Librarians vs. Book Bans: In Defense of Literature

Even in the current political climate, there is much librarians to can do to keep books available—and to keep up their own professional morale.

Turning Pages: Putting the Fun Back Into Reading

By middle school or earlier, many children have lost motivation, confidence, and focus in reading. Where does it all start to go downhill, and what can be done to change that?

Behaviour Management

Get Moving: Helping to Close the Phys Ed. Gap

Although physical education may be on the decline, experts say there are a number of ways for K–12 teachers to help get kids moving.

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.

Movement in the Classroom

After teaching at an alternative middle school for the past 4 years, the one thing I constantly hear from new students is: “We can move around in your room and not get in trouble?

ADHD: Naughty or Neurological?

For K–12 teachers, children who exhibit the signs of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can present a significant classroom challenge.

Giving Conflict Back: The Secret to Effective Restorative Practices

Here’s how I restored an elementary school’s staff culture from a feud 20 years in the making (with help from a 1970s criminologist).

Interrupting and Other “Bad” Class Behaviours

If students are misbehaving in class, there's usually a reason behind that behaviour. It’s an educator’s job to figure out what's going on and find a solution with the student.

The Importance of Taking a “PAWS” for Our Students

A wink to our school’s husky mascot, PAWS Time is a highly engaging, weekly enrichment program that allows our students to “pause”: Practice kindness, Always be safe, make Wise choices, and Show respect.

The Art of Communication: Interpreting Student Drawings

Teachers are currently under an increasing amount of pressure to interpret their students’ drawings and better understand what can indicate a potential threat.

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.

Project-Based Learning

Everything Is Awe-some: Showing Young Students the Power of Awe

The topic of awe couldn’t be more timely. I’ve never seen such an urgent need to address social-emotional issues in and out of the classroom as I do now.

Keeping It Old School: The Retro Arcade Project

I wanted to design a new project that could be about classes working together, communicating, and listening to each other.

Celebrating Heritage: A Student-Led Journey Across Cultures

In today’s diverse classrooms, fostering cultural awareness is essential in order to create inclusive and engaging learning environments

Family Engagement

Strategies Every Teacher Needs for Dealing with Difficult Parents

It’s normal to feel a little apprehensive about meeting with parents, especially if you have to deliver disappointing news. Thankfully, there are many proven strategies for diffusing tense situations.

Free eBook Offers Roadmap to Human-Centered Communication in the Age of AI

The free resource offers districts a roadmap for building strong family engagement during a period of rapid automation in schools.

Building Blocks That Matter: Forming Positive Relationships with Students and Families

In my classroom, I focus on taking the time to intentionally and thoughtfully form positive and meaningful relationships with my students.

Top Tips for Parent-Teacher Interviews

Preparing for parent-teacher interviews can be stressful, especially because teachers often receive little training.

Complex Learning Environments: The ESL Challenge

For K–12 teachers of English as a Second Language, the shifting nature of the ESL population is creating a new set of classroom challenges.

Don’t Quit: Tips for Surviving Teaching

Many people enter education to benefit society, but professional realities can cause some teachers to look for new jobs early into their careers.

Mrs. Kramer’s 1970s Childhood Challenge

It’s said that there is always a blessing in dark times, and this was it: my chance to share my 1970s childhood with 25 children of 2020.