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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Engaging with Banned Books

As book bans increased across the nation, we wanted to counter the narrative that books are dangerous. We sought to collect research and essays on how books fostered understanding, built community, and healed emotional and physical trauma.

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.

Classroom Perspectives

Starting a School Rubik’s Cube Club

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.

How Cooperative Learning Made Me A Better Teacher

Let’s begin with the realization that what we all inherently understand is indeed true: kids are different today than they were when we were younger. You hear this stated by colleagues and, if you’re like me, from your own mouth quite frequently. The fact is, they are.

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.

5 Playful Exercises to Instill Writing Confidence in Young Students

As a third-grade teacher, I’ve dealt with my fair share of reluctant writers. But when faced with one particularly resistant student, I decided it was time to step out of my comfort zone.

Let Me Tell You a Funny Story… Teaching ESL with Laughs, Not Lectures

In my current role as an ESL teacher, I’ve found that nothing draws students in, holds their attention, and helps them remember quite like a story.

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

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.

6 Steps for Remembering Students’ Names in Less than a Week

Over the years, I’ve developed the following steps to help myself remember the names of my students. These tips can be used by any type of teacher at any grade level.

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.

Drugs and the Classroom: A Teacher’s Strategy

This past year, in a small Midwest community, we lost a student to a drug overdose. We have lost many more to drug addiction, and although we haven’t attended their funerals, they are no longer the students we once knew, while some are unrecognizable.

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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

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.

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.

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.

Engaging with Banned Books

As book bans increased across the nation, we wanted to counter the narrative that books are dangerous. We sought to collect research and essays on how books fostered understanding, built community, and healed emotional and physical trauma.

The Evolving Role of Librarians

These days, more schools are transforming traditional libraries into learning commons—places where students collaborate and participate in learning.

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.

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

Should Schools Suspend Suspensions?

A growing chorus of educators and researchers have lately come together to urge schools away from suspension as a way to tame repeat classroom offenders.

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.

Teacher Survey Shows “Zen Zones” Are Far More Desired than AI/Tech Spaces

As conversations about education increasingly center on technology and innovation, many teachers across the country are seeking educational environments that foster a sense of connection and calm for students.

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.

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.

The End of Discipline in the Classroom

The current thinking on discipline is preemptive, rather than reactive. Change how you run your classroom, experts suggest, and discipline issues will no longer be a problem.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Over Your Head: Digital Barriers in the Classroom

It is widely accepted that digital tools and resources are vital to students’ success in the modern world. It is also widely believed that the only barrier to access is money.

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.

Top Tips for Parent-Teacher Interviews

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

New Automated Early Warning System Identifies At-Risk Students Months Before They Become Chronically Absent

New features in SchoolStatus Attend platform flag risk within 60 days to help educators intervene earlier, ensuring no student slips through the cracks.

New Literacy Solution Helps Districts Engage Families in Improving Reading Outcomes

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

The Secret to Thriving Schools? Parents Who Feel Safe and Heard

To create a culture of safety and help parents feel confident sending their children to school, school leaders must communicate with families about the safety measures that are in place.