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5 Things Teachers Should Know About Retirement, According to Financial Experts

Many teachers don’t have a detailed financial plan for retirement. But taking a few early steps can make a big difference in how prepared you feel later on.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The Well-Educated Child: An Interview with Deborah Kenny

At a time when teachers are under tremendous pressure to deliver test scores but are concerned about the lack of time for quality teaching, Dr. Deborah Kenny presents a refreshing vision for how schools can produce both.

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.

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

Combating the Global Plastic Crisis Through Project-Based Learning

Classrooms around the world transition into centers of innovation as the Unplastify Challenge culminates in student-led strategies for plastic pollution prevention.

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).

Classroom Perspectives

Creating a Reading Culture (Even When You’re Low on Time and Funds)

"Why read when you can watch the movie?" In my eight years as an educator, no other sentiment has been quite so crushing to hear from children.

Re-Seeing Revision: Using ChatGPT as a Partner, Not a Shortcut

When introduced as a revision partner, ChatGPT can be a valuable classroom tool, encouraging students to think more deeply, expand their ideas, and strengthen the clarity and organization of their writing.

Teaching in the Year of COVID: A Reflection

In-person instruction has been a common source of stress during what I have dubbed “The Year of COVID,” with instructions on how to teach changing by the second.

That’s a Rap: Using Hip-Hop as a Tool for Learning

I, among other things, define myself as a rapper, and it’s a fact of which my students are all too aware.

How Screens Affect Kids’ Circadian Rhythms

I see sleepy kids every day in my 8th grade English class. Their heads are drooping. Their eyes are barely open. Their energy is low.

Leading Our School’s First (and Last) Justice Committee

When my principal asked if I would like to lead our school’s new Justice, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee, I was both surprised and delighted.

5 Ways to Teach Empathy for Children of All Ages

Many 21st-century employers argue that empathy is at the heart of success. But how do we teach students to master a skill that’s rooted in emotion instead of fact?

Discover Your Teaching Style: Are You More Like a Cat or Dog?

I recently observed a high school science lesson that left me feeling like I had just swished some super-minty Listerine. I was refreshed. I was inspired…so much so, in fact, that I built and entire upcoming PD session around my takeaway from this lesson. I will return to this in just a moment.

Sparking Communication in Autistic Students

As the assistant head of special education at Vaughan Secondary School in the Toronto area, Tim Wesson describes his professional learning journey as one driven by the desire to improve the standard of living for autistic students and to seek ways to build partnerships in the school community.

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Earth Week Book Lists

10 Books About Environmental Conservation for Children and Teens

Inspire students to take action against climate change, plastic pollution, and Earth’s water crisis with these environmental-themed books.

7 Books That Explore the Importance of Trees

As we watch forests transform from lush curtains of green into vibrant shades of red and gold, what better time to read some tree-themed books?

10 Essential Climate Action Books for Kids

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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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.

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.

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.

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?

Environmental Education

Natural History Institute and Prescott College Partner to Offer Naturalist Certification Program

The unique Mogollon Highlands Naturalist Certification program is designed to cultivate deep connections to nature, place, and community through the practice of natural history.

Carbon Neutral: Messages of Hope

At a time when it would be easy to scare them silly, educators need to empower kids instead. They need to know that change is possible.

5 Field Trips to Get Students Out of the Classroom and Into Nature

Wildlife ecology, habitat analysis, and fossil examination are just of few of the curriculum-linked topics covered in these nature-based field trips.

7 Flower Farms and Gardens to Visit This Spring

These floriculture-based field trips present a perfect opportunity for children to delve into the marvels of nature, exploring plant biology, pollination, and ecosystems through the vibrant language of flowers.

12 Books to Read for World Water Day and Beyond

This collection of children’s books will surely make a splash in your classroom or library for World Water Day—and every day after that!

10 Picture Books About Wildlife

These books help raise discussions with students about animal welfare, endangered species, and the diverse array of wildlife around the world.

7 Conservation Area Field Trips to Immerse Students in Nature

Engaging with the outdoors allows children to form a lasting bond with nature, and also helps them understand the responsibility they have to sustain it.

Growing Minds: How Gardens Are Transforming Schools and Classrooms

Part of creating a great outdoor space is about tailoring curriculum, and part is about landscape design.

Here’s How Captain Sandy Is Raising Awareness of Careers in the Marine Industry

Reality TV star and superyacht captain Sandy Yawn speaks with us about how her educational program is creating opportunities for young people to thrive in the maritime industry.

Behaviour Management

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 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 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.

Political Science

Model UN and the Art of Diplomacy

The Model UN Club found me in 2013 in the shape of two very keen Grade 9 girls making a pitch to me at lunch about the need for more women in politics.

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.

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.

The Solitudes of English and French: A History of Separation and Unity

Today relations between English- and French-speakers in Canada are and have been peaceful for some time. But this was not always the case.

Canada Speaks Softly But Persuasively: Notable Canadian Ambassadors

Canada’s ambassador to the UN is frequently seen as the face of Canadian diplomacy, who often brings his or her personal style and values to the role.

Guardians of Global Peace: Is Peacekeeping Still Relevant?

Given the United Nations mandate to maintain international peace and security, the question of the relevance of peacekeeping missions seems ironic.

Inventing Global Cooperation: A Brief History of the United Nations

Getting students to understand the role the UN plays in the world is one step. Teaching its history and the role that Canada has played can be a much more complicated endeavour.