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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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

“I Don’t Like You”: The Moment That Shaped My Teaching Journey

The child stepped closer and closer until she paused just two feet away, locking eyes with me. “I don’t like you,” she declared, then kicked me in the leg and casually strolled back to the playground.

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.

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.

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

Serenity, A Personal Essay on Standardized Testing

“I went into teaching so that I could help children perform well on standardized testing,” said no teacher, ever.

A Lesson on Empathy: Refugees and the UN Rights of a Child

During our staff meeting that afternoon, my colleagues and I learned our school had six new students who were Syrian refugees.

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.

Stories from the Stage: How Drama Education Shapes Global Citizens

Drama is far more than a performance-based art. It is a dynamic educational tool that improves students’ capacity to understand perspectives far removed from their own.

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.

The Classroom Economy: Teaching Fourth Graders About Inflation

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.

Expressive Writing on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

My students needed to experience success. And they needed to see that their writing could impact a broader audience than the one held captive each day in their classroom.

Flipping the Script: Using Comics and Creative Play to Boost ESL Confidence

On paper, the students I was teaching had a solid grasp of grammar, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. Yet, when it came to speaking, they froze.

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.

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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

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.

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 Evolving Role of Librarians

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

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

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.

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.

Dealing with Aggression in the Classroom

It seems that when education becomes a less positive experience, school climate suffers, and students become angrier and more confrontational.

Navigating Negativity: Conflict Resolution in the Classroom

Conflict-resolution skills don’t come naturally. They are learned, observed, and practiced. The classroom is a great place to safely work on these skills.

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?

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).

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 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.

How to Calm Explosive Student Behaviour

An inability to function socially or emotionally is as much of a learning disability as the inability to read. The tragedy of our time is that few people recognize it as such.

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.

Top Tips for Parent-Teacher Interviews

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

Attend Today, Achieve Tomorrow: Addressing the School Attendance Problem

Student absences are not a new issue in education, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have only added to this growing problem.

Unseen Struggles: The Obstacles to Diagnosing Learning Disabilities in Children

It is not uncommon for a student to struggle with newly learned material. The question we need to ask is when does it become problematic?

Distance Learning: How Will We Get Through This?

Teachers and parents are scrabbling for the right tools to help them with managing students. Too many are coming up empty-handed in this new world of distance learning.

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.

Can Teachers Partner with Families for Student Success?

Family engagement is an evidence-based solution that promotes wide-ranging benefits like reduced chronic absenteeism, and improved social and emotional skills.