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.

As educators, we aim to create meaningful, exciting, and supportive futures for all of our students. That’s why we must build learning environments where positive disability identities grow.

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.

Educator well-being has suddenly become a buzzword. This isn’t a bad thing—on the contrary, we should have been caring more about the well-being of educators long ago.

When the RCMP Crisis Negotiation Unit visited my high school law class, I expected some interesting guest speakers. What I didn’t expect was just how profoundly they would change the way my students communicated.

Before a student learns to calculate, measure, or code, they must first believe that something new is possible. In that sense, imagination is not a supplement to STEM. It is the beginning of it.

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.

There’s something profoundly meaningful about engaging with the works of Black authors. Their words invite us to reflect, grow, and better understand one another.

Is going to university still worth it? That’s a question I hear more and more often these days. The answer increasingly depends on what a student wants from that degree.

Today’s students are inheriting a world of job disruption. Gone are the days where students could assume specific education will lead to a specific job.

In a world that is striving to create universal accessibility, it’s important that students be exposed to the idea of programming with multiple languages in mind.

Robots aren’t just hobbies for students tinkering in basements or garages anymore. Many schools start robotics classes after seeing how popular the clubs are.

Here are some apps that can get kids excited about coding from a young age.

There is a growing community of educators who have adopted Minecraft as a powerful engagement tool in mainstream subjects like math, science, social studies, and even language arts.

There’s much that can be done to help keep kids safe online. Parents and students can work together on this, and there’s a role for teachers and school administrators as well.

My journey began in Vancouver 30 years ago, as an aid with Trainable Mentally Handicapped students. Designated as ‘uneducable,’ these students were relegated to gaining work experience. Noticing they easily recounted movie plots and the artists and lyrics Top 40 songs, it occurred to me that the real handicap might be a teaching methodology that was incompatible with their learning styles.

How do we prepare students for a world that looks nothing like the one traditional curricula were designed for? Ravi Bhushan, founder of BrightCHAMPS, believes he has part of the answer.

If you ask a kid to draw a scientist, most of them will come up with the same image: an elderly man wearing a lab coat and holding a microscope. It’s a stereotype we all know well.