Educators play a pivotal role in shaping the next generation of changemakers, especially when it comes to addressing racism.

I started my teaching career at a public middle school in Toronto about two decades ago. At that time, I was not comfortable being personally out to my students.

Are graphic novels a lesser form of writing? Parents and children often have opposing views when it comes to this unique and beautifully crafted type of literature.

When you have a teacher who has presence, students are impacted in ways that positively affect the class. But what exactly is teacher presence?

In my classes I use a team-structured, project-based approach to teach history and civics. It’s an approach that covers nearly all the bases.

Teaching is a great responsibility. I teach English and believe that the ability to communicate, at a personal and societal level, is what builds strong communities and ensures ownership over one’s future. Thus, it’s important that we teachers spend a lot of time on our craft—deliberating the best ways to teach and make lessons fun, interactive, and relatable to students. Professional development thrives on discipline pedagogy and school departments meet to align goals and assignments and to discuss data assessment.

After my first week of being in a long-term occasional role, it became very clear to me that learning about being in the classroom is not the same as actually being in the classroom.

We ask students questions all day long, but how do we know they are actually helping students learn and, more importantly, getting them to think?

Ask any educator who has welcomed multiple learners with autism into his or her classroom, and you will find there is no set formula for ensuring academic success.