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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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

How to Show Students You Respect Them

You see, here’s the thing that some of us – teachers and parents alike – don’t really take time to stop and think about: kids’ feelings have value too. And they all have their own needs and wants at any given time.

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.

Shakespearean Teaching Strategies: Bringing Wisdom into the Classroom

I have gleaned three wise teachings from King Lear's fool and each one informs my practice in the classroom more and more each day.

From Exclusion to Inclusion: Teaching Equity Through Books

Books used in the classroom remind us that education is most powerful when it affirms the dignity of every child. Paired with history, inquiry, and compassion, they create a foundation for inclusion that reaches far beyond the school walls.

“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.

Making High School More Relevant: A Life Skills Approach

The integration of practical, relevant life skills into the curriculum not only improves engagement, but also increases emotional well-being and real-world readiness.

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.

Read-Aloud Mentors: From Reluctant Readers to Inspiring Leaders

As a newer interventionist, I faced a formidable task: engage reluctant readers and address their needs with minimal resources for an entire 90 minutes.

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.

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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

The Evolving Role of Librarians

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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 Art of Communication: Interpreting Student Drawings

Teachers are currently under an increasing amount of pressure to interpret their students’ drawings and better understand what can indicate a potential threat.

The Trials and Tribulations of Substitute Teaching

Many substitute teachers like me can teach a different grade every single day, from K–12. It can be challenging, to say the least.

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.

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.

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.

New Literacy Solution Helps Districts Engage Families in Improving Reading Outcomes

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

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.

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.

Digital Pipeline: To Home and Back

Parents and caretakers are faced with helping their children navigate the digital world. As educators how do we support them?

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.