Curriculum

Looking Back with Pride

Sharon O’Halloran

ETFO’s 20th anniversary is an opportunity to look back on our remarkable legacy as an organization. Since our formation in 1998, we have worked tirelessly to ensure the health and safety of our members and our students and made important gains for our members through collective bargaining.

Teaching Fairly in an Unfair World, 2nd Edition

By Kathleen Gould Lundy. Pembroke Publishers, 2020. 160 pages, $32.95.

Teaching Tough Topics: How Do I Use Children's Literature to Build a Deeper Understanding of Social Justice, Equity, and Diversity?

By Larry Swartz. Pembroke Publishers, 2020. 144 pages, $24.95.

Taking a Walk Through and About Media Literacy

Chelsea Attwell

Chelsea Attwell reflects on the learning she has done with her students on community walks.

Reflections on Practice

Uloma Onyido

Uloma Onyido writes about participating in Project Overseas.

Imagining Our Sustainable Community

Cynthia Roulston

Cynthia Roulston invites her students to consider what type of development would have the greatest positive environmental and social impacts on their gentrifying community.

Embracing Pluralism

Shamim Murji

Shamim Murji reflects on how an anti-racist and anti-Islamophobia curriculum can create an inclusive classroom.

Back in Time is Not an Option

Erika Shaker

Erika Shaker describes a conversation she had with Grade 7 students about the critical importance of the 2015 health curriculum, its impact on the students’ daily lives and what it means to go back in time to 1998.