Taking a Walk Through and About Media Literacy
Chelsea Attwell reflects on the learning she has done with her students on community walks.
Curriculum
Reflections on Practice
Uloma Onyido writes about participating in Project Overseas.
Imagining Our Sustainable Community
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 reflects on how an anti-racist and anti-Islamophobia curriculum can create an inclusive classroom.
Back in Time is Not an Option
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.
The Stories We Teach
For the last eight years, I have been developing social justice curriculum for kindergarten-Grade 6 students at The Grove Community School.
Go for Green!
Go for Green is a bi-annual event at Millgrove School that proves a small school can accomplish big things.
Equity, Social Justice, and the Inclusive Classroom (Research for Teachers)
Commenting on his experience in trying to engage his “high-energy and at-risk” grade 6 students, a young male teacher noted:
Using Digital Technologies to Support Literacy Instruction Across the Curriculum
While the Internet is now the number one information source for both children and adults, research is showing that online reading differs significantly from print-based reading. In fact, learning how to obtain sound, relevant information from online sources requires specific kinds of practice and experience, and there is little evidence that schools are currently providing this experience.
Weaving Inspiration into the Curriculum (New Teachers Column)
One of the most rewarding aspects of teaching is the creativity and inspiration we can weave into the curriculum to bring deep and meaningful learning experiences to our students (and ourselves!).