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Social Justice

Treaties Recognition Week

Christina Saunders

Christina Saunders encourages all members to commemorate Treaties Recognition Week. Presenting an overview of treaties and treaty issues, Saunders offers resources to help teach treaty recognition and land acknowledgement to our students.

The Stories We Teach

Velvet Lacasse

For the last eight years, I have been developing social justice curriculum for kindergarten-Grade 6 students at The Grove Community School.

Building Communities

ETFO Voice

Making Connections between Building Better Schools and Creating a More Just Ontario.

Women Change Makers

ETFO Voice

A video animation and companion poster about women taking action for social justice.

The ABC's of Viola Desmond

Grade 4 students at William King Elementary School and teachers Pam Caines and Beatrice MacDonald. Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute, 2016. 54 pages, $23.95

Books to Bars

Francesca Alfano

Francesca Alfano talks about volunteering with Books to Bars, using her skills and passion as a teacher-librarian to bring books and reading programs to incarcerated women.

Girls' Government

Tanya Ferro

Tanya Ferro reflects on her students’ participation in Girls’ Government, a program that encourage grade 8 girls to get involved in government and public policy.

Letter from the Editor

Izida Zorde

In anticipation of Earth Month and in honour of the activists who have protected safe drinking water in South Dakota, protested major pipeline projects in Canada, saved US climate data from destruction under President Donald Trump and created viable earth-friendly models for development, this issue of Voice focuses on climate justice.