While literary texts can nurture deep understandings about racism and power, it’s not enough to provide students with racially and culturally diverse texts.
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When teachers are self-aware of how their identities impact their values, beliefs and experiences, they are better prepared to help students build bridges between their lives and literature.
Some teachers are resisting efforts to give students grades they believe they haven’t earned.
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Not all teachers comply when asked to adjust student grades. An education scholar takes a look at what happens when they don’t.
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Key education policy decisions in the early 2000s have not produced the desired results. But broad bipartisan agreement is now needed to give children and teachers the greatest chance of success.
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A new study reveals the extent of the COVID pandemic’s effect on headteachers, including high workloads, stress and exhaustion.
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It is proving very difficult to use research to improve schools.
A child walking to school in the rural village of Qunu in South Africa.
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Rural school leaders must develop resilience in their pursuit for learners’ success.
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We don’t ban queer teachers in public schools anymore, but it’s still allowed in some religious private schools – which the new Law Reform Commission report wants to address. What can history teach us?
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Students are provided the opportunity to use America’s national parks as case studies for environmental issues and tough conversations in this course.
Students head back to class in Montréal, Jan. 9, 2024.
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The success of students, the education system and the future of our communities depend on the learning that children receive in schools today.
A sense of calling can provide workers a feeling of higher purpose in their jobs.
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Many workers who see their work as a spiritual calling wind up tolerating unfair treatment and poor work conditions.
A study saw racialized students in Ontario French immersion programs write monologues and stories about their experiences, and also invited immersion stakeholders like teachers and parents to give feedback on
race and racism in Ontario immersion programs.
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Listening to voices of racialized students in French immersion matters for creating more inclusive schooling.
Teachers report worse well-being than the general population.
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Mental health for teachers carries critical benefits for students.
People march in front of the Midtown Mall during a province-wide, one-day strike organized by the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation in Saskatoon, Sask., Jan. 16, 2024.
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Chronically underfunded classrooms with fewer supports to meet student needs is a core issue for Saskatchewan teachers.
Some researchers predict social robots will become common in K-12 classrooms.
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Social robots can be useful tools to help students learn about programming, but here’s why they won’t be replacing classroom teachers anytime soon.
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Year 9 teachers say students often drift off to ‘never-never land’. How can we do this tough but crucial year differently?
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While teachers may appear to get more holidays than most other professions, the reality is they are not actually on holiday for all of this time.
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Productive work in all other sectors of the economy relies on teachers.
Will AI play a bigger professional development role for schoolteachers?
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New research suggests artificial intelligence can make professional development programs more accessible and effective.
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A Senate inquiry has found Australian students need specific instruction in how to behave.
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Take a few minutes out of your day and write something meaningful to thank your child’s teacher.