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.
Most youth in a Waterloo region study were found to have never been taught by a Black teacher.
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Ensuring that every Black youth sees Back teachers at school is one critical piece of addressing systemic racism in schools.
English language teachers should encourage students to draw on their own mother tongues. Here, children participate in learning to help Syrian refugee youths prepare for school at the H.appi Camp in Toronto, July 2016.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
How we teach languages has not evolved much from the traditional grammar-based mode of instruction, and this approach alone marginalizes students’ existing knowledge and communication abilities.