A physical distancing sign is seen at Hastings Elementary school in Vancouver, Sept. 2, 2020.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Addressing children’s and youth’s needs requires the expertise and support of educational assistants, school psychologists and all workers who collaborate to build caring school communities.
Over the last hundred years, there have been at least three major waves of ‘progressive’ education in Ontario. Here, Premier Doug Ford with Finance Minister Vic Fedeli after presenting the 2019 budget at the legislature on April 11, 2019.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
The Progressive Conservative government’s call to modernize education invokes long-standing rhetoric about progressive education in paradoxical ways.
We talk about exhaustion and burnout, but not heartbreak.
A dream teaching job with seemingly great perks may not be worth it when turbulence creates crushing heartache for educators.
Down the steps of Finland’s famous Bengtskaer lighthouse.
EPA
This problem masks a greater threat to the welfare state than it first appears.