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A Critical Conversation About Literacy, Part II: Critical Literacy Defined
(c) Ricardo Romanoff by Melanie Stonebanks My husband and I have spent years discussing and debating our perspectives and understanding of every aspect of the field of education. We met when we were...
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A Critical Conversation About Literacy Part III: A Place to Start in Today’s...
by Melanie Stonebanks You don’t have to have all the answers. You only need to know the questions to ask. "It's a Book" by Lane Smith - You Tube trailer As has been discussed in the previous two...
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Memories From the Field: Looking back on a teacher’s experience
(c) Todd Berman by Melanie Stonebanks Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient continuing, hopeful inquiry (we) pursue in the world, with the world,...
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SOS LEARN: The Tutors’ Perspective
(c) Jonathan Crowe SOS LEARN is a free online tutoring and homework help service that has operated through LEARN for the last five years. The strength of SOS LEARN comes from its tutors, Quebec...
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Memories From the Field: Part III – Rainbow of Dreams
by Melanie Stonebanks From the author's own family archiveby Melanie Stonebanks By looking back and by remembering the past, I have attempted to bind my past experiences as a professional educator in...
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Game-changers: Teachers who changed my life
(c) Todd Berman Mrs. Stevens was strict. Mrs. Stevens scowled. Mrs. Stevens got after her students. Mrs. Stevens had fiery red hair. Mrs. Stevens was not some people’s favourite grade 2 teacher...
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Teacher Profiles: An Interview with Kerry Ballard
Kerry Ballard This week I invite you to join a conversation that I had with a dynamic teacher as we discuss a Literature Circle project that she undertook with her Cycle 1 students. Teacher’s name:...
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Happy Valentine’s Day from a Life Long Learner
(c) Karen Horton I have spent the past twenty years of my life entrenched in the Elementary school system here in Quebec. My roles and responsibilities may have shifted and evolved over the course of...
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The Power of Poetry
(c) haley8 under CC License Crowded Tub There are too many kids in this tub. There are too many elbows to scrub. I just washed a behind that I’m sure wasn’t mine. There are too many kids in this tub. -...
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A Reminder That Life is Good: the QEP, Professional Autonomy and Paulo Freire
It was the spring of 1999. Heading out the door of the inner city elementary school where both my husband and I were working, I bombarded him (as I always did) with a series of mini episodes of what...
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Authentic experience: Students writing for real audiences
CC BY-NC 2.0 I was a first year teacher writing on the chalkboard, simultaneously trying to keep an eye on a room of rowdy secondary 2 students. Suddenly, I heard the words that always make me...
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The Story of Manga – Do something like this, but better
I’m a learn-by-doing kind of guy. As a teacher, when it came time to planning my lessons I was not someone who could just wing it. I always had to complete my own version of the work in which I was...
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Blue Metropolis: Bringing Professionals into the Classroom
Photo courtesy of Blue Metropolis On a warm fall day, I sat down with Lisanne Gamelin, the new Educational and Social program coordinator for Blue Metropolis. I was struck by her enthusiasm for...
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Rapping Across the Curriculum
The following is a guest post by Dan Parker. Dan Parker holds an M.A. in Education and a B. Ed. in High School History and French Second Language. He taught in Quebec for three years and then decided...
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Singing the Grade School Blues
Rob Lutes singing the Blues. When I was about twelve years old I was flipping through my parent’s record collection and came across B.B. King – Live In Cook County Jail, an album cover faded and...
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Dear Prime Minister: Writing letters for World Environment Day
CC BY-NC Sylwia Bielec Back in 2002, when I was teaching Secondary Three English Language Arts, then-United States President George W. Bush was trying to pull together a coalition of allies to attack...
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Animals in School? Fostering empathy through civic engagement
A special guest post by Emelie Luciani from Engage Animal Welfare Education – engageanimal.org The Grade 6 students at Nesbitt School were lining up for their turn to greet Athena and Sofia. Having...
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