My Plea to Civics Teachers
As the annual Council of the Federation meeting wrapped up in early July, the Premiers of all 13 Provinces and Territories made quite the splash online. It was not because of...
Arts education engages student voice and makes the unseen visible
How Equity and Social Justice are interwoven with Making at The International Society for Education through Art World Congress I drove to Vancouver this summer to participate in the International...
Hate speech/acts and mediation: A student-led creative anti-hate group and developing policies to follow
How should teachers proceed when they encounter racism, transphobia, homophobia, and/or xenophobia on school grounds? How should they respond to students who casually use hateful speech in conversation? What should...
Why I Turned My Back to Trudeau
During the first weekend of April, two weeks before my final exams of my first year of University I attended a program called Daughters of the Vote, a program in which...
Shaping My Teaching for Inclusive Education for Students with Disabilities
What does it mean when I say inclusive education? This is a fully loaded term, one that policy makers, teachers, administrators, parents and educators still have not fully figured out...
Free Speech Does Not Mean Speech Without Consequences
A few months ago, as I was driving and listening to the radio, CBC Radio reported a story of University of New Brunswick professor, Ricardo Duchesne, being accused of hate...