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Key Action Items for Initiating Educational Change
Posted March 13th, 2008 by carrieannThis document, developed in spring of 2007, was compiled from workshop sessions with education ministries and districts across Canada. After presentations with John Abbott and a review of relevant research, educators and administrators compiled lists of action items that needed to occur in order to re-align education with what we know about how kids learn.
Failing Our Kids: How We Are Ruining Our Public Schools
Education expert Charles Ungerleider makes our situation plain: Canadians have never placed a higher value on education, but if we do not do something now about the neglect and decline of our public schools, we may lose the benefits that they provide and miss the opportunity to fix them.
A Policy Paper: The Strategic and Resource Implications of a New Model of Learning
Posted January 17th, 2008 by carrieannThis Policy Proposal, from the 21st Century Learning Initiative in the UK, is written to assist those in positions of influence to initiate powerful changes to current educational arrangements. The circumstantial evidence for such a transformation of learning is drawn from the best in research and practice from around the world. The paper shows that better informed, and more effective, models of learning could be organised through a redistribution of expenditures and responsibilities, at a total cost no greater than current levels of expenditure.
The 2008 Campbell Collaboration (C2) Colloquium
Posted January 16th, 2008 by carrieannThe theme of the 2008 Colloquium is Speaking Truth to Power: Evidence for Decisions in Education, Social Welfare, and Criminal Justice. The Campbell Collaboration (C2) is an independent, international, non-profit organization that strives to provide decision-makers with evidence-based information to empower them to make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioural and educational arenas.
Equality in the Classroom: The Educational Placement of Children with Disabilities
Posted January 14th, 2008 by carrieannCanadian public schools – as inclusive institutions – educate students who, in previous generations, would have been educated in segregated settings or denied an education. The challenge facing public schools is to determine how best to address the needs of students whose circumstances pose particular learning challenges.
(Source: Canadian Council on Learning)
Composite Learning Index: Helping communities improve their quality of life
Posted January 14th, 2008 by carrieannThe Composite Learning Index is a practical measurement tool that can help Canadians identify their community’s strengths and weaknesses when it comes to fostering the best possible environment for lifelong learning. The CLI results offer community leaders and decision-makers a unique and valuable opportunity to help shape how their community can achieve the economic and social benefits that come from lifelong learning.
(Source: Canadian Council on Learning,published in both English and French)
Educational Reform for Today and Tomorrow
Posted January 10th, 2008 by carrieann“So, how do you connect the short term and the long term? How do you deal with today and tomorrow?” Andy Hargreaves discusses the role of both short-term and long-term strategies in instigating meaningful educational change.
(Source: Canadian Education Association)
Report: Public Education in Canada -- Facts, Trends and Attitudes
Posted January 10th, 2008 by carrieannWith this report, the Canadian Education Association provides a context for rethinking schools to drive dialogue and critical thinking about the challenges we face in educating all students to take their place in a world of dynamic social, technological and economic change.
