resource library: Great websites

Classroom Connections is a non-profit organization dedicated to initiating positive societal change by producing progressive educational resources for Canada’s youth. In the past ten years, we have produced over 20 innovative, award winning and bilingual educational programs for schools, parents and community groups across Canada.

TakingITGlobal.org is an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities. It’s the world’s most popular online community for young people interested in making a difference, with hundreds of thousands of unique visitors each month.

TIG’s highly interactive website provides a platform for expression, connection to opportunities, and support for action. Join now and connect with thousands of other young people around the world!

Galileo Educational Network creates, promotes and disseminates innovative teaching and learning practices through research, professional learning and fostering external collaborations. Galileo works with students, teachers and policy makers across Canada both onsite and online.

Galileo is about teaching for deep understanding. Galileo supports teachers to design inquiry-based projects in which students use the digital technologies of their time in creative and thoughtful ways.

Founded in 1891, the Canadian Education Association is a bilingual, federally incorporated non-profit organization. The CEA initiates and sustains dialogue throughout the country influencing public policy issues in education for the ongoing development of a robust, democratic society and a prosperous and sustainable economy.

Roots of Empathy (ROE) is an award winning, evidence-based classroom program that has shown dramatic effect in reducing levels of aggression and violence among school children while raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy. The program reaches children from Kindergarten to Grade 8 across Canada, in English and French, in rural, urban, remote and Aboriginal communities both on and off reserve and internationally in Australia,New Zealand, and the United States.

Invest in Kids aims to strengthen the knowledge, skills and confidence of all Canadians who touch the lives of children from birth to age five. The site offers sections for parents and professionals, including up-to-date information from current experts and research.

The Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) is an independent, non-profit corporation that promotes and supports research to improve all aspects of learning—across the country and across all walks of life. And since asking questions is the basis of learning—we ask a lot of them. Like what works and what doesn’t work in improving adult literacy? What are the keys to early childhood learning? How can we use education to improve the health of Canadians?

The Manitoba School Improvement Program (MSIP) promotes educational equity and social justice by collaborating with public secondary schools and school divisions to build their capacity to improve student learning and engagement. MSIP is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization which acts as an intermediary school improvement agency to provide financial, consultative and technical support to Manitoba public secondary schools engaged in voluntary school improvement and change processes.

The 21st Century Learning Initiative‘s essential purpose is to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning that draw upon a range of insights into the human brain, the functioning of human societies, and learning as a community-wide activity. We believe this will release human potential in ways that nurture and form local democratic communities worldwide, and will help reclaim and sustain a world supportive of human endeavor.

The Fraser Mustard Chair in Childhood Development has been established to plays a leading role in the development of interdisciplinary programs to further research and practice in child development.
Featuring sections for parents, educators and researchers, this website is an excellent resource for information about early childhood learning and development. The initiative is partnered with various universities and community organizations in Canada and worldwide.