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Mindful Kids, Peaceful Schools
Posted March 3rd, 2010 by carrieannWith eyes closed and deep breaths, students are learning a new method to reduce anxiety, conflict, and attention disorders. A growing number of schools are using “mindfulness trainings” in an effort to combat increasing levels of anxiety, social conflict, and attention disorder among children.
The Community Action Project
Posted November 26th, 2009 by mlayYouth Engagement, Skill Building and Experiential Learning
The Community Action Project
Posted November 26th, 2009 by mlayYouth Engagement, Skill Building and Experiential Learning
What Did You Do in School Today?: Transforming Canadian Classrooms Through Social, Academic and Intellectual Engagement
Posted November 3rd, 2009 by carrieannThrough What did you do in school today?: Transforming Classrooms through Social, Academic and Intellectual Engagement , the Canadian Education Association, in partnership with the Canadian Council on Learning and school districts across Canada, are bringing life to the idea of student engagement in the classroom, and exploring its powerful relationship with adolescent learning, student achievement, and effective teaching.
A first look at the initiative’s results are presented in the initiative’s first national report – _What did you do in school today?: Transforming Classrooms thro
Blogs from The 21st Century Learning Initiative
Posted September 30th, 2009 by admin
It’s Really Very Simple
The solution to England’s education problem
The first of the Party Conferences (the Liberal Democrats) is now over, and soon it will be the turn of Labour and then the Conservatives. The media is, and will be, full of comment, and counter argument. Confusion would dominate over-clarity as people try to understand what the different policies actually mean.
National Banner Contest
Posted August 31st, 2009 by adminCalling all teachers of Grades 5 to 8!
YOUR STUDENTS’ ART COULD BE FLYING HIGH IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL!
Community Forests International Education Program
Posted February 9th, 2009 by carrieannCommunity Forest International’s education program unites schools from New Brunswick, Canada with schools in Pemba, Tanzania creating a cross-cultural, environmental learning experience. Students participating in this innovative learning partnership will address climate change by measuring their school’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions and off-setting their environmental impact by planting trees.
Promoting transformative innovation in schools
Posted February 9th, 2009 by carrieannThis handbook aims to offer evidence, insights, ideas and recommendations that can be built upon to support and nurture a culture of transformative innovation within education.
Increasingly it is recognised that there is a need to innovate to enable greater creativity, flexibility, learner input and so forth, and to deliver a more personalised educational system and foster new skills amongst learners.
Water Balloons Make Math Fun: A Constructivist Algebra Lesson
Posted February 9th, 2009 by carrieannIn the math class of veteran teacher Steve Norton, students cut pizza into precise triangles, calculate the volume of ice cream cones (filling them with real ice cream), and throw water balloons at their teacher. Norton wants to show his grade 8 students that algebra can be fun and engage them in ‘learning through doing’. It’s a constructionist approach that engages students in the learning experience, in part, by allowing them to actually construct or do something ‘real’.
Time to Reset the School Clock
Posted January 21st, 2009 by carrieann“Every kid is different. Why force each mind to fit the same timetable?” asks this article written by a British Columbia teacher. If individuals learn in a variety of styles and on different schedules, who benefits from the formal rigidity of current school timetable? And if we know that learning is not confined to the classroom, couldn’t we ‘do’ school differently?
