Articles in Education in Canada
Last week, CSBA presented three of its provincial associations’ initiatives in the area of aboriginal education at the CMEC Educators’ Forum on Aboriginal Education. Local initiatives are having a powerful impact on student engagement, community …
Lakehead District School Board is located in the Thunder Bay area of Ontario. With a student enrollment of just over 13,000, the board consists of twenty-five elementary, four secondary and one adult education centre. Lakehead District is …
This post, written by Melanie Jackson of the British Columbia School Trustees’ Association, is an excerpt from “The Way Forward is the Way Back: Saving the Haida Language.”
When Haida Gwaii Trustee Wayne Wilson was a …
Media Literacy Week takes place this year from November 7-11 across Canada.
Canada’s youth are exposed to media content on a daily basis, and are continually asked to understand the “nature, techniques and impacts of …
Last week, the government tabled Bill C-11, a re-introduction of Bill C-32 that was originally introduced in June 2010.
See the CSBA copyright page for CSBA’s 2010 submission to Canadian Parliament.
Although there are many provisions in the Copyright …
How do school boards and districts define digital citizenship? What does it mean to be a responsible digital citizen? How do boards and districts infuse the concept of digital citizenship into the school community and …
Today marks a National Day of Action to make Shannen’s Dream a reality. Hundreds of students in Ottawa will support this Day of Action by marching on Parliament, demanding the Federal Government to address the issue of educational …
The Honourable Joan Burke, Minister of Education for Newfoundland and Labrador, launched education week in the province via an interactive webcast yesterday. This was a fitting start to the 2011 theme of ”I Think. I …
The Québec English School Boards Association (QESBA), representing the nine English school boards of Québec and their 340 elementary and high schools, has launched the second phase of an ambitious campaign called “Go Publique” to …
Abbotsford School District, located in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, is home to The Aboriginal Hub, a truly unique initiative in British Columbia. The Aboriginal Hub, part of the Aboriginal Education Centre, offers a …