It might have been 1984. The late Harro Van Brummelen made a call for high school teachers interested in writing curriculum units for novel study. Lloyd den Boer was there, plus Dennis DeGroot and Ray Sutton. It was a new experience for all of us. We brought our suggestions: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan…
The rain is on and off this week, and my house is disordered with books. My husband has been bringing boxes of them home from his office at the university because the roof there needs repairs and afterwards, all the staff offices are to be repainted and reassigned. A bit of a shuffle all round….
If you were to step into a Grade 7 language arts class at Ottawa Christian School a year ago, you might hear students asking questions not found in textbooks: What was your childhood like? What challenges shaped your life? What wisdom would you pass on to us? These questions are at the heart of My…
As I have shifted from working with schools to working with health care providers and researchers, I have observed that a school’s core value of cultivating learning communities of belonging in schools is similar to the value of creating a sense of community in healthcare, particularly as it relates to disability. In education and healthcare,…
“In the beginning, leaving home was exciting,” said Sean, a 23-year-old McMaster University student from Incheon, South Korea. Sean said he “feels safe living in Canada” and believes it is a “more politically and socially stable environment than his alternative options.” Many of his friends study in the U.S., but he chose Canada instead. He…
International students in Canada are often framed statistically, economically and politically – as a population surge, a strain on resources and, increasingly, a problem to be managed and reduced. And these narratives about international students are often told without their voices being heard. In past decades, Canada has been welcoming to international students. I, myself,…
“About three months before OpenAI launched publicly, I was given a sneak peek, and I knew immediately that this is going to drastically change education, probably forever,” says Darren Spyksma, the Associate Executive Director for the Society of Christian Schools in British Columbia (SCSBC). Just over a year ago, Spyksma was tasked by the SCSBC…
In July, the Institute for Christian Studies (ICS) in Toronto will have a new president, Dr. Beth Green. Green is currently serving as Chief Academic Officer and Provost at Tyndale University in Toronto. “If you ask me who I am, I’m a teacher,” says Green, who is looking forward to being back in the classroom….
The early Greeks saw the essence of education as Paideia: the process of forming a whole person into an ideal citizen. They emphasized the formation of virtues like prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance in preparation for active citizenship. Later, in the Medieval era, the Christian tradition saw education as formation for the glory of God,…
Prayer rooms in universities made headlines recently when Quebec introduced a bill to ban their existence. Banning prayer rooms in public universities and banning communal prayers in public spaces are two measures in Quebec’s Bill 9 on Laïcité (Secularism), introduced in November. The bill also extends an earlier ban on religious symbols into daycare settings,…
When I first walked into my new school, I remember feeling like everyone else already spoke a language I didn’t know. It was the language of faith. Each morning began with prayer, each classroom wall carried a verse from the Bible, and every conversation seemed to circle back to church youth groups or worship songs….
Last month, I discussed a large, well-designed study of early school math ability in girls and boys. At the start of Grade One, the study found no difference between boys’ and girls’ math abilities. Some girls and boys perform well, while others struggle, but girls generally match boys’ performance on standardized math tests. Yet four…
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