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Fires of Change
Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Systematic Parent Engagement
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The research is clear: Family engagement enhances student outcomes. Why, then, is it still a standard approach to centre schools and teachers as the most significant place of teaching and learning for children and youth? What might a different...
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People, Place & Land
Leading for Learning and Mentorship
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People, Place & Land: Leading for Learning and Mentorship brings together the collective expertise of educators to explore leadership, mentorship, and teaching practice across K–12 and postsecondary education. Focusing on the school’s signature...
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Reboot Required
To Recover Our Humanity
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Reboot Required offers a penetrating look at the issues that make us less happy today in spite of so-called social and economic development. Written by octogenarian Penny Gumbert, this book explores how we can reverse the current trend and become...
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Dancing Stories, Poems and Plays for Eurythmy and Movement Lessons
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Stories, Poems and Plays for Grades 1-3 and Stories and Plays for Grade 4 and Above "A story is a magic gate. Come step within. Adventures wait!" Dancing Stories, Poems and Plays is a resource of material for eurythmy and expressive movement...
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The Kid Calming Toolkit
Relational Strategies for Elementary School Leaders and the Educators they Support
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Are you an elementary school leader, teacher, or support worker who would like to learn successful ways to help children when the rubber hits the road? In his last few years as an elementary school principal, Jon Wheatley saw a growing number of...
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Evaluating Education Through Community Voice
An Action Research Study in a First Nations School
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The Community leaders of one band-operated school, this study's focus, did not consider the external evaluations mandated by the federal Department of Indian Affairs to be helpful in resolving student high dropout rates and low academic...
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Empowering Indigenous Students in the Classroom and Beyond
A Collection of Essays by Instructors at the University College of the North
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Empowering Indigenous Students in the Classroom and Beyond brings together scholarly essays from faculty at the University College of the North (UCN), where the majority of students identify as Indigenous. Written from a wide range of...
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Struggling in Class
A Report Card on Education in New Brunswick
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Putting students first should be the first priority of all public school systems. Today that is not the case in New Brunswick where the system is mired in ongoing crisis, students are struggling in class, and the public is losing faith in its...
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Restoring Trust In Education
A Call for Values, Vision, and Integrity in Our Schools
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The book the moment requires. After more than fifty years inside Canadian education — as a science teacher, school superintendent, university faculty member, and founder of an independent academy in Toronto — Alfred Abouchar has written an honest...
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May I Have Another Word With You?
Exploring words of teaching and learning
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Bet you didn’t know that in the 13th century you might have scratched your nose with your teacher? What?! It all makes sense when you learn in May I Have Another Word with You? Exploring words of teaching and learning, that “teacher” was the word...
