The BC Adolescent Health Survey was first mentioned to me by a colleague at the BCTF. I had no idea what it was but after doing a deeper dive on Google, I was incredibly invested.

Objective: Learning how unions and collective bargaining help to raise the living standards of all workers and help reduce inequality, discrimination, and exploitation.

As teachers, you witness daily the impact of economic hardship on students. You see the child who comes to class hungry because there was no breakfast, or the teenager anxious about their family’s risk of eviction.

As educators know, a hungry child is not set up for learning. But hunger is not just a classroom issue—it’s a structural one.

Nourish Cowichan has been providing students with accessible food at school for eight years. The founder, Fatima Da Silva, has led the expansion of the program to remove barriers for more students to access food at school without stigma.

As part of the public education system in beautiful British Columbia, we are proud of the work our colleagues do across the province. Most of us don’t choose the profession for the money, nor the ease, as any Kindergarten teacher can tell you, but for the love of learning and children.

Brent Mansfield has been passionate about food his whole career. He wove it into his teaching practice as a classroom teacher, worked in ...

Over the summer we were grateful to have an opportunity to interview Rowan Burdge from the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition...