In the fall of 2017, Carmel Bennett, youth and family counsellor at Cedar Hill Middle School in Victoria, BC, noticed that many of her...

I am always keen to share my lived experience as the father of a 10-year-old daughter who is transgender...

Our lives are now entwined with digital media and social platforms—they mediate every aspect of our daily routines.

From heat warnings, to floods, fires, and landslides, BC has experienced several climate emergencies in the last few years.

I seek out opportunities to learn as I strive to become educated enough to be an ally.

The May/June 2023 edition of Teacher magazine is a first for the Federation: it is the first written entirely by...

I grew up in a suburb of Toronto in the 1980s and 1990s as the daughter of Caribbean immigrants, and the only Black student in my class...

Over the past several months, members involved in the BIPOC 2050 Project have hosted gatherings...

Dr. Nicola Campbell eloquently shared, “It is a sacred responsibility to witness, recount, reflect and knowledge embodied within...

Standing out as the only person of colour in a room is not a new experience for me...

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As educators, it is our hope that all students and staff feel comfortable and safe at school...

Over spring break, Natasha and I met to catch up—and discuss facets of our teacher identity...

Q&A with Rick Kumar and Marilyn Ricketts-Lindsay, recently elected to the BCTF Executive Committee

A free-verse monologue on identity, representation, and self

An introduction to the Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression Office

Until recently, I didn’t quite understand why creating a class-room community centred around equity mattered to me...

In my first class, on my first day in the Native Indian Teacher Education Program in 1995, the professor asked me, “Why do you...

We gathered some perspectives from former students who were a part of Rockridge Secondary’s Youth Alliance for Intersectional Justice...

Grouping holidays by themes can be a great way to teach about different cultural traditions...