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Curiosity, care, and collaboration: Empowering school-based teams in an inclusive classroom
As I kick off my second year as an inclusive education teacher, I find myself reflecting on the many moments—some joyful, some overwhelming, and all deeply meaningful—that shaped my previous year.
Nov 56 min read


Everybody Deserves a Smile: Teaching empathy and living compassionately
École Puntledge Park Elementary has a history of celebrating the festive season with a focus on compassion and empathy. Students in the Everybody Deserves ...
Nov 54 min read


Solidarity across sectors
As unions across the province take up collective bargaining and set picket lines to demand fair working conditions and wages, solidarity across sectors is more important than ever.
Nov 55 min read


Peace River region local profile: Opportunity and innovation rooted in community
The Peace River region of BC is home to a small percentage of the province’s teachers, but geographically the region is sizable. Its schools are spread out over hundreds of kilometres in BC’s northeast, near the Alberta border.
Nov 56 min read


Beyond checkers: How a Filipino game revolutionized learning through math, science, and inclusion
A checkers-inspired board game used in our school years became one of the most memorable and effective tools for learning we encountered as students.
Nov 54 min read


From compliance to connection: Shifting how we support neurodivergent learners
Neurodivergent students often feel different, excluded, and deeply misunderstood, especially in a school system that just doesn’t seem to be designed for their moving bodies and dopamine-driven focus.
Nov 55 min read


What can teachers do to feel hopeful?
Hopefulness is not my natural orientation. It’s something that I’ve really struggled to find. For a long time, I didn’t know what to do to help myself feel more hopeful. Hopelessness always got the best of me.
Nov 55 min read


Amplifying youth voices for menstrual equity and education
On May 3, 2025, the students from Project RED’s after-school club brought Canada’s very first Youth-Led Period Symposium to Vancouver!
Nov 53 min read


Discovering Paldi: A journey of history, culture, and connections
As a high school teacher, one of my core missions is to provide students with opportunities to learn both inside and outside of the classroom. The best lessons often happen when students are immersed in the richness of history, culture, and the connections we share with the past.
Sep 165 min read


Teacher profile: Thais Pimentel Cabral
Anti-oppression work has been the focus of Thais Pimentel Cabral’s pedagogy for her entire career. Last year, she was awarded the Intercultural Trust Award at the BC Multicultural and Anti-Racism Awards, which aim to honour advocates who combat racism and create a more inclusive province.
Sep 165 min read


Sexual health education is safety education
You’ve likely seen the infamous scene of Coach Carr delivering the sexual health lesson from the film Mean Girls. The coach says, “Don’t have sex; you will get chlamydia and die.”
Sep 164 min read


Mirrors, windows, and voices: Building inclusive libraries through inquiry
Last school year, six teacher-librarians from School District 68 Nanaimo Ladysmith came together to form a Teacher Inquiry Program project focused on making our libraries more welcoming, inclusive spaces for all students.
Sep 164 min read


From barriers to belonging
Twenty-one students sit in rows at xylophones and glockenspiels, mallets in hand, waiting to strike. While I teach them to wait for the conductor, they anticipate a count in and ready themselves to strike the bar with relative accuracy.
Sep 165 min read


Beyond recall: Forging future-ready learners with concept-based teaching and AI as our ally
After three decades as a middle-school teacher in British Columbia, primarily supporting students with diverse learning needs, I’ve experienced many educational changes and reforms.
Sep 165 min read


Building belonging through movement: The heart behind the Comox Valley Inclusive Track Meet
When we first envisioned an inclusive track meet here in the Comox Valley, it was with a simple but powerful goal: to create a space where students with disabilities could feel celebrated, empowered, and—most importantly—valued.
Sep 163 min read


Sparking dialogue across districts: A sustainability conference for teachers and students
Sustainable development is not just a catchphrase or a current fad in our world; it is a way of living that helps advance policy development to create long-lasting change for future generations.
Sep 165 min read


Gender-inclusive French: A crash course
The French language is heavily gendered: we have gendered nouns, masculine and feminine adjective agreements, and vocabulary with roots in misogyny. Within this clearly defined gender binary, there is a prevalence of masculine over feminine ...
May 134 min read


Mentorship in inclusive education: Three keys to supporting early career teachers
As an early career teacher, I quickly discovered that mentorship is about much more than just finding answers. When I began teaching, I imagined that my mentor ...
May 135 min read


Pride prom: Celebrating, affirming, and empowering
On June 20, 2016, Guildford Park Secondary School in North Surrey was alive with energy as 30 queer youth and their friends worked to put the finishing touches on MasQUEERade ...
May 133 min read


Why we leave, and how we stay
In British Columbia, teaching is often framed as a calling—an act of service and care that shapes the next generation. But for many queer educators, staying in the profession is an act of resistance ...
May 135 min read
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