Last June I bid goodbye to a 34-year career in education, during which my mission was “helping others learn and grow.”

On the edge of entering my 17th year as a teacher, I take stock of what I have taught over the years, a routine practice to figure out...

It’s quarter to eight on a blustery November morning near Maple Ridge. The familiar smell of coffee...

Literacy instruction has stepped into the spotlight for the 2024–25 school year, with added attention from government, universities...

About a decade ago, I found myself on an unexpected journey. As a new parent to a young child, I was surprised and confused...

The greenhouse at Davis Bay Elementary School has thrived for five years, serving as a collaborative endeavour uniting educators...

I grew up in and around small-town BC, playing in the woods, exploring, building forts, and getting into trouble...

A neurological condition that one is born with, TS affects 1 in every 100 children in Canada...

I have ADHD. I am a teacher. I am a man. A husband. A father. A runner. I am many things, but I don’t let any one of my identities...

Neurodiversity is a paradigm that asserts that human brains are naturally different and that there is no “normal” or “ideal” brain...

The focus on outcomes, rather than assignments, means that teachers now have more flexibility when it comes to assessment...

Last fall, an unexpected incident changed my school year dramatically. Up until that point, I was being creative in my classroom...

We know that things are changing in the lives of the students we teach. There are so many things that affect the mental health...

For those of us living in BC’s urban centres, it’s easy to forget just how remote parts of our province can be...

Two weeks into teaching four blocks of English 11 at my new school, Eric Hamber Secondary, my class was invited to the school library...

This fall at Fairview Elementary School, we decided to set a positive tone for the new school year by launching a school-wide celebration...

For the last 20 years, educators throughout the country have been engaging their schools in a program that brings democracy into the...

When I was seven, I wrote that I wanted to be a teacher on the back of a story we were writing for our creative writing unit...

Outside of the library learning commons, the concept of reading for pleasure is frequently disregarded in education, relegated...

For much of my life, I couldn’t understand how people could just calculate math problems in their heads.