Facebook in the Classroom: Friend or Foe?

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Should Facebook have a seat in the classroom?

It becomes a pain for most parents with teen and tweens. Its addictive nature can distract and lure your child’s from both class time and study time—sometimes for hours on end. While you think you’re safe for the time being because you’re 8-year-old does not have an account yet, they will get one— eventually. So if you can’t fight them, why not join them? Many schools have decided to do just that. Aspengrove School in Nanaimo, B.C. teaches its students digital citizenship classes, and one school in Iowa has even invited Facebook into the curriculum.

Murals teach kids visual literacy

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Mural painting in school hallway

Murals are a way of expressing what is big and bold and out of the box! Done right, they brighten every hallway, classroom or bedroom, but “creating the mural itself is the best part of all” says Maureen Walton from Maureen Walton Murals. Maureen is a professional artist that works with students to co-create colourful [...]

Turning Around Our Public Schools

Paul W. Bennett
Changes needed in public and private school education symbolized by a multi-coloured pen open on a text book

Public education reform, in Canada as in the U.S., is focused on improving student learning through systematic testing, data analysis, and system-wide initiatives. How do we zero in on individual school improvement and fundamentals such as curriculum quality and teaching? Time is running out to close the gaps between the educated and undereducated in our [...]

Star Academy Science Fair

Travis Allison
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I was invited last week to attend the annual science fair at Mississauga’s Star Academy (see their listing on Ourkids.net).    Star Academy is a private school that focuses on teaching children to “love to learn”. A visitor to the school could easily understand this focus if they were visiting the science fair last Thursday!  It [...]

Waldorf Art Tournament will fund trip

Shane Alexander

Every year at the Toronto Waldorf School, the grade 8 class come up with some creative idea to raise money in order to take a last journey as a whole unit before they all enter the high school stages of their life.  This year, the grade 8 class have come out with an awesome and [...]

Should Public Laws Govern Private Schools?

Shaundra Selvaggi
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Lisa Reimer, a teacher at Little Flower Academy in Vancouver, says she was asked to work from home when school administrators learned of her sexual orientation.   Reimer told the Catholic girls school she was a lesbian when requesting parental leave, which she was denied.  Her partner had given birth to a baby boy. In [...]

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