Teacher Theodora Stathopoulos of Montreal’s FACE School found a way for the band to play on during the pandemic … and students picked up some valuable global competencies in addition to honing their musical chops on the way. Read more.

SK/Grade 1 teacher Stephanie Shore engages her students in experiential learning and builds community connections during Fun Fridays – a pandemic-inspired learning innovation at Huron-Perth Catholic DSB.

Students Mentoring Students at Algoma DSB: A unique mentoring program developed in partnership with Algoma Family Services supports ADSB students’ social-emotional health. Read more.

OCSB grounds its approach to student, teacher, staff and parent health and wellbeing during COVID-19 on one of its three strategic commitments. Read more from guest bloggers Manon Séguin and Dr. Richard Bolduc.

A conversation with Morneau Shepell's Paula Allen about what education leaders can do to support educators’ mental health during COVID-19.

Noah Aiken-Klar and Mark Beckles have helped build RBC’s $500-million commitment to invest in the future of work, especially for BIPOC and barriered youth, from the ground up. RBC Future Launch, a ten-year program that launched in 2016, marks the largest community commitment RBC has made to address a single significant social issue.

Principal Karen Hudson shares the details of Auburn Drive High School’s Africentric curriculum and the group of students who have seen their lived experience reflected and respected in their educational experience for the first time.

Reona Brass speaks about Indigenous culture courses, social justice movements, and the need for allies to ‘do the work’ to dismantle systemic inequities that Indigenous students face.

Tricia Berry’s mandate when she joined NB’s Department of Education and Early Childhood Development was to do no less than transform career education across the province to the latest international best practices. Here’s how she and her colleagues went about doing it.

As Indigenous Education Consultant for Prairie Valley School Division in Saskatchewan, Reona Brass and her colleagues help foster connections between students, schools and communities, and 14 Nakota, Dakota, Cree and Anishinaabe First Nations of the area, integrating Indigenous culture and ways of knowing into the K-12 curriculum across the school division.

During the COVID-19 school closures, Huron-Perth Catholic DSB took the time to build community, culture and trust as they managed the transition to distance learning across the rural school district and set people up for long-term success.

What does Pembina Trails School Division’s online high school, InformNet, share in common with penicillin? Hear from Ted Fransen about how an existing but under-used technology became key to the transition to distance learning during COVID-19.

Luc Lerminiaux writes about how teamwork has been transformative and how new opportunities for equity and inclusion emerged as some of the “unintended benefits” of making the switch to virtual ways of working and teaching.

Elwin LeRoux reflects on how Halifax Regional Centre for Education drew strength from collaboration, connection and compassion while needing to stay apart during COVID-19.

We spoke with Dr. Godden to learn how Abby Schools handled what is – so far – a three-part process, shutting down in March, opening up for vulnerable students and the children of essential workers in April and May, and returning to a blended model for all students for the last month of the school year in June.

We’re asking education leaders across the country to reflect on some of the most interesting, innovative ideas they’re seeing in K-8 education during COVID-19. Erin Kelly, Director of Education, shares her thoughts on connection and coherence as drivers of innovation in these great examples from Greater Essex County District School Board.