Welcoming Your Students
As the new school year approaches, many educators and schools prepare their education spaces to welcome learners. As an educator, I know how much time and dedication we put into setting up [...]
Integrating Provincial Standards and Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Finding ways to integrate diverse knowledge in a classroom isn’t always easy for educators to accomplish. Often, we rely on things we know or have seen in classrooms as learners ourselves. [...]
Decolonizing Math: Creating Culturally-Relevant Resources
Although learners can have trouble with any subject, math is the one learners complain about most. Often this is because learners don’t see the connection or relevance of math to their daily [...]
Decolonizing Literacy: Creating Culturally Relevant Lessons
Learning Bird works with schools and communities to find learning paths for learners who may not always succeed in traditional classrooms. One of our recent collaborations with Garden River First [...]
Teach Real-World Entrepreneurship and Business Skills
Entrepreneurship is an area of study that is difficult to define. What skills does an entrepreneur need? How can they develop these skills in a typical classroom setting? There is a perception [...]
Two Perspectives on Using Social Media in Education
Between Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and whatever’s next, social media plays an integral part in most people’s lives these days. As an educator, it can be a challenge to keep track of [...]
Teaching Math in the 21st Century: Changing the Focus from Calculations to Critical Thinking
Math class can be a traumatic experience, and for whatever reason, people tie math closely to intelligence. Many people think you can do math if you’re smart, and if you’re not smart, you cannot. [...]
Celebrating Pi – A Transcendental Number
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein As an educator, I like to find as many reasons to [...]
Empowering Learners for Social Change and Civic Engagement Using Digital Technology
Whenever I talk about young people, politics, civic action, and the internet, I always find some version of the common misconceptions about youth and social change. 1. Youth are not politically [...]
Genius Hour: Breaking Out of the Box
Why is Genius Hour such an effective learning model? A sixth-grade student smiled proudly as she presented her project. She picked the topic, designed the experiment, convinced her mother to [...]
