You made it. The end of a year unlike any other in teaching - and parenting. I hope you’ve heard the resounding message from parents around the country: teaching is hard/ teachers are valuable/teachers should be paid so much more. Parents got an inside glimpse at what you do every day and they see how hard you work.
We at Study Canada K-12 have been sharing daily resources on Twitter and Facebook - please follow us - and are hoping to bring you some excellent original on-line content in the Fall. We also will be sending out a survey, along with other Title VI centers, about what you will need next year and how we can help you in this changing educational world.
Many educators have also been challenged in recent weeks to use their summer to dig into anti-racist and “unsettling” their curriculum and themselves. In that spirit, this summer we offer a selection of resources on Black Canadians and Black Canadian History. As Teaching Tolerance recently said:
“Teachers can teach hard history—and the present—and teach the ways that marginalized groups have always worked to honor their dignity and humanity. Teaching and exposing the realities of what is happening now may be very difficult for students, so balancing teaching the “hard stuff” with action or activism helps. Teachers can teach lessons that expose oppression and also teach lessons that are rooted in action, activism, care, joy and healing".
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