Societal inequalities have always been a reality impacting the education of students. We have students that come to school hungry, students that come to school unwell, and those that sometimes simply don’t come at all. This a reality that no administrator worth their salt could ignore. Schools implement breakfast or
There is an often-unspoken expectation to be the over-worked and over-burdened educator. It comes out in social media posts and memes highlighting the long hours, the lack of sleep, the uneaten lunches or other relatable vignettes. For some it’s a point of pride to be celebrated, almost an expectation or
In this very atypical year, teacher professional development may seem to be a low priority. However, it is possible to sponsor professional learning that can be completely virtual and may in fact meet the needs of teachers who have been focused on and spent inordinate amounts of time on structuring
School personnel and administrators experienced unusually large amounts of stress in 2020, due to the many unfamiliar challenges created by the Covid-19 pandemic, including problems caused by the emergency conversion to online learning. These pressures were added to an already stressful environment of managing innovation and change in a landscape
Introduction Previously adopted around the world in the aftermath of hurricanes, earthquakes and massive forest fires, emergency remote teaching (ERT) online made a widespread appearance in Canadian elementary schools during three months of national school closures in the spring of 2020. The cause of the shutdown was the COVID-19 global
ABSTRACT: Educators in various roles and settings from kindergarten to post-secondary in Alberta and Ontario shared thoughts to identify effective leadership strategies that address the challenges of working in a school environment during the pandemic. This project transpired as we investigated the Leadership Quality Standard (Alberta Education, 2018) and those
