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Education in the Age of Climate Change
For the past 18 years Lizanne Foster has taught the humanities in secondary schools in Surrey, B.C. Education in the Age of Climate Change is a blog about public education in B.C. Follow her on Twitter [url=https://twitter.com/MovingParadigms]@movingparadigms [/url] or visit her blog www.teachteens.org.
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change June 1 Lizanne Foster | In too many B.C. schools, it will not be easy to follow all the public health guidelines for a safe return to the classroom. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change September 24 Lizanne Foster | The NDP's plan does not have public school students in mind. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change August 14 Lizanne Foster | What role do teachers have in the necessary transition away from our fossil-fuel dependent economy? |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change June 9 Lizanne Foster | Even in our worst nightmares we never thought we'd have to debate the morally repugnant issue of "cash for kids" with your government. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change August 20 Lizanne Foster | Students should learn how to process that anger so that their relationships can withstand the challenges that dealing with climate change is going to include. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change August 18 Lizanne Foster | Well-being for our children and for our planet should be the ultimate goal of learning. We can't afford for it not to be. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change August 17 Lizanne Foster | Have you heard of First Peoples Principles of Learning, a list of approaches to learning common amongst Indigenous peoples for the multiple millennia before colonization and the residential schools? |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change August 11 Lizanne Foster | The class of 2030 will begin school in a few short weeks. How can schooling foster the creativity needed to solve the world's biggest problems, including climate change and the refugee crisis? |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change May 7 Lizanne Foster | What happens to our society when what we teach about ethics and citizenship inside our schools is not reflected in the reality outside our classrooms? |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change April 8 Lizanne Foster | If you can’t afford the $10,000 a plate dinners, the B.C. Liberals have little to offer you besides more of what we’ve been subjected to since 2001. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change February 12 Lizanne Foster | Finance Minister De Jong's claims to a balanced budget actually reveal years of fiscal mismanagement and neglect. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change January 22 Lizanne Foster | It felt good to march among fellow British Columbians against Trump, but change is desperately needed here as well. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change November 12 Lizanne Foster | Christy Clark said she was excited about the Supreme Court decision, but she was Minister of Education when the problems started. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change October 30 Lizanne Foster | It’s ironic that the B.C. government rolls out a new curriculum situating emotional well-being at the centre of learning, while it simultaneously undermines teachers and underfunds public education. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change September 17 Lizanne Foster | Being a teacher already requires daily feats of flexibility. What we need are resources. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change August 26 Lizanne Foster | Fifteen years of cuts to education funding means that there are many public schools where parents are wondering about whether to include the following on their shopping list for school supplies. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change July 18 Lizanne Foster | Essentially, my students want to know why it's so hard for people to get along with other people. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change July 1 Lizanne Foster | Why is public education, the very cornerstone of a democracy where Canadian values are nurtured, under such sustained attack here in B.C.? |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change June 5 Lizanne Foster | In British Columbia today, Christy Clark's Liberal government wants us to believe that 2 + 2 = 5. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change May 29 Lizanne Foster | In light of the inadequate response by the B.C. government to the safety needs in B.C. schools, parents are advised to prepare for increased spending on back-to-school supplies in Fall 2016. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change May 3 Lizanne Foster | There are a few ways you can prime parents and the public into accepting privatization in schools. (This is satire folks.) |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change April 25 Lizanne Foster | You will need the help of politicians. This is easy to obtain since they are always looking for donations for their election campaigns. Spending a few million will reap rewards 10 times over. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change February 24 Lizanne Foster | There are multitudes of you with many brilliant ideas but too often those ideas are being buried beneath your boredom and frustration in schools. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change January 9 Lizanne Foster | My friends have a lot on their minds lately. Getting rid of a government that cares more about what corporations want than what BC citizens need is at the top of that list. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change December 23 Lizanne Foster | During this Christmas season, when the birth of a child is celebrated with largesse, I think about the children the B.C. government has conveniently forgotten. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change November 21 Lizanne Foster | The tradition of a woman covering her head as an indication of piety and modesty has a long history. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change November 14 Lizanne Foster | In the recent federal election, the Harper Conservatives used a niqab to fan the flames of hatred, but Canadians overwhelming rejected that attempt to divide citizens from each other. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change September 8 Lizanne Foster | The new B.C. curriculum will fit seamlessly into private schools in classrooms with 15 students and unlimited resources. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change September 4 Lizanne Foster | If I didn't know otherwise, I’d think that students in B.C. were all under the supervision of Thomas Gradgrind. |
Blog - Education in the Age of Climate Change September 3 Lizanne Foster | I wish I could get excited about the new curriculum from the B.C. Ministry of Education, but I can't help but think of the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. |