by Beatrix Shackleton | May 30, 2025 | Salon, SSENC News
NB Conference “On Friday, May 2, 2025, over 6500 Anglophone teachers gathered for New Brunswick’s NBTA Council Day, an annual professional development event hosted by 3 NBTA Councils. For a second year, the New Brunswick Social Studies Educators’ Network...
by Beatrix Shackleton | May 30, 2025 | Salon, Partners
Valour Canada D-Day: 1 Cdn Para Bn’s Anderson On June 5, 1944, shortly before midnight, nineteen-year-old Raymond Anderson landed in France. A member of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion (1 Cdn Para), Anderson had been sent in early to establish the Drop Zone in...
by Beatrix Shackleton | Feb 28, 2025 | Salon, SSENC News
President’s Message: Rachel Collishaw, president, SSENC What is the purpose of social studies education? Every teacher needs to reflect upon this question in order to align our practices with our core philosophy and our curriculum demands. For me, the answer to this...
by Beatrix Shackleton | Feb 28, 2025 | Salon, Articles
My Assessment Struggle Kevin Lopuck is a Social Sciences Teacher and Department Head at Lord Selkirk Regional Comprehensive School in Manitoba. He is also Past-President of the Manitoba Social Sciences Teachers’ Association and a PhD Candidate at the University...
by Beatrix Shackleton | Feb 28, 2025 | Salon, Articles
The Quest to Ungrade Samir Hathout We have a long history in this place. Whether you call it Turtle Island or North America, we have a long, flourishing, diverse history. We also have a colonial history–a history filled with select sanitized stories that...
by Beatrix Shackleton | Feb 28, 2025 | Articles, Salon
High-school students’ civic engagement: we don’t just want to hear it, we want to see it. Marie-Laurence Tremblay, PhD student, Université de Sherbrooke As a high-school history teacher, I have observed a loss of interest in citizenship among students....
