landED: landscape + education

landED: landscape + education

landED: landscape + education By the landED team: Jane Hilder, Krista Renwick + Darcy Granove landED website As Canadians, our best childhood memories take place in the great outdoors. We remember skating on the river until we couldn’t feel our toes or exploring our...
Decolonization Skateboards

Decolonization Skateboards

Decolonization Skateboards Indigenous history, skateboards and art were themes that drove an exhibit, entitled Exploring Colonialism, Creativity and Reconciliation with Skateboards, curated by the students of Sal’s Skate Shop, a classroom at Salisbury High School, in...
Response to Globe and Mail article

Response to Globe and Mail article

Article link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canadians-get-a-failing-grade-in-civics/ As a provincial organization, OHASSTA represents the voices of thousands of teachers across Ontario teaching History, Civics and Politics, Law, Economics,...
Festival du Voyageur

Festival du Voyageur

Festival du Voyageur by Kevin Lopuck, Lord Selkirk Regional Comprehensive Secondary School, Selkirk, Manitoba February in Manitoba can be harsh. Friends from warmer climates are often shocked to hear that, as a teacher in a rural Manitoba school division, I can...
Ancient Civilizations, Archeology, Historians

Ancient Civilizations, Archeology, Historians

Ancient Civilizations, Archeology, Historians By Laura Marshall Lindsay, Ontario November 2021 One day while teaching social studies a grade 4 student asked me a question that went something like this, “How do we know that the Egyptians did that? I mean if they didn’t...