Fall is always busy as our member associations put on professional learning opportunities in British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Attending a provincial social studies conference can help you connect with the resources that you need, but most of all it can help you to connect with teachers across your province who can inspire you to try new things, and to help your students to engage with their own histories and their own communities.

While Alberta teachers rightly focus on their ongoing labour action, the province’s recent (albeit rescinded) attempt to remove books from school libraries points to a larger pattern that reaches beyond Alberta. The Social Studies Educators Network of Canada (SSENC) remains deeply concerned by these growing efforts to restrict what can be taught and read in Canadian classrooms.

The Samara Centre for Democracy has been providing insights into our political system for decades. And in the last few years they have been developing podcasts you can use in the classroom

Amnesty International Canada is part of a global movement defending human rights through research, advocacy, and grassroots action. We work with students and educators to promote justice, equality, and solidarity — and to show that young people can be powerful agents of change.

SSENC/RESSC held its AGM via ZOOM in September and selected the heart of our leadership, the table officers, a dynamic team representing diverse regions of Canada who work collaboratively to guide the network’s vision and initiatives.

Teaching history can be hard-how do we engage our students with lessons of our past when we have not lived this experience? Juno Beach offers this opportunity for educators across our country.

Since 1993, Heritage Fair has encouraged young people across the country to engage in the history of our country.

Spark meaningful conversations about elections and democracy
The Civic Education Program at Elections Canada provides free learning resources, student-friendly information and professional development opportunities to support educators in teaching about elections and democracy at any time, not only during an election.

Les Décrypteurs are a team of journalists who aim to combat misinformation in order to help citizens, young and old, to distinguish what is true and what is false among the information circulating on social media.

Canada and Newfoundland made a vital contribution to the Allied victory in the Second World War, leveraged by our strategic location, vast resources, industrial capacity, high education standards, and historic European connections.