What did you do in school today?: Transforming Classrooms through Social, Academic and Intellectual Engagement

This report contains research highlights of this student engagement initiative from a survey of 31,000 students in Grades 6-12 in 93 Canadian schools.

Please visit our What did you do in school today? web page to access additional supporting documents and summaries detailing this ground breaking initiative. For the latest updates visit the What did you do in school today? blog.

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CEA's 2009 Education Research Review

This is the second annual year-end review of education research that has been featured on the CEA website and in the Bulletin, our monthly newsletter. It summarizes, by theme, notable reports, briefs and studies, identifying trends and highlighting areas of consensus, tension, and discrepancy. Also included are recommendations to related articles from Education Canada, CEA’s flagship magazine. We trust you will find it useful for your work, and encourage you to share it with colleagues.

CEA's 2009 Education Research Review (PDF, 15 pages, 452 KB)

Education Canada Winter 2009-2010

Our latest issue features a collection of breathtaking photos in the article, Digital Storytelling: Preserving a Cultural Tradition (PDF). This story recaps how a group of Canadian educators traveled to a small village in Tanzania, armed with digital cameras, which they placed in the hands of local villagers to complement and enhance their storytelling culture. A special thank you to Jeff Young of the Village Galleries project, who agreed to share his work with us.

Featured Article: Beyond Doing School: From ‘Stressed-out’ to ‘Engaged in Learning’ (PDF)

Denise Pope, Senior Lecturer at the Stanford University School of Education, shares insights and approaches developed by the Challenge Success Initiative, a research and intervention project she co-founded in 2004 to address the widespread disengagement and poor physical and mental health issues facing secondary students in the U.S.

The 2009 Whitworth Forum - Event Recap

Dr. Joel Westheimer (2009 winner of the CEA Whitworth Award for Education Research) participated in a panel discussion alongside national and Nova Scotian educational leaders who offered their perspectives in response to his Whitworth lecture.

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