• “As educators, we have the honour and the opportunity to shape the views of children during their time spent in school. We can facilitate the understanding of truth and the development of respectful relationships in our classrooms. School administrators have a responsibility to support teachers in this important work and expand upon it by fostering respectful relationships to the greater school community and an acknowledgement of Indigenous place.”
    • Charlene Bearhead 
  • “To teach is to learn twice over.”
    • Joseph Joubert
  • “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t”
    • Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and the Being Free
  • “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    • Helen Keller
  • “Children have not changed. Childhood has. The Children around us are merely reflecting the challenging, sometimes scary changes in their environment and world.”
    • Barbara Oehlberg, Making It Better
  • “Love first, learn later”
    • Cori Saas
  • “Pennycook (1999) proposed that a critical stance in education involves connecting language to broader political contexts and ethical concerns with issues of inequality, oppression, and compassion.”
    • Diane Dagenais
  • It sounds so simple, but if we as teachers put more effort into who we are teaching, more of the what would take care of itself.
    • Katie, Elementary Teacher (Freeman & Freeman, 6)