by BRIGHT LIGHT Paul Dwyer   Teaching Students to Be Genuine in Disingenuous Times   Students’ Lens on Reality I am fascinated by how much information we are exposed to each day. Studies say it averages 100GB every day which is the equivalent of watching the entire series of Stranger Things. By contrast, teachers grew...Read More

by BRIGHT LIGHT Melissa Brown   The education system has long been seen as the antidote to society’s ills and a mechanism for change. Fast-forward to 2024, and the pace of change is leaving schools as we know them in the dust. Consequently, individual teachers can feel uncertain about how to navigate the day-to-day. Despite...Read More

by Vicky Essebag As adults, we can all remember the challenges of peer pressure, navigating relationships, and healthy decision-making during our school years. As parents, we don’t always know how to impart these skills, recognizing that they are a skillset that require experience and that we ourselves continue to build over a lifetime. But what...Read More

by BRIGHT LIGHT Brenda Carbery-Tang Teens these days are feeling disconnected from the world around them. They spend much of their time online passively observing, in snippets and soundbites, a world where people don’t seem to care or take care of each other. Young people show up to the classroom wearing hard outer protective shells...Read More

by James Darling   Being the Director of Character and Leadership Development at Holy Trinity School in Richmond Hill, Ontario Canada is my dream job because I get to hang out in the classrooms and in the hallways and think about how we can develop better leadership, character, and values in our students. But the...Read More

by Brett Kavanagh   The past two years have been an incredible time to be in education and to continue to be fostering leadership in ourselves, our staff and in young people. As a musician by trade, I pride myself on being able to balance practise with improvisation, and as a leader, I noted that...Read More

by Joy Buckner   When I look back on my years in the classroom, I always have fond memories of the first days of school.  There is nothing more exciting than meeting your class for the first time… and nothing that can cause your anxiety to rear its ugly head faster.  Early on in my...Read More