Recently, teachers in Alberta have made headlines as they push for better pay and working conditions. Striking is their legal right, a right that allows them to stand up for fair treatment and the resources they need to do their jobs well.

As an educational publication, we often hear directly from teachers about the challenges they face. It’s not an easy profession. Teaching can be a thankless, exhausting job—one that demands emotional resilience, endless patience, and deep dedication. The least the rest of us can do is support their right to advocate for themselves and for their students.

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Education knows no borders. The challenges teachers face—whether in Canada, the U.S., or beyond—are shared struggles, and the victories of one classroom ripple across many. Now more than ever, we believe in the power of knowledge, community, and unwavering support for those shaping the next generation.

No matter where you teach or what obstacles arise, know that you are not alone. We will continue to amplify voices, share resources, and stand by educators everywhere. Because in times of uncertainty, learning, collaboration, and solidarity are more important than ever.

Together, we move forward.

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A recent conversation with a teacher was illuminating. I was trying to explain how to log on to one of TEACH Magazine’s digital resources and I realized that this teacher expected the process to be far more complicated. When I explained it was really rather simple, she said that teachers are afraid of technology and it was a natural instinct to assume that technology was complicated and would, inevitably, at some point, screw up.

This raises the question as to whether teachers are techno-phobic. Based on a single conversation, of course, it is impossible to generalize. Still, it confirmed a feeling that I’ve had for a while based on the queries we’ve fielded concerning our digital resources focusing on very rudimentary questions about signing up and logging in. The most basic of processes, in other words.

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There is bitterness and recrimination in British Columbia as both the government and the BC Teachers Federation dig in their heels on opposite sides of the labour disruption. And disruption is the reality. Calling the dispute a strike conjures the image of only two sides pitted against each other with a minimum of inconvenience to society at large.

In this instance, it is more than that. There are more than two sides at play. Students are being denied an education, to which they are constitutionally entitled. Parents are put out because their children are not in school and many have to scramble for home care incurring additional expense if they can find a place and/or more time away from work.

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By Richard Worzel

In my past columns, I focused on how education will change. This time, I focus on why it must change.

The society in which we live is driven mainly by commercial interests. The daily bombardment of advertising and its pervasive yet subtle pressures to own something are so common that we hardly notice its influence. Society does not suffer because these pressures exist; after all, this type of pressure has largely been responsible for the richness and luxury of our lives. Yet, there is more to life than commercial offerings especially because they are shallow and lack deeper purpose. Moreover, commerce and society tends to emphasize novelty and while there is nothing wrong with new things per se, there is much more to life than just the novel.

There are few people however, who would delve deeper than today’s satisfactions and that is where education enters the picture. Education provides context to history, art, depth of understanding, and perspective that some people would not otherwise experience. This is part of the traditional role education fulfills in teaching about culture and the transmission of our society’s values.

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By Richard Worzel

One thing I hear from teachers on a regular basis is that a small, but growing percentage of parents are ignoring their responsibilities as parents, that they are leaving their kids to grow up as uncivilized savages instead of learning how to be responsible human beings. Such parents are shirking the jobs they (probably) volunteered for, and endangering the rest of us, harming themselves, but most of all harming their own children.

Their kids come to school as ill-mannered, foul-mouthed brats with an attitude that makes it hard for them to learn, and interferes with teachers’ ability to teach other kids as well. So how should you, in this day and age, be a responsible parent? What is the job description that goes with the position?

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