It’s election day. In a democracy, citizens ultimately receive the government they deserve. If you believe politics aren't your concern, remember: elections invariably carry consequences. Never take the right to vote for granted—it is both a privilege and a responsibility.

That's why it's important to model disagreement and provide heterodox spaces for dissenting views. Students at our events have voiced similar concerns—one compared an undergrad degree to "doing time."

I told my incoming class of pre-service teachers basically the same thing last week -and I'm a tech education professor Tom Bennett OBE

For many people who have never had the pleasure in working with challenging classes, managing behaviour is a luxurious thought experiment. They can dream about how their magical gifts of empathy and virtue would heal every and any disruption or classroom conflict. But children

Look at me, in the news, fancy: vocm.com/2025/06/23/272… MUN Education

Look what just arrived!

It is bizarre how many people in education see it as their job to indoctrinate children into their political beliefs. If you disagree, simply insert [political view I strongly disagree with] into the model, and it becomes easy to see why focussing on teaching the curriculum is

Darrin Pike, our Coordinator of Field Services has been featured in the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association Bulletin! His article, "Why Be a Mentor for an Intern?" can be read on pages 14 and 15: nlta.nl.ca/wp-content/upl…

Every time I hear someone say that ‘building relationships is how we get children to behave’ I’m amazed how often they then don’t define what A) they mean by a relationship B) how to actually build this mysterious thing. This leads to multiple errors, eg trying to get kids to

"88 percent of the students [at NWU & U Mich) said they pretended to be more progressive than they are in order to succeed academically or socially." Such preference falsification (caused by fear of punishment for honesty) can lead to "pluralistic ignorance" or a "spiral of

Truer words were seldom spoken!

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

At a time when millions across North America are grappling with the dire state of our political discourse in the wake of the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk — it is more important than ever that our educators respect for the rule of law and recognize the value of human

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe

Speech is not violence. Violence is not speech.

This is not good for anyone.

Every month, I post what I'm reading on my office door. 16 months worth here. Time to take them down and start filling the board again.

USC President Kim asked me for my thoughts about Charlie Kirk at USC’s Democracy Day celebration. There’s something more important than my message in this video. It’s what you don’t hear. No heckling. No disrespect. No shouting. I know that social media shows us the worst of

You cannot make learning easy and fun or relevant all the time. Thinking is *hard*, and the effort of doing so is part of what learning is (and part of the reward). Also a large part of what we are trying to do is to bring the unfamiliar galaxy of content to students and make

Encouraging children to take part in political activism for a cause you believe in- even if you think it’s just- is crossing the line. If we permit this then we open the door for children going to any protest, even ones you disagree with. Our job is *not* to indoctrinate them.