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FEATURE
Jen Reid writes about teaching her grade 4/5 students to use design thinking to imagine and create a sustainable future community that relies on renewable energy
FEATURE
Sarah Lowes introduces The Sustainability LENSE, a tool designed to help us pause, ask sharper questions and weigh the systems behind each decision we make.

Columns

David Mastin
The fall has exemplified how the Ontario government continues to fail public education and reinforced for your provincial Executive the importance of ETFO members being organized and engaged, particularly as we head into collective bargaining next year.
Sharon O’Halloran
The fall has been a very busy time at ETFO, supporting members confronting historically large class sizes and pushing back against a provincial government that has been dead set on taking over school boards instead of addressing the real issues in public schools that have resulted from years of underfunding.
Izida Zorde
This year, ETFO’s winter issue of Voice is is our environment issue, exploring resources and classroom practices to teach the next generation of activists to take care of the Earth and live more sustainably.

Spotlight

By Chad Mills
Chad Mills reflects on why public schools need more Black educators.
By Gordon Nore

For most of my 21 years as an elementary educator, I’ve worked as a teacher-librarian. One of the delights of my role is selecting new materials to share with colleagues and students. One of the challenges is finding books that reflect the diversity of the children I teach and their families.

By Amrita Kaul
Amrita Kaul writes about the ways in which chronic underfunding of public schools and large classes have stretched Special Education resources.