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"Use your Bingo Voice," the teacher said, as the child tried to tell her story. We were in a kindergarten room doing a Telling Bee, and the five-year-old, eyes downcast, was shyly whispering her story to the class.

We teach a unique class of intensive ESL junior and senior kindergarten students. We have a minimum of 10 different first languages in our morning and afternoon classes - a total of 80 students from a variety of backgrounds.

Having a disability means being frequently unable to participate in activities other people take for granted. It also means confronting negative attitudes and reactions, which can be very challenging.

For the first time in years, teachers have many excellent opportunities to move within their systems, to relocate to other jurisdictions, or to pursue positions of added responsibility.

Cable in the Classroom (CITC) provides commercial-free, copyright-cleared, educational television programming free of charge to public schools across Canada.

What do today's teenagers think about gender equity and job equity?

At the World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, women from the Fédération des femmes du Québec (FFQ) proposed an ambitious plan to fight poverty and violence against women on an international scale.

Each child in your kindergarten classroom has different abilities, interests and experiences that shape and influence his or her learning.

The Education Now campaign has been endorsed by Education International, the Canadian Teachers’ Federation, and overwhelmingly by the delegates to the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario.