Black Educators BC Network (BlackEd) is a network of prospective, current, and retired Black educators in public and private K–12 ...

What we can do is focus on creating spaces where marginalized voices are heard, where everyone listens with respect and an open mind ...

“Isn’t that just dandy?” A common yet dated turn-of-phrase to indicate that something is excellent or ...

Building awareness about racism and oppression through education and training is central to becoming a more inclusive and equitable...

Happy Black history and futures month! Black History Month was first recognized in Toronto in 1979, and a decade later it was observed...

For years, Mel Scheuer was acutely aware of the absence of Black voices in classroom lessons and resources about BC and Canada’s history...

Promise Boys is a recently published book that is a murder mystery novel for students who like a fast-paced read with multiple...

In the fall of 2017, Carmel Bennett, youth and family counsellor at Cedar Hill Middle School in Victoria, BC, noticed that many of her...

The May/June 2023 edition of Teacher magazine is a first for the Federation: it is the first written entirely by...

I grew up in a suburb of Toronto in the 1980s and 1990s as the daughter of Caribbean immigrants, and the only Black student in my class...

Over the past several months, members involved in the BIPOC 2050 Project have hosted gatherings...

Standing out as the only person of colour in a room is not a new experience for me...

BIPOC authors recommended by BIPOC readers

As educators, it is our hope that all students and staff feel comfortable and safe at school...

Over spring break, Natasha and I met to catch up—and discuss facets of our teacher identity...

Q&A with Rick Kumar and Marilyn Ricketts-Lindsay, recently elected to the BCTF Executive Committee

A free-verse monologue on identity, representation, and self

We gathered some perspectives from former students who were a part of Rockridge Secondary’s Youth Alliance for Intersectional Justice...

It may seem like anti-racism is best left to the humanities, but that is not true...