The View From Canada

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The view from Canada

By Beate Planche, Audrey Hobbs-Johnson, and Carol Campbell

Categories: Collaboration, Fundamentals, Implementation, International perspectives, Learning communities, Reaching all students, Standards for Professional Learning

June 2022

As colleagues representing two Canadian provinces and with a long-standing association with Learning Forward as affiliate members, we share a distinctly Canadian lens on the launch of the revised Standards for Professional Learning. First, a little context: In Canada, there is no federal department of education, nor is there a national system of education. Education is the responsibility of provinces and territories (which operate similarly to U.S. states), and provincial education ministries lead the organization, implementation, and assessment of education within their jurisdictions. However, the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, which is made up of ministers who represent the education interests of Canada’s 10 provinces and three territories, defines the Canadian priorities for elementary and secondary education. The council’s goal is to ensure that

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Audrey Hobbs Johnson (audreyhj@shaw.ca) is Executive Director of Learning Forward British Columbia. She works provincially and nationally in Professional Learning, providing leadership across a variety of key areas. She served as a founding member of Learning Forward Foundation that included a full term as Learning Forward Foundation Chair. Audrey lives in North Vancouver, BC.