Editorial: Pressing Forward Together

Leyton Schnellert is Co-Editor of Update and and a part-time Faculty Associate, Field Programs, Faculty of Education, SFU. leyton_schnellert@sfu.ca Why spend the entire summer assembling an edition of Update? Good question. Apart from the collective sigh of relief from the contributors to this edition (who doesn’t want an extra six weeks to rework the last […]

Navigating English Language Arts in the 21st Century

We had a great time at the conference. The new Saturday institutes were a great success! For those who were there, we hope you enjoyed your sessions. It was wonderful to meet old and new friends and, together, to explore the ideas and discuss the challenges facing English Language Arts in the 21st Century. For […]

Editorial: Teaching Language Arts is Border Crossing

Leyton Schnellert Leyton Schnellert is Co-Editor of Update and and a part-time Faculty Associate, Field Programs, Faculty of Education, SFU. leyton_schnellert@sfu.ca Teaching is political and personal; individual and relational; responsive and bureaucratic. Perhaps we, as English Language Arts Teachers, are better prepared to live and understand these dichotomies than other teaching disciplines, for we specialize […]