CANADIAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION/ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE D'EDUCATION
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Mission Statement
The EdCan Network has maintained its 129-year tradition as the only national, nonpartisan, bilingual organization representing 140,000 educators across Canada. Our role as an intermediary connects K-12 education systems across the country by producing and disseminating authoritative and evidence-based, yet accessible content that is trusted by educators, parents, and policymakers alike. EdCan aims to improve education policies that heighten equity and support deeper learning (i.e. a combination of the fundamental knowledge and practical basic skills all students need to succeed) and expanding the reach of educational resources to bridge the research-implementation gap.
About This Cause
EdCan has always been driven by vision. For the past 130 years as the Canadian Education Association (CEA) and now the EdCan Network, we have provided high-quality, research-based information to the thousands of professional educators who make up our pan-Canadian network. That vision has predominantly been one of collaboration. We have fostered relationships with Ministries of Education, professional associations, faculties of education, and a wide variety of other stakeholders in order to enhance the capacity of educators to respond to emerging challenges in public education. As far as visions go, ours is a bold one. However, after making the decision to re-imagine our place in the evolving K-12 world, boldness was required. Our EdCan Board and Advisory Council Members were asked to develop a planning model for change and identify a set of strategic and impactful program priorities. This was to be done on a pan-Canadian scale, applicable not just within jurisdictional frameworks, but also across jurisdictional boundaries. If that wasn’t ambitious enough, the global pandemic added just that much more incline to the already daunting hill we had set out to climb. As always, our group of dedicated volunteers and staff was up to the task. With collaboration as a key component of our work, and a set of strategic priorities in hand, we continued toward our ultimate goal: empowering leaders within the K-12 system with the tools they need to support K-12 educators, so that those educators can focus on supporting students. For the past four years, increasing staff wellbeing in schools has been a major focus for EdCan through the continued development of our Well at Work initiative. This work has centred around a series of interrelated projects that have predominantly been targeted toward educational policymakers and district leaders. This targeting was strategic. Although the goal of improving wellbeing for individual educators remained our focus, starting with that level of engagement was unlikely to generate the level of impact we were striving to achieve. A much broader, systemic approach was necessary in order for us to generate maximum effect. As the result of an extensive consultation process with our many stakeholders, and after enlisting the help of a core group of pan-Canadian experts in the field, EdCan launched two unique and exciting professional learning projects this past year: the Well at Work Advisors program and the Well at Work K-12 Leadership Course. Both programs were designed specifically to operate at a system leadership level in order to bestfacilitate system-wide change