Whether you’re heading to school in person or online for virtual learning, this year has looked a little different. In collaboration with Van Ness Elementary School, Transcend Education sought to create social story booklets to help students navigate their time at school. Brought on by Pop Ed Consulting’s Stephanie Thai, Kelsey Davis was selected to illustrate the complete series.
Read MoreJohn Webster Illustrates the Queer Point of View on Catholic School Funding
John Webster created these graphic, punchy images for a three part article on Catholic School funding in Xtra magazine. John describes his thoughts behind the images: "Since the article was about Catholic education and the monies they receive, I wanted to use the money sign for each of the three illustrations. It becomes part of the character's face (see illustrations 1 & 2) and replaces a cross on the rosary worn by the nun (illustration 3). To illustrate how the Catholic schools will not allow queer kids to have a voice, I used the classic pink triangle symbol in all three illustrations. We see the symbol being destroyed in the first illustration, being worn proudly as a belt in the second and in and amongst the "taboo" words in the third."
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Betsy Everitt illustrates article on play in Kindergarten
Betsy, in her usual playful, naive style, was the perfect choice to illustrate the article "Are We Paving Paradise?" by Elizabeth Grue, in the April issue of Educational Leadership. The article tackles the shift that has occurred in education that promotes achievement over play. Elizabeth Grue also argues a case for including unstructured play in the curriculum.
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"My son's 'troubling'behaviours"- Thursday, May 6, 2010 Globe and Mail
Jillian Ditner has created a beautiful and quietly powerful image to accompany Rae Blackburn's story about her son, her own intuition and the attempts by various professionals to diagnose her son with a learning disability where none existed - just a different tempo to his development. For the full story, check out Facts and Arguments in Thursday, May 6, 2010 issue of the Globe and Mail. On the subject of "square pegs in a world of round holes" there is also an inspiring, funny talk on Ted - Sir Ken Robinson on the role of creativity in schools - it was posted back in 2006 and is still very relevant.