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Health Education

More health and safety education required for young workers

Young workers might be too eager with the desire to impress others and put themselves in dangerous situations Younger people in the workplace need more health and safety education. This is especially timely as many students will soon be taking on summer jobs in Ontario. That is the crux of a statement this past week from Workplace Safety North (WSN), a not-for-profit health and safety association funded by the provincial government with offices in Sudbury and North Bay. WSN said that between 2011 and 2020, there were more than 70,000 reported injuries among workers aged 15 to 24 in Ontario,…
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Data shows mental health, education declines for Hoosier kids

According to the Indiana Youth Institute, the kids are not alright. The Hoosier State continues to lag behind its peers when it comes to child wellbeing, rank 28th overall – just one place ahead of its ranking last year. But it has made strides in reducing the number of foster children in the state. “Just like we keep stats for all of our basketball games… we also keep track of the data on child wellbeing,” said Tami Silverman, the president and CEO of Indiana Youth Institute. “We’re driven by the understanding that Indiana is a great place to be a…
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Queen’s Weeneebayko Health Education Program launched with support from the Mastercard Foundation to transform Indigenous healthcare in the region | Faculty of Health Sciences | Queen’s University | Faculty of Health Sciences

The Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA), Queen’s University, and the Mastercard Foundation are partnering to transform healthcare in Northeastern Ontario and to expand education and employment opportunities for Indigenous youth by creating the Queen’s Weeneebayko Health Education Program. WAHA and Queen’s Health Sciences will co-develop a university curriculum for health professions training in the western James Bay region. The program will prepare Indigenous students for careers in medicine, nursing, midwifery, and other health professions through culturally-informed education. Programming and resources will also be created to enable local youth to envision, pursue, and succeed in health professions training right from high…
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The Thinking Classroom: An Interview with Peter Liljedahl

Listen to my interview with Peter Liljedahl (transcript): Sponsored by Listenwise and Wipe book This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? This post was supposed to be just for math teachers. I was going to share an instructional approach that, as dramatic as this sounds, has taken the math world by storm. The methodology is called Thinking Classrooms, and now that I have gotten a closer look at…