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Lisa Starr

  • Spa Business Consultant, Wynne Business Consulting & Education
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Being taught by people who know stuff instead of prepared teachers risks our children’s futures

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By Lisa Starr
| Tolerance Canada
By Lisa Starr, Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge In Canada, we need more qualified teachers. Alberta’s Expedited Teaching Certificates, introduced in April 2026, have been presented as a solution to getting more teachers in classrooms. So have other shortened… Read complete article © The Conversation -
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By Lisa Starr
| The Conversation Verified
In Canada, we need more qualified teachers. Alberta’s Expedited Teaching Certificates, introduced in April 2026, have been presented as a solution to getting more teachers in classrooms. So have other shortened university teacher education programs, recently announced in Ontario and in Nova Scotia in 2023. In Alberta, four new expedited teaching certificate pathways will require training related to the province’s standard of professional competence and conduct.
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Being taught by people who know stuff instead of prepared teachers risks our children’s futures

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By Lisa Starr
| Flipboard
1 hour ago To the Editor: Re “The Slump in Student Achievement Persists” (The Upshot, May 16): Our tragic educational decline requires preaching as well as teaching. The teachers are the foot soldiers, but we have no generals inspiring the entire population, not just the students, to find the pleasure in deep …
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