KAVANAGH: Alberta needs more tradespeople in classrooms — not just more education degrees

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Western Standard

Alberta’s education system serves 835,000 students and 53,000 teachers. Change is hard in systems that big. There’s a heavy bias toward doing things “the way they’ve always been done,” because, well, they are the way things have always been done. But when challenges add up — and students, parents, and teachers have certainly faced a lot of challenges in this past year — they offer an invitation to identify what’s not working and develop new solutions.