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Helping Our Kids Deal With Cyberbullying: A TELUS Wise Parent’s Guide Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: TELUS Wise | MediaSmarts This parent guide provides information about cyberbullying, and includes practical tips on how to help prevent or reduce the impact of cyberbullying, what you should do if your child is targeted or if your child is cyberbullying someone, and how you can help your child stand up to cyberbullying.

Education: global citizenship education in context Corporate author: Global Hive In a fast-changing and globalized reality, there are many who believe that education can, and should, help young people to meet the challenges they will confront now and in the future, and that educating for global citizenship is now more important and urgent than ever before. Upon reflection back over this decade of work, however, there is an indication that not a lot of progress has been made in expanding education for global citizenship (Schulz, 2007; Canadian Council for International Cooperation, 2004). In the early 1990s, with the financial assistance of the Canadian International Development Agency and inspired by visions of global solidarity, Canadian schools and community organizations joined together in efforts to educate students on global society, though since then funding has been cut drastically, and coordinated efforts across sectors have decreased, as schools and NGOs face their own budget cuts. In a recent poll conducted by VisionCritical and the Inter-Council Network of Provincial and Regional Councils for Global Cooperation, it was found that one third of Canadians rank global poverty (hunger in the world) among the first, second and third most concerning issues to them globally. Moreover, the majority of Canadians believe there is a human rights obligation to reduce global poverty, and believe there are significant benefits to doing so, including improving Canada’s international reputation, reducing global conflict, and reducing risks of pandemics. Global Citizenship Education is essential for the following reasons: Education for Global Citizenship gives young people access to the knowledge, understanding, skills, and values that they need to participate fully in ensuring their own and others’ well-being, and to make a positive contribution both locally and globally. Global Citizenship Education involves children and youth fully in their own learning through the use of a range of activities and participatory learning methods. This engages the learner, but also develops confidence, self-esteem, and skills of critical thinking, communication, cooperation and conflict resolution. Current use of the world’s resources is inequitable and unsustainable. As the gap between the rich and the poor widens, poverty continues to deny millions of people around the world their basic human rights. Education is a powerful tool for changing the world because tomorrow’s adults are the children and youth we are educating today. For teachers interested in promoting global citizenship, the next and most immediate question is how: How can I integrate and teach global citizenship education when I have so many other pressing curriculum requirements to get through with my students? How does Global Citizenship Education relate to English Language Arts or Physical Education? This toolkit seeks to provide information on how global citizenship education can be integrated into many areas of the curriculum, offer some tools and methods by which to do so, and present some illustrative case studies to provide inspiration and guidance.

Localizing the 2030 Agenda in British Columbia Year of publication: 2020 Author: Zosa De Sas Kropiwnicki-Gruber | Dan Harris Corporate author: British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC) This report details a British Columbian civil society response to the Government of Canada’s current interim national Sustainable Development Goals strategy. The report provides feedback on the interim strategy and Canada’s engagement with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including recommendations linked to the interim strategy’s key actions. At this time it represents the only provincial scale civil society consultation on the strategy in Canada. The report begins by introducing the origin of the interim national SDG strategy and the rationale for holding the consultation. While the following section on “What we heard” captures common themes on how to improve the strategy and Canada’s engagement with the SDGs, the report then concludes with recommendations synthesized from these suggestions on the ways in which we can strengthen and enact the interim national SDG strategy.

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