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Emily Mannard

Celebrating a Tradition of Connection, Collaboration and Care

    On a bright and sunny morning in March 2025, the ATEQ community excitedly met for the 50th anniversary of our flagship conference, Springboards. Hosted within McGill University’s Faculty of Education, this year’s iteration of Springboards provided an essential venue for connection, collaboration and care amongst a diverse group of attendees and presenters, including ELA educators teaching within elementary, high school and university classrooms, B.Ed. and MATL student teachers, librarians, and pedagogic consultants.

    Adaptive assessments: A Special Edition of ELA Today

      From video games and social media platforms, to fanfiction works and tabletop games, ELA educators have increasingly chosen to draw from popular culture texts to diversify curricula and engage contemporary youth. While the potential of these texts is excitingly vast, dreaming up accompanying assessments can prove to be a daunting task. In this year’s special edition of ELA Today, the voices of six writers navigating various educational environments – from high school ELA classrooms, to research-focused settings, and university-level programs – have come together to reflect on meaningful strategies for adaptive assessments. 

      Digital Diversifications: Special Edition for ELA Today

        Commonly depicted as frivolous entertainment, wasted time, or even dangerous, students’ out-of-school digital interests are largely excluded from formal learning contexts. Moving past our own potential biases (and the ever-present technophobic headlines shouting “SCREEN ADDICTION!” and “VIOLENCE IN VIDEOGAMES!”), helps to reveal the ways in which youth turn to the digital to learn, forge community, and discover voice: processes most educators would deem as essential in ELA.