December 22, 2024
Education News Canada

THE CONVERSATION
Teachers lack resources to meet classroom needs, and absences shouldn't surprise us

December 16, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted schooling on a global scale, challenging teachers with a flood of unmanageable demands.

These demands have persisted, resulting in an echo-pandemic of educator absences and attrition educators leaving their jobs that threatens the health of schools.

We wrote about ways to support teachers during the pandemic based on our 2020 national survey of more than 1,300 Canadian teachers.

Since then, we have followed more that 7,000 educators in their navigation and coping efforts during and after the pandemic. From these findings, we published more than 25 research articles, including 13 peer-reviewed articles, plus 12 articles for educators' journals, reports to government and to the Canadian Mental Health Association, and one podcast. 

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