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Pearson, George – Education Canada, 2012
Education Canada asked Tom Thompson, president of Olds College and a prime mover behind the Community Learning Campus (CLC): What were the lessons learned from this unusually ambitious education project? Thompson mentions six lessons he learned from this complex project which include: (1) Dream big, build small, act now; (2) Keep a low profile at…
Descriptors: Profiles, Foreign Countries, Administrative Principles, Change Strategies
Hargreaves, Andy; Shirley, Dennis – Education Canada, 2012
In 2010, when the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's (OECD) released its 2009 PISA results, the big story was that eight of the top ten performing systems were Asian. Almost everyone overlooked the strong performance of Canada: sixth overall and the highest English-speaking and French-speaking nation in the world. The four…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Public Education