Standing up for our students
Teachers care about their students. Much of teachers’ work involves setting the conditions for successful student achievement.
Teachers advocate for the best learning conditions, such as smaller class sizes, a strong curriculum and full funding of all supports, at every opportunity.
Class size & complexity: Then & now
In June 2025, the Alberta Government created their Aggression and Complexity in Schools Action Team. Its mandate was to study the impact those issues have on the classroom. Five months later, they released their recommendations to address the problems we are seeing in schools today.
Many of their findings bear a striking resemblance to those outlined 22 years earlier in the Alberta’s Commission of Learning report (ACOL), a product of the 2002 teacher strike. Unfortunately, those recommendations were never acted upon, leaving aggression and complexity unaddressed in public education.
Compare the similarities between the recommendations from the two studies. It’s important we don’t allow the findings for the 2025 report suffer the same fate as those of the 2003 study.
2025 Aggression and complexity in schools action team recommendations
2003 Alberta’s Commission on Learning report and recommendations
