Due to severe flooding in July, Barnett House will remain closed until early 2027.
The ATA Library is still open and providing resources to members.
Staff are working from home and continue to serve members online and by phone.
The Southern Alberta Regional Office (SARO) in Calgary is unaffected and conducts business per usual.
Then and Now
Archival issues of the ATA Magazine can be just as relevant now as they were when originally published, or they can remind us how far we’ve come. You decide.
Check out these items from the December 1954 issue of the ATA Magazine, which looked at topics ranging from curriculum to teacher recruitment to a new technology: television
Television, let me repeat, is here to stay, and we parents and teachers will have to accept it. But this is not a summons to grin and bear it or even to concentrate all our efforts in the direction of better programs. If by some magic every program, beginning today, were to be a model of excellence, we parents and teachers would still have an important task: to teach our children to use wisely this electronic wonder that scientists and engineers have given to us. One parent questioned in the survey put the problem sagely when he said, ‘Life should be lived, not watched.’
— Paul Witty,
“How to Live With TV.”
The importance of exhibiting children's pictures cannot be overestimated. Large bulletin boards in rooms and many bulletin boards in the halls are needed. […] These exhibits should be on the hall bulletin boards at the end of the first week of school. They will not be good, but as the weeks go by, the pictures will be better. Some pictures may be taken down when others are ready to put up. The exhibit is, therefore, continual.
— Jessie Todd,
“Art and the Classroom Teacher.”
We can't afford an educational system which is less than the very best. It is wishful thinking to expect educational service of quality unless the teaching profession can attract and retain the best people in our society. There is no building, no curriculum, no textbook, however good, which can substitute for or replace professional teachers.
— F.J.C. Seymour,
“Editorial.”
