Quebec teachers, projects, and professional care.
QPAT-APEQ Podcast is a practical, teacher-facing series built around conversations with Quebec teachers and association members. Its episodes move from school gardens and student fundraisers to new teacher support, social-emotional learning, mental health, and international teaching exchanges.
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QPAT-APEQ Podcast is a teacher-centered education series rooted in Quebec classrooms and association life. Its episodes are built around interviews, bilingual exchanges, and project stories rather than detached commentary. The show often sounds like professional colleagues comparing notes across schools. It is generous in tone, but the focus stays concrete. In the Get Connected series, teachers and students describe projects that have already taken shape, including school-wide fundraising for the We Only Child Foundation through Wacky Hair Day, bake sales, and a read-a-thon. Another Get Connected episode centers on teacher shout-outs, with Brian Benoit discussing recognition, collegial support, and the everyday ways teachers help one another. A school garden conversation with Matt McKechnie and Brennan McCambley gives the show a hands-on strand, moving from soil and beds to the larger idea of making food-growing part of student life. French-language and bilingual episodes add a second texture. Nathalie and Gonzague speak about emotion, multiple intelligences, future careers, and the human support teachers can give one another. Other episodes turn toward professional development and teacher growth. The New Teacher Toolkit entry points toward social-emotional learning, emotional literacy, self-regulation, healthy relationships, and inclusive classroom strategies. Teaching Together and CTF-FCE ICE bring in international cooperation, co-facilitation, classroom engagement, movement breaks, music, and pedagogical exchange with teachers in Africa and the Caribbean. The show also includes a TED Talk episode with Dr Andrew Miki of Starling Minds on coping mechanisms, smartphone use, anxiety, depression, resilience, and self-confidence. Across these varied entries, QPAT-APEQ Podcast keeps returning to a few steady concerns: teachers need support, students benefit from meaningful projects, and professional learning works best when it is shared openly. It suits a listener who wants grounded education material from working teachers, students, and association members. The pace is conversational and often affectionate, with enough practical detail to make the projects feel usable rather than decorative.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants classroom-grounded education stories from Quebec teachers, students, and association members. It also fits educators looking for practical examples of collegial support, student projects, and professional learning.
What sets it apart: Its strongest distinction is the mix of bilingual association context and concrete school-level projects, from teacher shout-outs to gardens, read-a-thons, and international cooperation. The show keeps education advocacy close to everyday classroom practice.
QPAT works to protect our individual rights and to work towards the collective good of all teachers across the province, and also to ensure student learning conditions and quality public education in Quebec.Nous unissons nos efforts pour protéger nos droits individuels et travailler au bien collectif de tout le corps enseignant de la province, ainsi qu'assurer des conditions propices à l'apprentissage des élèves et la qualité de l'éducation publique au Québec.
Grass becomes a school garden; your classroom idea list may need a new page.
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A teacher's garden project turns underused school land into a practical lesson in growth.
A school garden becomes a grounded look at how an education project can outgrow its first patch of land. Brennan brings Matt's work into view after seeing that his videos were about more than planting.
Two teachers connect emotional learning, classroom collaboration, and the courage to imagine a future.
Nathalie and Gonzague bring teaching back to a human starting point: the wish to help, to guide, and to do a fair share of the work that shapes young people.
A grounded account of the waiting, heat, and shared planning behind a teacher volunteer's summer abroad.
The QPAT-APEQ Podcast follows a PTU member into Teaching Together, a summer volunteer project where Canadian teachers support professional development through a CTF-FCE program linked with teaching organizations in Africa and the Caribbean.
A grounded PlayNext conversation about professional exchange as mutual learning, not one-way service.
This PlayNext review finds its best footing in the classroom, where Canadian educators reflect on icebreakers, movement breaks, music, and dancing as ways to reach very large groups of students.
A teacher's year-long step toward Benin turns self-doubt into a grounded case for professional risk.
Teaching adults in Benin becomes a measured story of confidence tested over a year, shaped by Nadia Charest's account of CTF FCS Project Overseas.
Ideas, ready for the classroom.
Classroom craft with thoughtful momentum.
Classroom stories from the substitute's side of the desk.
Music-room lessons from the people behind Musicplay, sung aloud.
Miss Daphne, a grade-five teacher at Edgewater Elementary, traces the partnership to a 2017 Peace Crane Exchange found on Twitter.
Brian Benoit says teacher shout-outs can take “almost a minute” to submit while helping colleagues feel seen and valued.
QPAT-APEQ Podcast features Brennan McCambley and Matt McKechnie discussing nosh, the school project built around Matt's garden and cafeteria food.
Nathalie, enseignante de quatrième année à l’école Royalville et mentor à l’IMSB, et Gonzague, enseignant à Willingdon pour la commission scolaire English Montréal, racontent comment un remplacement de congé de maternité a lancé leur collaboration.
Arla Karno describes volunteering in the 2025 Teaching Together program, where a four-person Canadian team spent two and a half weeks in The Gambia training teachers with the Gambia Teachers Union.
Brennan McCandley discusses the New Teacher Toolkit workshop at the QPAT convention, focusing on social-emotional learning for new teachers.
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QPAD's conversation with Nadia Charest and Karianne Zikar centers on CTF-FCE Project Overseas, now called International Cooperation for Education, where more than 50 Canadian teachers volunteer every July in Africa and the Caribbean.
Nadia Charest says CTF FCS Project Overseas in Benin was "life-changing" and began in February with team meetings in Ottawa.
Evergreen Elementary students collected about 1.3 million tabs over three school years and displayed them at a May 24 assembly.
Heidi Berger introduces authors of a new teacher's guide on teaching genocide, discussing its development and reception among educators.
Heidi Yetman interviews Charlie Patton about an upcoming Earth Day co-taught lesson featuring Indigenous stories to celebrate Mother Earth.