Recognize and Report Alberta Teachers: Mr. Ryan Morgan from Tom Baines Junior High School, currently teaching at Robert Thirsk High School in Calgary, Alberta

Thank you Alberta, Canada, Turtle Island and particularly Katie Ronald, the sender of our sixth report, who reached out to share her experience with a former Alberta teacher: Mr. Ryan Morgan from Tom Baines Junior High School, currently teaching at Robert Thirsk High School in Calgary, Alberta

This report made me so happy! I was so excited to read about how this teacher scaffolds and differentiates for their students! In case you do not know, scaffolding is exactly what it sounds like: scaffolding students with supports to ensure they can reach their top potential; and differentiating is also exactly what it sounds like: teachers take the curriculum content and teach it in different ways to ensure each and every student understands, retains, and can apply the knowledge.

As we enter the fourth week of September, I am looking forward to this wonderful 2026-2027 school year where we #RecognizeandReport Alberta Teachers!

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See the comments given about Mr. Ryan Morgan below:

From what I can gather, Mr. Morgan was doing something teachers do every single day that often goes completely unrecognized: figuring out how to make the learning stick.

He scaffolded. He differentiated. He made the content relatable and engaging. He found a way to take something that felt completely foreign and connect it to something this student already understood.

And that's the part of teaching people don't always see. That's the part of teaching that is most often taken for granted, in my experience and professional opinion.

Teachers are constantly making these little adjustments behind the scenes; changing an example, finding a different explanation, building a connection, breaking something down, making it relevant, approaching the same concept from an entirely different direction, etc. etc. etc...

Not just so a student can get the right answer on a test, but so they can actually understand how and why the answer is right, remember it later, and ideally recognize where that knowledge applies later on beyond the classroom.

That's what teaching in the 21st century is all about!

And the best part: sometimes, those small adjustments change how a student sees themselves as a learner.

Mr. Morgan didn't just help a student get through math. He helped prove that maybe math wasn't something 'coded' students 'couldn't do' after all... And let's be real, that's the kind of work teachers do on the regular. Quietly. Constantly. And often without ever knowing just how far those little moments will carry.

And, that's something worth reporting on and recognizing in Alberta, Canada, here on Turtle Island! I look forward to hearing from you and sharing another report next Tuesday!

Ciao for now!

Ashley + LLP