My classroom is not a group of K-12 students but a nation of K-12 social studies educators in the United States whom I encourage to teach about Canada. For example, I was recently asked to write a regular column in History Matters! for the National Council for History Education based on the e-resource notices that I send to a listserv of over a thousand educators in the US (see www.k12studycanada.org and look under "news" and then "resource notices"). I also coordinate an annual workshop called the "STUDY CANADA Summer Institute for K-12 Educators" which will be held in Ottawa and Montreal next July (with "Nations within a Nation" as the theme).

Should I win a class set of this issue of Kayak, I would share the resource with participants of the institute or with participants of the "Canada Clinic" that I am organizing for the National Council for the Social Studies conference in Denver on November 11, 2010. The set would be a great way to not only encourage connections to Canada regarding citizenship in Canada but also subscriptions to the magazine.

I hope you will consider the value of supporting the outreach work that our National Resource Center on Canada performs to build knowledge about Canada south of the border.