Matt Henderson is assistant superintendent of Seven Oaks School Division, a PhD candidate at the University of Manitoba, and an instructor at the Faculty of Education at the University of Winnipeg. He was the founding principal of the Maples Met School — a Big Picture Learning school.
Catch a Fire: Fuelling Inquiry and Passion Through Project-based Learning
Videos
Publications
Henderson, M. (2023). Verna Kirkness and Indigenous Educational Reclamation in Manitoba: 1969-1974. Paper presented at AERA 2023 in Chicago, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TkZLZ5lGvw569nS0jG5xpm7bH2a0mTQL78hXaJtY2oI/edit?usp=sharing
Henderson, M. (2022). Indigenous learners in the Manitoba Teacher: 1919-2019. Settler Colonial Studies, DOI:10.1080/2201473X.2022.2078468
Henderson, M. & Cook, M. (2022). Overcoming inert ideas: The power of design, agency, and experience. Paper presented at AERA 2022, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HTROHzSkEkPAxQ0YaoDwzmiKn88-zgkIWEhWJFSeHhI/edit?usp=sharing
Henderson, M. (2020). Teacher expertise is key. EdCan Network: https://www.edcan.ca/articles/teacher-expertise-is-key/
Henderson, M. (2020). Beyond the mask: Learning during COVID-19, Manitoba Association of School Superintendents Journal, Fall 2020. http://mass.mb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Fall-2020-Innovation-and-Resilience-During-the-COVID-19-Pandemic3.pdf
Henderson, M. (Ed.) (2019). Catch A Fire: A Guide to Project-based learning. Winnipeg: Portage and Main Press.
Henderson, M. (2016). Why it Matters: How Technology Might Help to Close the Ecological Knowledge and Knowledge-action Gaps. Excerpt From: Mike Nantais, Reynold Redekopp. Education and Technology – Manitoba Action and Reflection. iBooks.
Henderson, M. (2016). Bridging the ecological knowledge and knowledge gaps: a utopian vision for education in Manitoba (Master’s thesis). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31700
Henderson, M. (2015). Solar-Powered Learning. Journal for Sustainable Well- Being. Winnipeg: ESWB Press, http://www.eswb-press.org/uploads/ 1/2/8/9/12899389/sustainable_well-being_2014.pdf
Henderson, M. (2014). Experience, Meaning & Transformation. ASCD Manitoba Journal. Summer, 2014, Vol. 14, http://www.mbascd.ca/documents/ Journal2014Final_Online.pdf
Henderson, M. (2014). Achieving Transformation Online: Changing Attitudes and Behaviours in the 21st Century. Manitoba Education Resource Network Journal, Vol. 9., http://mern.ca/journal/Journal-V9.pdf
Henderson, M. (2014). The Future of History: Are You Experienced? Teaching Life. Summer 2014, http://issuu.com/umcatl/docs/ teachinglife_summer2014/33?e=12302655/8209943
Courses Designed & Taught
Topics in Experiential Education
Project-based Learning Theory
Project-based Learning Applied
Book Reviews
Christine M’Lot & Katya Adamov Ferguson — Resurgence
Gregory Forth — Between Ape and Human
Mike Berners-Lee — The Carbon Footprint of Everything
Dawn Morgan — Unsettled
Joe Miller — The Vaccine
Charlie Angus — Cobalt
Evelyn Forget — Radical Trust
Tomson Highway — Permanent Astonishment
Jody Wilson-Raybould. — Indian in the Cabinet
Clayton Thomas-Müller — Life in the of City of Dirty Water
Alex Renton — Blood Legacy
Jamie Swift & Eleanor Power — The Case for Basic Income
John Boyko — The Devil’s Trick
Mark Carney — Values
Alexandra Morton — Not on my Watch
Robert Boschman — White Coal City
Dammed — Brittany Luby
Ted Glenn — Embedded
James Raffan — Ice Walker
Janice Forsyth — Reclaiming Tom Longboat
Jeff Reuben — The Expendables
Claire Bond Potter — Political Junkies
Cynthia Levine-Rasky & Lida Kowalchuk — We Resist
Max Hamon — The Audacity of his Enterprise
Sheila Jones — Let the People Speak
John Mighton — All Things Being Equal
Edward Snowden — Permanent Record
Sara Rose Cavanaugh — Hivemind
Naomi Klein — On Fire
Maude Barlow — Whose Water is it Anyway?
Gordon Dillow — Fire in the Sky
Oliver Morton — The Moon
Darran Qualman — Civilization Critical
Dennis Lewycky — Magnificent Fight
Darrell Bricker & John Ibbitson — Empty Planet
Andrew Roberts — Churchill
Max Hastings — Vietnam
D’Arcy Jenish — The Making of the October Crisis
Bob Spitz — Reagan
Lawrence Burns — Autonomy
Mary Robinson — Climate Justice
Henry Giroux — American Nightmare
Joe Schwarcz — A Feast of Science
Ronan Farrow — War on Peace
Andrew Santella — Soon
Christian Davenport — Space Barons
David Frum — Trumpocracy
Niall Ferguson — The Square and the Tower
Adam Rutherford — A Brief History of Everyone Who Lived
Walter Isaacson — Leonardo da Vinci
Carol Off — All we Leave Behind
Chris Thomas — Inheritors of the Earth
Naomi Klein — No is not Enough
Al Franken — Al Franken
John Pihach — Mudeater
Mark Seidenberg — Language at the Speed of Sight
Peter MacLeod — Backs to the Wall
James Laxer — Staking Claim to a Continent
Peter Wilcox — Greenpeace Captain
Henderson Hallway 
I am writing on behalf of Dr. Lorna McLean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. We would like to contact you more directly to discuss your possible participation in a history symposium we are organizing in the fall of 2014. Please feel free to email me at jlalo070@uottawa.ca and we can forward a formal invitation for your consideration.
Mr. Henderson: I am sure you are a good teacher in your own capacity. It is good that you are alerting students using new media about important movements such as idle no more. There is a paradox here, though. This institution you teach in, Saint John’s R, is itself part of the legacy and currency of imperialism and colonialism. It is an English public school for gosh sake! It teaches competition, elitism, and the capitalist mode of production, as well as an ingrained sense of patriarchy. This person knows. I lived through physical abuse at this school. It is residential school for the rich, with the same goal – the reproduction of class. Violence is an implicit part of the S J R method.
You should come back and see the changes and bear witness to your experience. You are most welcome to share and lead.
Congrats, Matt ! — from an ex-labour historian of the Winnipeg Strike and its pan-Canada context, teacher, whilom union organizer, and now ecojustice agitator. I’ve just added this blog as a resource to my Facebook page where I’m compiling all the Wet’suwet’en news in one thread. See also for ecojustice work in progress https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7ttroce69ytsb57/AAB-pu9Zd-R7e0Uk11-iJXEEa?dl=0