About Us
Learning for a Cause was founded in 2004 at Lester B. Pearson High School by award-winning educator Michael Ernest Sweet. The initiative has a threefold mandate:
1) To provide students with engaging and authentic opportunities to share their thoughts and opinions with the community and the world at large.
2) To build a national archive of student writing by publishing books and depositing them with various national and local libraries.
3) To strengthen student imaginations, particularly in the area of social justice as a gateway to creating a better world.
Although generally concerned with sociopolitical writing, Learning for a Cause operates a number of projects such as Writes4Rights and the Pearson Prize.
Learning for a Cause books have won numerous awards such as the Quebec Entrepreneurial Award in both 2006 and 2009, various finalist awards at the World Indie Book Awards and have attracted endorsements from such celebrities as Martin Sheen, Farley Mowat, David Suzuki and Candy Spelling.
Regularly featured in print with the Montreal Gazette and Canadian Teacher Magazine and on radio and TV such as CBC, CTV and NPR, Learning for a Cause is becoming a force in school-based publishing.
1) To provide students with engaging and authentic opportunities to share their thoughts and opinions with the community and the world at large.
2) To build a national archive of student writing by publishing books and depositing them with various national and local libraries.
3) To strengthen student imaginations, particularly in the area of social justice as a gateway to creating a better world.
Although generally concerned with sociopolitical writing, Learning for a Cause operates a number of projects such as Writes4Rights and the Pearson Prize.
Learning for a Cause books have won numerous awards such as the Quebec Entrepreneurial Award in both 2006 and 2009, various finalist awards at the World Indie Book Awards and have attracted endorsements from such celebrities as Martin Sheen, Farley Mowat, David Suzuki and Candy Spelling.
Regularly featured in print with the Montreal Gazette and Canadian Teacher Magazine and on radio and TV such as CBC, CTV and NPR, Learning for a Cause is becoming a force in school-based publishing.
