By Holly Anghel, October 6 2025—On Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, thousands of Alberta teachers will hit the picket line in the province’s first general teachers’ strike in decades. The strike has prompted the Werklund School of Education to adapt its fall field experience practicums, affecting many students who were scheduled to begin their practicums this week. Marcelo Cano Cazares, a first-year student in the two-year Bachelor of Education after-degree program, was eager to begin his practicum. “Since then, I’ve wanted to play a role in educating people.”The anticipation quickly turned into uncertainty when news broke that the province-wide teachers’ strike would begin on Oct. 6 — the very day he was supposed to enter the classroom. For now, students like Cazares are trying to see the strike as a learning moment.