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Day 115b (of 2025/26) #blackHistoryMonth book recommendation – Weirdo by Tony Weaver Jr (illustrated by Jes & Cindy Wibowo) Some books knock politely.Some books kick the door in wearing high tops and a cape stitched from awkward middle school memories. Weirdo is the second kind. When a recommendation trail starts with Jason Reynolds, I’m already…

Day 115a (of 2025/26) 3 news stories for the week: textbooks dead? Or reviving…? Bye bye paperbacks – will that impact (school) libraries? Bonus Share Quebec’s Bill 94 banning religious symbols expands to all people who interact with students (started with Principals and Teachers) had an exemption until the bill was tabled and if/when they…

Day 114 (of 2026/26)#pokémonday eve Slide Deck for our assembly linked at the bottom…  30 years! Three decades and arguably as popular as ever. The pocket monster card game I saw in university; heard colleagues tease kids about in my first years as a teacher has outlasted a lot of other fads to become more…

Day 113 (of 2025/26) Back to the “Worst Day of the Year” It’s that time again. Day 113. Somewhere near the end of February. The stretch between breaks. The calendar feels long. The light is returning, but energy isn’t quite. And if you’ve been in schools long enough, you can feel it before you can…

Day 112 (of 2026/26) #pinkshirtday eve Pink Shirt Day began in 2007 when two Grade 12 students organized their peers to wear pink after a Grade 9 boy was harassed for wearing a pink shirt. He wasn’t bullied randomly.He was targeted because pink was coded as “feminine.” That distinction matters. This wasn’t simply cruelty.It was…

Day 111 (of 2025/26) on growth plans Very happy with a step forward our district made… this year our growth plans were delayed a bit… I still have my draft PDF working copy,   …but we have also shifted to having our growth plan template focus on including a connection to the competencies of our…

Day 110b (of 2025/26) 3 news stories: research around ‘explosive behaviours’ shows something not talked about much; AI for fairer learning journeys…?  Bonus connected to contracts – interesting to see in New York some districts being able to push regarding class sizes to see the costs to get ratios to cap class sizes at 20…

Day 110a (of 2025/26) #BlackHistoryMonth book review – The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind by William Kamkwamba I first heard the name William Kamkwamba via a TEDtalk on his wind turbine. I had missed that he did a memoir that honestly feels like it would make a fabulous graphic novel…  I do appreciate at a…

Day 109 (of 2025/26) #tEChursdAI I am a fan of what AI is doing to schools (and with Learning) inspired by many Been reading a lot of thoughtful pieces. And when thinking about AI, I am influenced by wondering if AI, like androids, dream of electric sheep, but more likely AI remains a library book…

Day 108 (of 2025/26) math needs more cowbell! err – more literacy experiences… Love this relatively simple quote from Dr Crystal Watson (Pedagogies of Voice) EG – what about a rough draft of math… feedback…. Revised work counting as much as we value edited writings…  I know there are some (many) who still want to…