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Day 32 (of 2025/26) 3 news stories from the week: inclusive education (thanks @thierck and @cbc ); Alberta’s teacher strike is resembling BCs past ones; Macleans takes a look at Ed too! 

1. Inclusive education is something I am a big fan of, but interesting to see it being brought up in a couple areas – BC Education author Tom Hierck had a timely “minute musing” https://x.com/thierck/status/1978939516993048597?s=46&t=1dUfyS3Gs8vfKZM2pkk0pQ  and Yukon parents aren’t happy:  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/parents-say-inclusive-education-in-the-yukon-is-lacking-they-want-the-next-government-to-change-that-9.6941138.  I regularly point out that people love great stories in education, and inclusion… but nobody likes to pay what it costs… whether in early childhood education or into post-secondary… education is a service where it is hard to see the financial benefits… costly – but worth it when done right!
2. Alberta government mandate https://teachers.ab.ca/news/premier-sets-out-education-mandate vs Red for Ed: https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/video/2025/10/16/thousands-rally-for-education-in-edmonton/ a challenge to not want to talk about class size and composition while there is a Supreme Court ruling out there (yep – a BC case) that any mediator is going to end up looking at for guidance… teacher contracts (like inclusive education) is costly when it is done right… 
3. As for me… did some work and learning with Metro Tech Educators (looking at the pros and cons of budgets, AI, evolutions of products from good to … less… eg Roblox – great building program, bad track record with predation – even my daughter recalls often being DM’d ‘wanna be my girlfriend’ but we talked a lot about this as a family); then a little visit back to UBC for walk down memory lane as remembrance for my old football coach passing away last week; then a bit of a positive end with a colleague gifting me some BC Lions tickets he couldn’t use… so I could take my father-in-law who loves CFL!  Looking forward to next week’s Pro-D at CUEBC where a number of educators I connected with this week… will be sharing even more then!