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Day 13 (of 2026/27) amplifying Dr Peter Gray’s look at ‘the anxious generation’ with a focus on Restoring Childhood Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety – Peter Gray Sadly, Haights’ book got all the earworms with the claim that the anxiety we see in youth is due to screens… …

Day 12 (of 2025/26) all the ‘crises of faith’ in education Okay… maybe just ‘many of them’… There’s a reading crisis… https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/18/singapore-paid-reading-scheme A math crisis… https://lnkd.in/p/dKH_STWv No writing crisis if we realize that LLMs create more readable paragraphs than 80% of humanity…  but I am arguing with people across social media who love cursive –…

Day 11 (of 2025/26) #AutumnEquinox – and changing timezones #PCT #westcoastbias Welcome to pacific coast time – a change some think is more worrisome than Y2K: https://globalnews.ca/news/12063600/bc-adopt-new-time-zone-code-permanent-year-round-daylight-time/ Watch your digital calendars: https://www.uvic.ca/systems/about/notices/bc-time-zone-change-may-affect-calendar-meetings.php Now it’s the right time for PSLs I may have already had one… Or two… The great salmon highway opens… though this year…

Day 10 (of 2026/27) AI still can’t fit Saskatchewan into a map of Canada to be coloured! – a Courageous Minority influenced blog Provocation: The question we must ask: AI reminds us that education’s mission is not to catch up with technology, but to rediscover what it means to learn. Reminder: Young Zhao is coordinating…

Day 9 (of 2026/27) Fridays are for…. Option 2: Amplifications – and @chrkennedy did a practically perfect piece of writing for #TerryFox recognition (many runs this weekend) So, thank you Chris. As superintendent of West Vancouver, your “Culture of Yes” is more than a blog sort, it’s an ethos that shares many positive messages and…

Day 8 (of 2026/27) another reason to add video games as a unit in language arts! #tEChursday It’s been long shared that playing Tetris after a traumatic incident can help the brain recover.  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01956-y Now more looks are showing that while screens may indeed be part of changing brains… That is not exclusively negative.  Nor…

Day 7 (of 2026/27) sigh – still takes on #inclusion mindsets #IStandWithEsquimalt Thank you to the staff of Esquimalt Secondary. Thank you to the staff of SD61. Cuz hate still happens… And apparently a fun little back-to-school video can still become a target when a Rainbow Flag happens to be visible on a classroom wall.…

Day 6 (of 2026/27) thoughts on reading – a workshop on ‘building better reading outcomes: the role of instruction’ by Dr Una Malcolm by Dyslexia Canada I’ve got some thoughts on reading lately – especially thinking of neurologies… Styles brains use Heck, is reading just a Fad that’s winding down?  Love to get someone from…

Day 5 (of 2025/26) annual look at dress codes #principaldresscode  I’m known for wearing ties. Always have. Started with occasionally breaking them out in university after a professor wistfully commented about ‘back in the day’… and even now I will occasionally see some people unpack their bias with comments about “educators in ties and collared…

Day 4 (of 2026/27) Fridays are for…. Option 1: News you may have missed, but have education connections: What exactly is the test measuring — and what changed around the people taking it?  I’ve had the test run with one of my cohorts…  It’s not a bad test… But it’s still a test being administered…