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Day 118 (of 2025/26) Reading Goals? Are you factoring in the way the brain processes text? Some thoughts for reading improvement… What are your reading goals? Are they specific enough – or are they hoping that more of the same will work out… Science of Reading has some great strategies for explicit teaching, but while…

Day 117 (of 2025/26) finally… only one more clock change in our province! BC Government finally made a move on its own… after years (and years) of saying we were ready when our neighbours were (specifically Alberta and washington), we are going on our own – a final changing of the clock and then we…

Day 116 (of 2025/26) Book it to Brooks – recommended Young Adult reads The reading challenge is for students in grade 6/7-ish to read before they go into grade 8 in the in-person school in our district. While we are the online school, we strongly believe in the value of reading and likewise have the…

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…