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Day 101 (of 2025/26) 3 news stories for this week: gifted learning; dresscode again!; math needs/wants…; bonus around considerations about what does graduation ‘guarantee’?   Bonus – where are the jobs we are saying our graduates will get following their completion of courses decided for them? https://apple.news/AHwbilmBuRKCR5fWAkhGmKA  average of 123 applicants for each internship available…

Day 101a (of 2025/26) #blackhistorymonth book share: The Crossover by @kwameAlexander I know some teachers worry that verse novels don’t demand sustained attention… or enough rigorous reading (Which usually tells me they haven’t read much Milton.) But the verse here isn’t decorative. It moves like basketball. Short passes. Hard beats. Momentum. Even if not in…

Day 99 (of 2025/26) First world problems: paper mache edition #gsplayday2026 Heard a great complaint about the quality of newspaper today – clay based vs pulp (being in a town that used to have a pulp mill…)  Apparently it makes a difference in the craftiness for the arts… it also led to some shock when…

Day 98 (of 2025/26) #gsplayday eve! @gsplayday Global School Play Day at https://globalschoolplayday.com/ #GSPD2026 Ahhh feels like not that long ago that some asynchronous conversations with some smarter educators than me were isolating on a key factor that Haidt seemed to not focus too much time on while blaming screens as the paramount reason for…

Day 97 (of 2025/26) Book Suggestion – Learning as If LIfe Depended on It – Olli-Pekka Heinonen (as encouraged to read by @WillRichardson Olli-Pekka Heinonen was the Finnish minister of Education at a time when all eyes started to notice what was going on in Nordic nations. Here he reflects on how we can ensure future…

Day 96 (of 2025/26) news stories from #literacyweek: getting ready for kindy! Basic wage = u/dystopia; no more suspensions; and best of all:#JusticeForJediPadMaster  Highlight feature: I did a reading of “I Need A New Butt” to wind up #literacyweek because of the great news that the superior court has found in favour of Assistant Principal…

Day 95 (of 2025/26) #gamification of #literacyweek : communication & thinking via @taskmaster @taskmastereducation  Sampler: PowerPoint to play with based on Literacy Week: Taskmaster Literacy Week.pptx Here’s some of the rationale… TaskMaster is a fun gameshow – a panel of comedians taking on tasks…. And so well crafted that it hasn’t really changed all that…

Day 94 (of 2025/26) #literacyweek unit proposal: role playing games & video games  Okay – todays focus was on role playing games with a ‘sample dungeon’ being run and offered for first time families to ‘check it out’ – youtube share here: But the whole ‘game as literacy’ concept has really been intriguing me. In…

Day 93 (of 2025/26) #literacyweek unit proposal: comic books and our new weekly feature: a cartoonist club! Pretty straight forward – more and more comics (often identified as ‘graphic novels’) are going mainstream as legitimate sources of reading. To the chagrin of some – to the relief of many of us… comics matter. Today’s Literacy…

Day 92 (of 2025/26) #literacyweek classics – readin’ n writin’ vs new medias of social media as poetry & YouTube as prose This week we are highlighting some of the varied ways to take on literacy week. I like to say you can put the librarian into the principal chair, but because you can’t spell…