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Day 120 b (of 2025/26) a book suggestion: Persepolis  Better commentary from my daughter: https://www.wpl.ca/blog/woman-life-freedom/ If you’ve read it, you know why I’m promoting this book right now – if you haven’t, it gives a first person experience of Iran and its changes back in the 1970 revolution… some people want it banned because it…

Day 120a (of 2025/26) 3 news stories for the week: BC Time Change – oh, wait – already blogged on this one! I do love how already there is nostalgia for the ‘good parts’ of the time change.. I’m already dreading monday knowing my body is not going to have adjusted with ‘spring’-ing forward an…

Day 119 (of 2025/26) AI – cons and pros… #tEChursdAI thanks @YongZhao Really liked this share from Yong Zhao (big fan!) and how eerily closely he has aligned some thinking to that of Will Richardson in some sessions I have been attending… for me, a key takeaway is that there are some uncomfortable parts we…

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? Ontario wonder  https://apple.news/A8vXXZ_SQRLSpr7IVbDfc6Q but also Sweden restoring some balance with some pdf printouts err textbooks returning….      And US op/ed: https://apple.news/AbjHH06cNTYShIcX3HbvOPA Paperbacks are being phased out – I know those were…

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…