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Day 45 (of 2025/26) Reading inventories … who sets the standards to which others are held to? Funny that I was thinking about the topic of reading as part of entering school and then Chris Kennedy helped provide some writing to help drive some direction: https://cultureofyes.ca/2025/11/04/beyond-the-score-can-ai-make-literacy-screeners-more-human/ My bias: as a librarian for much of my…

Day 44 (of 2025/26) another #movember where I will leave fundraising to others I am not good at getting funds – either as donations nor solicitations. It is why I prefer to focus on the messaging of good programs like Heart and Stroke Society’s Jump Rope For Heart, Terry Fox for Cancer etc – but…

Day 43 (of 2025/26) Book Recommendation in time for the holidays! Thank you @misterosman and @jasonaaron and @fantagraphics  I’ve got a few titles I want to promote – one for very selfish reasons… Traditional Novel/Great Gift I have long been reluctant to recommend reads for others (I’m one who reads Brave New World as a…

Day 42 (of 2025/26) the ultimate day to school, education and everything! (And a final share on hallows eve in schools) 42 – the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything according to Douglas Adams in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – but my biggest connection in re-re-reading it this year has been…

Day 41 (of 2025/26) no such thing as screen time…?!? https://apple.news/AAr-4JdAwTQG1caAiPQH6Yw Or https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/screen-time-television-internet/684659/ Fun reminder that pundits like Marshall McLuhan saw screens as a good thing: As such, he thought that screens would help usher in a new age, a “global village” in which multisensory media would connect people in small scale, ad hoc ways,…

Day 40 (of 2025/26) is it just me, or is time feeling… off? I was SO GLAD this morning when a teacher commented that it felt like a Thursday… because that is exactly how the day ‘felt’ to me as well… or is it just some of us who have a ‘feel’ for each day…

Day 39 (of 2025/26) Toons and Halloween…  Trick or Treat for Hallowe’en!  “Trick or Treat,” is the master cartoonist’s (Carl Barks) adaptation of the Donald Duck cartoon of the same name. It has appeared in a number of collections as well as it’s own featured roll in Dell comics Donald Duck serial…  The film opens…

Day 38 (of 2025/26) #Hallowe’ek – 3 Positives & 3 Negatives Hallowe’ek is another reminder of how systemic discrimination often hides in plain sight within our schools. We tend to dismiss its roots in organized religion, framing it instead as a secular celebration — “just kids gathering candy.” But let’s be honest… for decades, many…

Day 37a (of 2025/26) thank you @westvanschools for hosting @CUEBC This morning starts with a keynote by SFU’s Dr Greg Sutherland talking about Technology with Purpose –  Self-Location is a form of truth-telling which helps build … oops, first Microsoft error of the day…  Self location is a form of truth-telling, establishing Relational accountability and…

Day 365 (of 2025/26): #tEChursdAI looking at tomorrows @CUEBC lineup I love our provincial pro-d (professional development) day! A time for specialist organizations to show off and have educators show up to learn and share (and chat in the hallways…probably the best pro-d). A fabulous day. But some thoughts: A) not a day off. The…