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Day 140 (of 2024/25) #autismmonth share! The complexity of “time” Today’s reminders come from some reflecting I did during our Pro-D Day.  Wait Time. Don’t rush an answer… remember that with any question, the brain can get very busy. Very. It’s why I will continue to share this photo my son created – thousands of…

Day x (of 2024/25) #booktok Weirdo by Tony Weaver Jr, illustrated by Jes & Cindy Wibowo Only thing better than a recommendation by Jason Reynolds to start a book is the gamification of school by referencing that “the first day of school is a tutorial level before you get to the game”… and the examples…

Day 138 (of 2024/25) Pro-D Day! Autistic – Affirming Communication Supports Great share about how we ‘used to’ do things that we now do better… and the value of listening to our inside voice about what feels righter and wronger… neuro knowledge keeps getting deeper (and we have to be comfortable trying something new…) Used…

Day 137 (of 2024/25) taking a peek over the Rockies… #manitobaed I like seeing what other jurisdictions are up to – and a duo of news sources nicely curated for me via Apple News got my interest – from Manitoba (Honourable Wab Kinew’s government is doing some neat things…!) Universal literacy screening… https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/04/11/manitoba-adopts-universal-literacy-screening – money…

Day 136 (of 2024/25) #jackierobinsonday I played and coached football. I live and cringe with my hockey keeper league. But baseball was my first love. I can recall my first Canucks game. The first BC Lions and Seahawks games – but as good as the Kingdome was for the ‘hawks… nothing beats my memory of…

Lots of AI in my algorithms lately – from book reading (Burnout from Humans – great free book about collaborating mindsets) and a bit of thinking from some other books and movies (so nice to have another season of Black Mirror to binge as it always does share some fun twisty looks at techtopias –…

Day 134 (of 2024/25) An Hour of Animation From time to time I like it when I can do a ‘classroom takeover’ and push off my pvp duties to later in the day. Also nice to provide support to our teacher team in an area a student advocated for… wanting to do some animation… so…

Day 133 (of 2024/25) A student by any other name would still smell of axe Well, Florida went and done it: fired a teacher because of name useage… https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-high-school-teacher-loses-150102267.html And I’ll be honest – I’m of two minds on this one. I’m not a fan of using deadnames, but I am also in favour of using…

Day 132 (of 2024/25) Reflecting on Emergency Drills in a campus that does not have attendance…  We probably don’t do drills enough… though I can also argue that we likely do them too often… familiarity can bring confidence/competence, but also a desensitivity to what’s real, and what’s practice (which is why many times I have…

Day 131 (of 2024/25) new head coaches and superintendents… Pete Carroll has a number of lessons that he has shared over the decades he has been coaching young men.  A favourite on my wall (now mis-filed during a move) was: Tell me and I’ll know Show me and I’ll see Coach me and I’ll do…