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Day 156 (of 2025/26) Highlighting Comic Con: Toby Price & Tytus the Monkey Some traditions just become part of the story. When we first launched our school Comic Con two years ago, we honestly weren’t sure what it would become. Would students come? Would they connect with creators? Would they see themselves as storytellers too?…

Day 155 (of 2025/26) Highlighting Comic Con: Jay Odjick & KC Oster Superheroes. For many people, that is still the first mental panel that flips open when someone says “comic books.” Capes. Masks. Giant sound effects exploding across the page like fireworks in a blender. 💥 And honestly? There is a reason those stories endure. Superheroes are rarely…

Day 154 (of 2025/26) Highlighting Comic Con – Emilia Strilchuk – Be Yourself! Oh, Not Like That!! @theartofemilia  Love the title. I saw it on display while at TCAF (Toronto Comic Art Festival) a year ago and kept coming back to it… trying to time it so that I could meat the artist/author (one of…

Day 153 (of 2025/26) 3 education news stories you may have missed… and a #MothersDay poem! sports days; screen time; grade inflation and a bonus on bans not being cure-alls #MothersDay  Here’s to the moms.The birth moms.The step moms.The moms who adopt, formally or otherwise.The mothers-in-law.The sisters who stepped in.The best friends and old friends…

Day 152 (of 2025/26) a #tEChursdAI check in on Bans Canada is weighing a social media ban for under-16s. Here is how that experiment is playing out in the first country to try it — Toronto Star As much of an advocate and believer I am in #edtech, I don’t disagree with scaffolded guided, gradual…

Day 151 (of 2025/26) The benefits of D&DThanks to CBC News and Simon Little for this great article on “goblin therapy” Loved this article on the therapeutic benefits of Dungeons & Dragons and neurodivergent learners: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dungeons-and-dragons-kids-therapy-neurodivergence-9.7178879 I loved playing D&D growing up. I’m less certain I love being the Dungeon Master. But don’t tell my…

Day 150 (of 2025/246) my annual ‘anxiety rant’ with an update to include AI (in italicized bold) – social media additions in italics This is my annual rant on anxiety. I have worked with ‘these’ learners for years and even have one at home! It’s not ever easy, but I have had many successes. It’s…

Day 149 (of 2025/26) May the Fourth Be With You May the Fourth has become one of those delightfully odd school-day phenomena: once a quiet wink between a few nerdy educators, now a full hyperspace jump into classrooms everywhere. It is also, unexpectedly, a pretty useful metaphor for learning. One of the persistent myths in…

Day 148b (of 2025/26) in space nobody can hear you… – a wordless graphic novel: Viewfinder by D.U. Chung and Salwa Majoka ( @dudechung & @salwa.majoka ) I’ve been loving hearing reactions to wordless graphic novels. We’ll actually be exploring this in a session at our upcoming Comic Con. My librarian daughter highly recommended Viewfinder…

Day 148a (of 2025/26) Dear Teachers – a share on James Patterson love letter to teachers (thank you “co”-author Matt Eversmann Huh. Nobody’s story highlighted finding the right textbook and curating the perfect exam that worked for all learners to be successful because of the single set of explicit instructions… I kid. I appreciated Pattersons…