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Day 20 (of 2026/27) October is also #womenshistorymonth Canada designated October as Women’s History Month in 1992 to coincide with Persons Day on October 18.  Persons Day is when women were legally considered “qualified persons” And could be appointed to elected roles And schools And careers Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Erene Parlby, and…

Day 19 (of 2026/27) #worldTeacherDay There’s lots of saying about teachers… From the negative: ‘those who can, do… those who can’t, teach… To the pensive: ‘how much do you make?’ – I make a difference… To the positive: ‘Teachers plant seeds of possibility, then get to watch them grow.’ To the hopeful: “Teachers plant trees…

Day 18 (of 2026/27) Fridays are for: Option 4 – Poetry I’ve been inspired by reading The Boundless Deep – a dive into the world and work of Alfred, Lord Tennyson – one of my favourite writers… I kinda wish this was available when I was studying the Victorian Poets on my way to a…

Day 17 (of 2025/26) #2slgbtqia+ history month  The time of month that gets some negative emails sent to me Aggressive social media posts wondering why I will be wearing rainbow bow ties Pride inclusion neck ties Reminding people that all are welcome at our school with the pride inclusion flag in the background . It…

Day 16 (of 2026/27) On Truth and Reconciliation  Reconciliation makes people uncomfortable We see it more and more  Especially on the social medias (So at least those under 16 are safe from such views 🙄) Whether it is findings of graves Or changing of names People got opinions Most of which show deep hatred Which…

Day 15 (of 2026/27) Curse that Cursive Heard outside my office – a student struggling with some of the notes written down for them by an assistant. It’s hard to read… tricky because your spelling seems different to what I am used to. That cursive script. So the Education Assistant sought an alternative… Scanned the…

Day 14 (of 2026/27) Fridays are for: Option 3: Learning (Pro-D Day) First off, I loved how our professional development day framed around BC Professional Standard 9 was rolled out earlier this week that we would all be bussed to where the day of learning was going to happen… brought up a lot of anxiety…

Day 13 (of 2026/27) amplifying Dr Peter Gray’s look at ‘the anxious generation’ with a focus on Restoring Childhood Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety – Peter Gray Sadly, Haights’ book got all the earworms with the claim that the anxiety we see in youth is due to screens… …

Day 12 (of 2025/26) all the ‘crises of faith’ in education Okay… maybe just ‘many of them’… There’s a reading crisis… https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/18/singapore-paid-reading-scheme A math crisis… https://lnkd.in/p/dKH_STWv No writing crisis if we realize that LLMs create more readable paragraphs than 80% of humanity…  but I am arguing with people across social media who love cursive –…

Day 11 (of 2025/26) #AutumnEquinox – and changing timezones #PCT #westcoastbias Welcome to pacific coast time – a change some think is more worrisome than Y2K: https://globalnews.ca/news/12063600/bc-adopt-new-time-zone-code-permanent-year-round-daylight-time/ Watch your digital calendars: https://www.uvic.ca/systems/about/notices/bc-time-zone-change-may-affect-calendar-meetings.php Now it’s the right time for PSLs I may have already had one… Or two… The great salmon highway opens… though this year…