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Day 23 (of 2024/25) thank you for the music and thank you @whlgiants I’m not good at asking for funds. My Movember campaign is always about information. I hate sending home pledge forms for Terry Fox or Jump Rope For Heart… and I’m not good ad advocating for funds for a charitable group I work…

Day 22 (of 2024/25) Upcoming school rules? As we think about safety in and around schools, perhaps we ought to consider some of these international school rules in our local context: Helmets. All the time. I know, but I remember the grumbles on ski mountains and skating rinks that have shifted to acceptance (and some…

Day 21 (of 2024/25) Comic book corner thanks @rosehorowitch via @theatlantic Why comic books? A curious thread I’ll be chasing in no small part thanks to this article from The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true-anthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter or https://apple.news/AVNDbZdXnSLKRA0DRN8qkKQ Horowitch raises a few ponders about the evolution(?) of reading and readers  – sharing how students shared that at their public…

Day 20 (of 2024/25) fiction books Usually on the first of the month, I highlight an  education book that I have read… but last October I made my first ‘universal fiction’ recommendation and this year I am going to echo it… sort-of… Richard Osman (he who I highlighted with his Thursday Murder Club series) has…

Day 19 (of 2024/25) Truth and Reconciliation  Today we are having our assembly about Truth and Reconciliation. It’s not an officially ‘need’ yet in the BC school calendar, but my view is that if Remembrance Day needs to come with a gathering… so should the school day before Truth and Reconciliation.  And I love this…

Day 18 (of 2024/25) Gender wars – pronoun edition via @macleans & @simonlewson Day 18 (of 2024/25) Gender wars – pronoun edition via @macleans & @simonlewson https://apple.news/AQEa0ycidS3yrtuILxF_9MA https://macleans.ca/education/the-gender-war-in-the-classroom/ Part of my #orangeshirtweek has had me look for different systemic pieces of bias and discrimination that hide in plain sight. Pronouns. I recall my high school…

Day 17 (of 202/25) #orangeshirtday Wednesday (and always on my schools photo day…) I’ve always encouraged ‘orange shirt day’ to be the last Wednesday of September… in part because of the shifting of Truth and Reconciliation on September 30th – and because schools are closed that day… and of course I want to encourage that…

Day 16 (of 2024/25) a lit review? Or a ban by any other name… ? ‘review literature and textbooks in BC schools, removing content deemed inappropriate for students’.  https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/09/12/Unpacking-Rustad-Pledge-Review-BC-Textbooks/ Whoo – that can be a loaded question.  Much like “Can we read this book [eg Princess Boy] that my child picked out to the class?”…

Day 15 (of 2024/25) changing seasons -what fall may bring… The weather is a bit cooler -the morning walks are requiring a jacket and the sun is definitely not up as often as it feels it ought to be. Making it authentic that school is in full session – most schedules and staffing are now…

Day 14 (of 2024/25) Indigenous Focused Pro-D @bradleyrbaker aka Dr Tsnomot When Dr Brad Baker is keynoting… I’m sitting in the front row…  Resources from the day and pre-thinking about the day… Click to access PUBLICATION-TRG-for-Blended-or-Remote-Learning-Contexts-2020-12.pdf Some great links as we got ready for the day: Authentic First Peoples Resources (fnesc.ca)   I…