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Day 97 (of 2024/25) snow ❄️ day The timing of the announcement of a snow day was later than I expected… there was a good amount of snow on the ground and others in our region had taken the ‘better safe than sorry’ call to close their district We are in a unique environment. We…

I love Will’s views on education – was greatly inspired by an earlier book of his, Why School? and the look at how a platform like Minecraft might be better at engaging, motivating and encouraging learning than most classrooms and schools. And to end 2024, he came up with A Manifesto on “Confronting Education In…

Day 95 (of 2024/25) closing #literacyweek with a thought on banned books – subtle and overt Except for ebooks, no library can hold copies of every book ever written… and even as to “what’s best” – the shelves will vary. I went through a phase of reading every Guinness collection. Every Choose Your Own Adventure.…

Day 94 (of 2924/25) #tEChursday the depletion of online reading tools are why reading scores are dropping… Not going to go deep into screen vs paper tablets. For me, if it has you reading text, it’s awesome. If you’re listening to a book… well – at least there are some similar skills going on in…

I have some thoughts when I see articles panicking about reading test scores: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/reading-test-scores-american-students-5fb78d4e I chuckle a bit because when a new program is declared ‘the one way’, it doesn’t always end up doing what we hope it will do… and snicker with “They also caution that the reading results don’t speak to the effectiveness…

Day 92 (of 2024/25) #literacyweek putting more of what we do/know about reading and writing into the numbers “We” have done so well over the past decades in literature finding a balance (knowing that word itself is triggering) student reading between independent rates and ‘age defined standards’ that do not always factor in schema or…

Day 91 (of 2024/25) the naming of literacy Thank you (and sorry) T.S. Eliot – hate the film or musical if you must… I love it and Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats that inspired… Cats ~ but are we in alignment that there is not really agreement in what ‘being literate’ means now that…

I am a little excited to do some sharing about our online/asynchronous connections we are doing for this years Literacy Week! As a POLS (Provincial Online Learning School) we have to sometimes do things a bit different(iated). And one of my personal goals this year has been around communication in the form of reaching out…

Day 89 (of 2024/25) #tEChursday look at two updates to the cell phone ban For me, a key component of screen use remains knowing if they are being used for consuming or creating content/information/examples of learning in ways that cannot be done without a screen… thus even I am not universally 24/7/365 screens… (but I’m…

Day 88 (of 2024/25) originally titled: more reasons why I can be an admin pain as an admin…. During a meeting this week – we relooked at our district procedure on food… which reminded me about one item brought up awhile back was some parents not wanting videos on while kids were eating. I am…