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Day 29 (of 2024/25) Learning Leadership session: M&M Icebreaker & spirals Check in based on M&M candies! Red = something about yesterday; Orange = something you do well; Yellow = something about your childhood Blue = something you learned last week Brown = something you can’t live without Green – something you watch or listen…

Day 28 (of 2024/25) on Canadian Thanksgiving And Thanksgiving was a Canadian thing before the United States adopted the similar celebration.  But… as systemic discrimination hides in plain sight, we ought to be aware of: So we can be thankful for where we are and what the future has in store for us, but we…

Day 27 (of 2024/25) #WorldMentalHealthDay thanks to @heylandsberg for the reminder of #sicknotweak @sicknotweak  World Mental Health Day on October 10 aims to raise awareness and spotlight the importance of mental health education on a global level. The Ministry of Education and Child Care’s Mental Health in Schools Strategy has resources available to support the…

Day 26 (of 2024/25) school playgrounds… perspective plus climates… Our K-12+ school is predominantly an online learning school that supports home based learners with in person learning opportunities… so that means we don’t have a few things. No library and no playground. We are playing around with the library by exploring a comic book/graphic novel…

Day 25 (of 2024/25) @TheSpaceGal reignites Emily’s Science Lab I love following the adventures of “The Space Gal” aka Emily Calandrelli on the social medias… can’t wait to see her shares from space – yep, gets to be an astronaut! She recently she turned her experiments from Emilys Wonder Lab (10 episodes on Netflix) to…

Day 24 (of 2024/25) Comic Book Library Share: Uncle $crooge – my favourite titles in my collection – hopefully a favourite in our school library! Thanks @jasonaaron and @theatlantic and @rosehorowitch Comic books are important portals into building rigour into reading… a recent Atlantic article https://apple.news/AVNDbZdXnSLKRA0DRN8qkKQ complained about the lack of ‘big books’ being read…

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…