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Day 97 (of 2025/26) Book Suggestion – Learning as If LIfe Depended on It – Olli-Pekka Heinonen (as encouraged to read by @WillRichardson Olli-Pekka Heinonen was the Finnish minister of Education at a time when all eyes started to notice what was going on in Nordic nations. Here he reflects on how we can ensure future…

Day 96 (of 2025/26) news stories from #literacyweek: getting ready for kindy! Basic wage = u/dystopia; no more suspensions; and best of all:#JusticeForJediPadMaster  Highlight feature: I did a reading of “I Need A New Butt” to wind up #literacyweek because of the great news that the superior court has found in favour of Assistant Principal…

Day 95 (of 2025/26) #gamification of #literacyweek : communication & thinking via @taskmaster @taskmastereducation  Sampler: PowerPoint to play with based on Literacy Week: Taskmaster Literacy Week.pptx Here’s some of the rationale… TaskMaster is a fun gameshow – a panel of comedians taking on tasks…. And so well crafted that it hasn’t really changed all that…

Day 94 (of 2025/26) #literacyweek unit proposal: role playing games & video games  Okay – todays focus was on role playing games with a ‘sample dungeon’ being run and offered for first time families to ‘check it out’ – youtube share here: But the whole ‘game as literacy’ concept has really been intriguing me. In…

Day 93 (of 2025/26) #literacyweek unit proposal: comic books and our new weekly feature: a cartoonist club! Pretty straight forward – more and more comics (often identified as ‘graphic novels’) are going mainstream as legitimate sources of reading. To the chagrin of some – to the relief of many of us… comics matter. Today’s Literacy…

Day 92 (of 2025/26) #literacyweek classics – readin’ n writin’ vs new medias of social media as poetry & YouTube as prose This week we are highlighting some of the varied ways to take on literacy week. I like to say you can put the librarian into the principal chair, but because you can’t spell…

Day 91 (of 2025/26) Three news stories for this third week back in school this calendar year! Looking at: regressions in youth; no jobs in the future; Canadian banning youth on socials… Bonus! BC Teachers contract negotiations resume next week! https://apple.news/AvbYxYweyR4-VU4CyQ9NY7A wonder if we can tie it into Literacy Week…?!?

Day 90 (of 2025/26) #tEChursdAI thought on nostalgia Nostalgia has opopped up on me a couple times recently.  One shoutout came out that we can’t principal in the ways we did to kick off the 21st century… Another was when the Prime Minister called out and said that “nostalgia is not a strategy” – not…

Day 89 (of 25/26) Considerations for School… first principles of learning for the 22nd century There’s been a couple times I’ve encouraged staff to shift thinking from the needs of the 21st century learner (thank you Tony Wagner) and instead consider what is needed for the 22nd century. Admittedly influenced by a peak ast some…

Day 88 (of 2025/26) next week is literacy week – and first Tuesday #comicclub I do chuckle a bit that we spend a week looking at literacy, but not always at the new emerging literacies… so let me share my own plans for our Provincial Online Learning School to have available to log in and…