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Day 184 (of 2025/26)year end reflections on #summertimesdness  lack of routines; summer reading (and graphic novels) and summer maths (and history of maths) and summer social media (yep – I’ve got some good thinkings on that too) I know people love summer break… or want to love summer break… but I’m the nagging voice reminding…

Day 182 (of 2025/26) Three news stories I found curious: MAID delay further stigmatizes incisively illness; social media ban vs freedoms; Fathers Day & #MensMentalHealthMonth ; bonus #fathersday poem Typical – mental illness to be excluded from MAID (Canada’s admittedly controversial to many Medial Assistance In Dying) replicating the bias of many that if the…

Day 181 (of 2025/26) Graduation Night… Our Provincial Online Learning School has its own graduation event. Some of our students choose to attend the larger district ceremony held in the community recreation centre. Others don’t. The noise, the crowd, the traditions… for some learners, the traditional model wasn’t the pathway that led them to success.…

Day 180b (of 2025/26) Pride, Belonging, and a Rainbow Bowtie #PrideMonth https://apple.news/AKwLNcKN8Q7aLkt-MpLlLiQ A few weeks ago I posted a short video about Pride Month. Nothing particularly groundbreaking. No educational framework. No lengthy policy discussion. Just a simple idea: why all the hate? https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYdNYl8h5vZ/?igsh=OWw3c2Nvd2hidTMx To me, if a rainbow reminds one student that they are welcome,…

Day 180 a (of 2025/26)thinking about #nationalIndigenousPeoplesHistoryMonth and #IndigenousPeoplesDay One of the things I appreciate about National Indigenous Peoples Day is that it reminds me that learning isn’t something reserved for students. Adults are learners too. Every year I discover a new author, a new story, a new perspective, or a piece of local history…

Day 179 (of 2025/26) Nostalgia Burns… Eras come to an end – even CBC is ending it’s annual tradition of Hockey Night in Canada… not that many watch it on CBC since the HD channels on Sportsnet are a bit more crisp and clear… and a neat pivot from when CBC was ‘the’ broadcaster to…

Day 178 (of 2025/26) the math of graduation celebrations… I’m hearing a negative trend in a number of school districts – fewer kindergarten students than graduates… that math makes it tough for “big education” to feed the machine… We like to celebrate the graduation ceremonies that take place in high schools (and the ‘leaving ceremonies’…

Day 177 (of 2025/26) Three EdNews stories you may have missed: Canada going for a social media ban for those under 16 and energy drinks!; Online “Harms” Bill (thanks @IRPlawyer ); chatbots; ugh – handwriting as the apex in communicating learning? For many, might as well make it an interpretive dance as your ‘final’… I…

Day 176 (of 2025/26) #tEChursdaAI again, instead of banning… Pro-D and guided gradual release of responsibility… Sigh – I am observing too many rants against technology (specifically laptop type devices) on the education-social-media sphere… talking about the flop and fizzle out of ‘digital education revolutions’… and I am reflecting on the fact that many jurisdictions…