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#SurreysupportsPINK

Most people know that the now-international Pink Shirt Day campaign started in Canada – in Nova Scotia, to be precise, when a boy was bullied for wearing a pink shirt and David Shepherd and Travis Price brought 50 pink tank… Continue Reading →

Winter Festivities: Celebration Without Exclusion

The first year that my family stopped going to Van Dusen Botanical Garden’s Festival of Lights as a family, I was devastated. We had gone every year since I was a little girl, and it was one of my favourite… Continue Reading →

Privacy in the Smartphone Age

Recently, my principal came over the intercom to explain to students that they were not allowed to live-broadcast their school experiences – either in or out of class. It seemed like an obvious statement, something that shouldn’t need to be… Continue Reading →

At what point does discretion become concealment?

Last week a student used the word “faggot” in my class. I felt like I’d been punched. Whereas it would still have bothered me several years ago, I wouldn’t have had quite as visceral a reaction as I had last… Continue Reading →

DENapalooza: Paying it Forward

In a workshop on Digital Citizenship at today’s DENapalooza, Dean Shareski, the Community Manager for Discovery Education Canada talked about the three things that make a digital citizen (and pointed out that they really aren’t that different from the aspects… Continue Reading →

I teach, therefore I am

Who I am in a large part determines how I teach. Not necessarily what I teach – a lot of that has to doing with the curriculum prescribed by the Ministry of Education and another significant part to doing with… Continue Reading →

The Power of One

“An engaged teacher engages their students,” said Taylor Gunn of CIVIX Canada (@CIVIX_Cananda) to over a hundred BC educators from all grades and all over the province as he opened Democracy Bootcamp on February 26. As I looked around the… Continue Reading →

To be or not to be (on social media)

Social media has become the Great Evil for many adults who have or work with teenagers and pre-adolescents. It is ubiquitous, potentially dangerous and constantly changing. It can cause great problems for individuals and groups, and schools are ill-equipped to… Continue Reading →

Minister Fassbender: Teachers may do extra curriculars, but not any work outside the lockout hours (so when do I plan and mark?)

I spent most of today upset about the that informed teachers that we were going to be locked out of our workplace more than 45 minutes before or after the instructional time we have with students, and that we were… Continue Reading →

Connecting with Parents

For a teacher, one of the things that is key in determining the scholastic success of a child is making a connection with their life outside of school. That means getting to know the child, finding out what his or… Continue Reading →

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