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I’ve been reading Mindset by Carol Dweck lately. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, it’s a (really fascinating) nonfiction book about how the way we think about our potential affects our ability willingness to learn. Dweck posits… Continue Reading →
(Copied from my class blog here.) There’s been a lot of talk over the past few years about the flipped classroom, where the lessons are done at home and the work done in class instead of the other way around…. Continue Reading →
“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 →
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 →
We’ve started genius hour again this year. It was a much slower start this year – and although I believe it had to doing with the strike, I think it had less to doing with being off in September and… Continue Reading →
One of the things that most often gets lost in school is the passion for learning the things that you want to learn. Many adults are lifelong learners – I am! – but when we are finished with school, our… Continue Reading →
Generally I stay out of the comments of news articles. I have enough stress right now trying to figure out how I am going to plan my lessons, help my students, assess their learning and write their report cards in… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
Yesterday I had the privilege of attending @TEDxSFU‘s annual conference. This year the theme was #MakeItYours. It was a TED event, so I think it goes without saying that the speakers were incredible and the learning intense. Equally amazing was… Continue Reading →
