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Monday, May 28, 2012

collaboration models

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C urrently, our school uses an altered weekly schedule to free up time for voluntary staff collaboration. We've taken about 40 minu...
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Email Blues

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An open letter to BC School District 57 teachers on self-reliant communication. Teachers in our school district have been having livel...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Candidate Statement

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Candidate Statement for PGDTA position of SD57 Pro-D Fund Administrator We face a challenging year ahead in which our professional auton...
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Sunday, April 01, 2012

Middle Earth 11: a rough course proposal

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Here's an idea about the Interplay of Language, Landscape, and Imagination that I've been thinking about lately. How about a Middl...
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Friday, March 30, 2012

Heritage PBL in Social Studies

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The Great (x3) Grandparents of one of my students; he found this photo online today. Spring is in the air, which means that it is ti...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Staff Meeting Blues

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As BC school administrators and teachers consider what will happen in the wake of Bill 22 and the better part of a year in "Phase 1...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Hunger Games Experiment

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My school's teacher-librarian and I were discussing the popularity of Hunger Games  by Suzanne Collins and came up with an idea to ge...
Sunday, March 11, 2012

Tsunami before and after

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source: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/ The Big Picture has posted another amazing photo essay -- before and after pictures from the J...
Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Bill 22 Q&A

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Some interesting debate occurs among union members, some of it subject to my response. I’m posting a selection of my responses here as the...
Monday, March 05, 2012

Bill 22 blues

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I'm still trying to sort out exactly what Bill 22 means to me as a teacher, and with how it will impact my teaching practice and my p...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012

lost in translation

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My 7-yr-old daughter is in French Immersion, and is finally getting around to sorting out the difference between written English and Frenc...
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Friday, February 17, 2012

self portraits

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my 4-yr old son and one of his many self-portrait studies on the iPad
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Twitter Blues

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On Friday, I had an opportunity to speak to the whole grad class at our school about their use of twitter, and I thought it would be appro...
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Thursday, February 09, 2012

Enter QR Codes

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These have been around for a while, but have also found their way into education over the last year as a way to communicate content or l...