Agency and Creativity- Giving Yourself Permission
Creating a classroom environment that promotes agency is something really important to me, but how do you get students or adults to start...
Creating Space for SEL and Wellness
When I received the email about ECOOCamp yesterday, I was surprised that both my presentations, BOBs: Sure Things in Unsure Times and The...
Connection as Currency
The phone call woke me from a deep sleep, the kind I experience most often when I am up North. I was at my brother and sister-in-law’s...
Inquiring Selfward
As I was watching the Nina Simone documentary on Netflix this weekend, it got me thinking about many different things. Surprisingly, one...
Questioning Experts More Than Expertise
Last week, I was so happy to be invited to Jilian Stambolich’s Vocal Music AQ course for York University. This was a wonderful virtual...
The Power of Creation
I was singing One Love by Bob Marley in my mind when I started writing this post, but I didn’t mean the reference with its religious...
Assessment in the Time of Emergency Remote Learning
I had been eagerly waiting insights into how I could use assessment as an opportunity to support and personalize learning, and it was...
Go Us!
It's been a surreal few weeks, and I am just amazed seeing so many colleagues and friends, as well as myself, persevering through steep...
A Rant on Connection and Autonomy During Emergency Remote Teaching
Like I tell my husband as a caveat before I vent, please don’t offer me solutions. I want to vent because I have many feelings that I’m...
Buddies- Rethinking Reading Buddies to Expand the Possibilities
Reading Buddies is cool, but it can be so much more. Over the last 22 years, I have facilitated many forms of Buddies: Recess Buddies,...
