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...
Bridging More Than the Digital Divide
Seeing more and more educators acknowledging that we are tooling up for what is actually emergency remote teaching and not online or...
Organizing Conversations to Build Capacity
In times of uncertainty, it can help to focus on what you can do. I had "organized" my homefront (which changes minute to minute with...
Play It Forward- The Backstory
Seeing the video of my TEDxKicthenerEd Talk posted on TED.com felt triumphant. The most obvious reason that it felt so epic was that I...
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,...
Making the Case to Face Selfward
This post was also published on Medium. So often, when looking at oneself, the prefixes “intro” or “in” are used, such as introspection...
Healthy Start 2020
This is the second year that I have facilitated the Healthy Start BOB project in my Grade 8 Homeroom class and the third year since its...
Presence is a Gift
I had always taught full time, so when I left my tenured job and started again from zero at the board, it was it was interesting to get...
