Values Exercise
Last night, C21 coaches we were taken through a Values Exercise with Garth Nichols (@gnichols) and Graham Vogt (@gvogt):
“You are...
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The best year of my life. My connection to my wife, my kids, friends, colleagues, students, our community, and...
Read More »Building a Student-Centric Well-being Resource Collection
What question guided your inquiry and action plan? (HMW?)
How Might we… move towards building a collection of resources for...
Read More »Reinventing the Rubrics in Primary Art
A recent goal in our Curriculum Meetings has been unit planning and creating rubrics within these units. It's been a...
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Book Review: Calm in the Chaos (Danny Bauer, et al.)
I have been deep-diving into Stoicism these past two years through the books and podcast of Ryan Halliday (aka: The...
Read More »Why Courage?
On the first day of my Bachelor of Education Program, Dr. Deborah Berrill walked onto the stage of the Wenjack...
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Book Review: Lead it Like Lasso [Stockman & Coniglio]
The hit-series, Ted Lasso, has captured the hearts and minds of many since it premiered in 2020. Since then, many...
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Urgent vs Important - Reflections on the return to school
Question 1: During the first face to face we used the language of Urgent vs Important to help frame our...
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Through the second face to face meeting, I was able to change my perspective on the question I was pondering....
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Urgent vs Important - Reflections on the return to school
This is my second year in the Primary Arts Specialist teacher role and as I get settled into the school...
Read More »How Might We - Teacher Professional Development
This year, in my role as MYP coordinator, I've been considering how to support our teachers in developing greater confidence...
Read More »Launch Posters as Graphic Organizers
After the students built their junk rockets, we thought we would try a poster as they did well with their...
Read More »Rocketships and Space Stories
In January we started our Space unit. We learned about the planets in our solar system and parts of a...
Read More »HMW Scaffold for Student Support in Inquiry-Based learning?
When I arrived at Cohort 21, I had determined that I wanted to focus on “How might we effectively scaffold...
Read More »HMW: Fuse AI with quality feedback for report card comments.
How might we leverage AI technology and tools to analyze, interpret, and extract meaningful feedback and data from Edsby to...
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How might we...
How Might we... move towards building a collection of resources for students to reflect upon and self-regulate their well-being as...
Read More »HMW build student capacity for empathy through writers workshops?
Question 1: Your how might we question.
I’m interested in looking at how teachers can build student capacity for empathy through...
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How Might We...create more leadership opportunities for kindergarten students
After our first face to face meeting I was feeling a little...
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How might we develop financially literate students who gain a new respect for and resilience towards all matter's money?
After a...
Read More »Authentic Opportunities for Observation/Conversation
HOW MIGHT WE QUESTION: How might we leverage a relationship-based approach to create authentic opportunities for observation/conversation with students?
My thinking...
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How might we...
How might we create an intentional GSA program that is fully embraced by the larger school community?
With the holidays and...
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