The most radical idea in education today isn’t about new curricula or technologies—it’s about fundamentally rethinking how we design schools to handle change itself. Instead of treating change as a disruption that needs to fit into the current system, schools need to be able to naturally adapt and respond to evolving needs. Beyond the Reform…
As an educational leader, it often feels like the job is impossible. Tasked with enacting change and while at the same to instructed to provide stability, each day is filled with competing expectations. Innovate but be sure to preserve tradition. Enact provincial mandates while honoring local values. Bring about immediate results but also build long-term…
There’s a bitter irony I continue to see happening in education today: the very efforts designed to improve schools often guarantee their own failure. New initiatives are launched with great fanfare, invest significant resources in training and implementation, and then watch as they fade away within a few years, replaced by the next wave of…
Teaching in the Age of Hustle Culture Teaching, Society, and Shifting Expectations Teaching has always trailed behind broader social and industrial trends. While sectors like business and healthcare often adapt quickly to innovation, education tends to shift slowly—bound by tradition, bureaucracy, and the political apparatus of change. Yet, despite the many common critiques, education has…
I’m learning that there is a limit to what you can do in a given time. I can’t do it all. I’ve watched friends around me slowly try to do more and more as the pressures of teaching during a pandemic continued to add to their list of things To Do. On top of that, they are feeling the pressure of a society that is, at this very moment, very divided and confused. Teachers, and many people, feel abandoned as they try to figure out how to best do their work while lacking personal safety and care. The mental and physical toll has been immense. In order to take care of myself, I have been working to develop habits that will ensure I can do my absolute best each day. I’m now at a point where it feels right to step back into this space.
Hope gives us the energy and desire to go forward, to learn, to reflect, to innovate. Hope is a candle in our darkness – guiding us as we continue forward. Every day is a PD day. #myPDtoday
If we are not willing to let go of ‘Who We Were’ we will not find out ‘Who We Could Be’ – we often fear that which brings change- that which pushes us to re-examine who we are. Every day is a PD day. #myPDtoday
In this time of uncertainty, it can be easy to lose our way. Taking time to pause & refocus is critical to helping us seek a new path on which to resume our journey. Every day is a PD day.
The journey has begun and we have set off on a new course, drawing the map as we go. We don’t know where it will take us. We must make bold decisions without rushing recklessly into the unknown. Every day is a PD day.
This is a time to pause as the decisions that are made at this time will have a ripple effect on education, children & families for years to come.