I received a text from an administrator part of the text said, “… I don’t know all the answers and don’t pretend to know… that’s just me….everyday. As you lead Kelly- you model this as well and that helps to prod our team in the right direction…” I thought about the number of times in… Read More I Gave Up Nodding
Creativity has been an elusive magic potion for me and my thoughts about learning for, well, ever. I’m literally giddy about the possibility of measuring, extending and challenging student growth in creativity as a competency in our classrooms. The immense generosity of one Grade 7/8 teacher has allowed me to explore it … in beta.… Read More Untitled
Andrea sent me an article last year, it was 17 pages long on the constructivist theory of learning. We simply cannot do it alone. The article was looooooong but it made me think about every student, every teacher, every classroom and every table I had the privilege of sitting around – listening and learning and… Read More Track Pants
I feel terrible that my husband is making a pile of long weekend plans with friends and at local events. In these last days of summer, I need quiet. I need to think and organize and stay at home on my deck and in my kitchen because this will boost my energy. I will gain… Read More Push and Pull
Andrea and I exchanged texts last week. They seemed a little frantic in nature. I was mostly frantic. I had been reading everything in site. If it passed by me on Twitter, if I was tagged, Facebook, Reuters, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, MacLean’s… all of it. Nothing settled me. The news baffled me and… Read More Thinking About the Thinking We’re Not Thinking About
I felt tired today. A bone weary, drag my feet, cannot think of one more thing kind of tired. I have considered that my age may be playing a factor. As I dragged my wagon filled with stuff from a thing back to my car and I walked and talked with a colleague, she offered… Read More Get Out of Your Own Way
Andrea and I cannot stop thinking about the question, “why should we learn?” This question comes on the heels of many many articles on engagement that whip by on my twitter feed on any given day and because I know many many educators who turn themselves inside out trying to connect with their students and… Read More Backseat Learning
My daughter has been in school for 20 years. She turns 24 in July. She will be off the dole this month for the first time in her life. I remember her first day of school; raincoat, rubber boots and a Spice Girls’ lunch box. What I did not know was that her teacher for… Read More Feels Like Home
A month ago, during two different, beautiful learning teams with educators, nestled deeply in the Indigenous Learning Model, we felt something change. It started as a quiet nudge and gained steam between our two brains. If we were going to deep dive into something then we needed a truly important voice. We asked Colinda Clyne… Read More Looking for Real Space Between…
We are two white women of privilege and settlers to this land. We are taking on the work of truth and reconciliation because we believe that it is time to decolonize our thoughts and actions. In conversation with of Colinda Clyne, an Anishinaabe Algonquin (Kitigan Zibi) guest to Mississauga territory, we are again telling a… Read More The Journey from Head to Heart
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