Telling the West Van Story
This past week the Honourable George Abbott, B.C.’s Minister of Education, spent a day in our district. It was another great opportunity to share a slice of West Vancouver’s public education story, and...
View ArticleTrying New Things
Trying to do something new or different can be a real challenge sometimes. Last week I had the opportunity to teach a class to students at Gleneagles Elementary School and West Bay Elementary School,...
View ArticleDr. Shanker and Self Regulation – Continuing the Conversation
Two of my most popular posts have been about Dr. Stuart Shanker and his work; each post has received well over 10,000 views. To recap, the first post in November 2010 is here and the second one here...
View ArticleTEDxMania
The TED conferences have recently been in the local news with their announcement about the global conference moving to Vancouver and Whistler in 2014, but TEDxMania IS coming to West Vancouver this...
View ArticleScanning the District
Checking in on what our leaders are writing about gives a great sense of the current topics and issues percolating in our schools. In the age of encouraging our students to be public digital writers,...
View ArticleInside Stories
As regular readers know, I blog in West Vancouver as part of a rich community of teachers and administrators who are regularly sharing insights into their school, their profession and their work. The...
View ArticleThe Learning Commons Mindset
Students at West Bay Elementary School I walk into almost all of our schools in West Vancouver and very often the first thing people want to show me or talk to me about is the changes happening around...
View ArticleSomething That Brings All the Learning Together
You can call it a passion project, a portfolio, a capstone, a demonstration of learning – heck call it anything you want. More and more, as I see these type of expressions of student work at the end...
View ArticleWords to End the Year . . .
As the 2015-16 school year comes to a close I want to share the comments of my colleagues in West Vancouver who have been addressing their students moving on – both from elementary to high school and...
View ArticleStill Blogging After All These Years . . .
It was about six years ago they started. And here we are, as we are approaching the mid-point of the 2016-17 school year, and so many of our school leaders continue to share their thinking through...
View ArticleWhat Are We Writing About?
It is always worth checking in on what others around me in West Vancouver Schools have been writing about. I always find it interesting to look at the topics people have the passion to blog about....
View ArticleStudents Are Pretty Awesome
I wrote something earlier this week for our local school district audience highlighting the some of the community service I was seeing with our students. I will republish it here as although it is...
View Article10 Classes – Some Quick Takes
I do spend a lot of time in classrooms. What I have noticed in recent years, it is often the same classrooms in the same schools. And often it is just a really quick walk through as part of a tour....
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