My daughter has a significant reading disability.  As a parent I found it difficult to imagine how hard school was for her since it had...

A colleague, Jason,  has been experimenting with teaching grade 9 applied and academic math in a combined class*.  It has been going well...

Which day of the year will you have all eyes on you?  The keenest students? The least amount of student misbehaviour?  The first day of...

I’ve been going to a lot of conferences lately, and watching a lot of video clips, about how leaders can influence change in teacher...

Change is cultural.  We’d like to think that school change was about adding a new program, or providing new resources, or even hiring the...

I have posted this, or something similar, at the end of June before, but I always think it is a good time to think about it.  Or at...

I recently gave a TEDx talk about this topic but for those of you who like to read…. Tradition and intuition play a big role in how we...

While we know that we are responsible for the 3Rs and other curriculum stuff, we also know that teachers have a role to play in shaping...

I have always said that assessment is one of the hardest things a teacher does, and I still think that.  But a conversation with one of...