Each week we look at a news story on education and make a few comments. This week’s commentary is about a post in The Province titled, “Education divide: While Canadians stress happiness for their children, Asians tend to focus on high achievement.” Here are a few clips summarizing the article: In a nutshell, Canadian parents put [...]
Have you ever heard the statement, “The Medium is the Message”? As an educator you probably have heard it and like me, kind of understood what it meant and kind of not. It is Marshall McLuhan’s famous line from Understanding Media. In a nutshell, it means that the form of the medium embeds itself in [...]
I like reiterating an analogy C.S. Lewis uses to illustrate the necessity of having a vision, a direction, a point to what you are doing. Our school is like a fleet of ships headed across the ocean. Each ship is an integral part of the fleet be they teacher, administrator, support services and has a [...]
A recent article in Education Week titled, “Is PD Behind Teacher Improvement? Maybe Not, Analysis Cautions,” questions the effectiveness of professional development in improving teaching practice and suggests it may not be money well spent. Of course money comes up because that seems to be our only metric these days in evaluating whether a practice [...]
I read a hilarious resume the other day where the guy who wrote it was applying for a marketing job and listed all the failures he experienced in his years of working as a creative marketer. It’s a funny read but what is more impressive is that he had a high number of responses from [...]
And so I ask you Neo, which will you choose? The blue pill takes you back to your bed and the reality you are comfortable with. Choose the red pill and I show you just how far down the rabbit hole goes. We want questions that blow our minds when we answer them. And by [...]
Be Curious! When you are curious…you engage. When students are curious…they engage. On the educational professional development circuit one often hears talk of problem solving. How do kids solve problems? Give them problems to solve and help them develop different ways to tackle a problem. Sounds good…if all you want are worker monkeys who wait [...]
