High School Administrator
Vernon, British Columbia
Joined October 2016
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PaTTAN conducted a book study of Structured Literacy Interventions, by Louise Spear-Swerling and esteemed chapter authors. Each chapter's author (s) presentation was recorded on this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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Many professional learning initiatives
follow this course of action:
➡️ Let’s teach teachers something;
➡️ Let’s hope they use it; and
➡️ Let’s hope it impacts students.
❌ This isn’t terribly effective.
✅ Guskey’s backward planning model for PL offers an alternative.
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“If you think the world is selfish and rotten, go to the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer overlooking Omaha Beach. See what one group of men did for another on D-Day, June 6th, 1944.” — Andy Rooney
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Inspired by a conversation with high school students about life after high school, I contemplate the idea of a new elective course - Adulting 101: Real Skills for Real Life. abbyschools.ca/blog/beyond-c… #BCEd #AbbySchools What would you include in the course?
Digital literacy and the use of AI in education: supports for British Columbia schools - Province of British Columbia www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/e…
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How high can you hear?
Test your ears: t.ted.com/E16SK0Y
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New gr 8 #PBL project Food for Futures. Inspired by @kate_grillo & Amanda Logan’s article in the Special issue #archaeology for Education link.springer.com/article/10… @SpringerAnthro
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Project Based Learning: 3 Types of Direct Instruction #RealPBL
"Nurturing students’ curiosities supersedes covering the curriculum."
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Cordial invite to join @mccainm and me live this coming Thursday night NOV 9 from 9P - 10P Eastern! Open to all teachers. No pre-registration required. 👇
Live URL: youtube.com/live/Fgturm1No2U… @pgliljedahl @thinkingclssrms #MTBoS #ITeachMath
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BC's new K-12 Learning Pathways are now posted on the Ministry's curriculum website. This includes the re-imagined literacy and numeracy performance standards, now called Learning Progressions. curriculum.gov.bc.ca/learnin… #sd38learn #bcedchat #numeracy
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Students overjoyed to be out of the Smokey skies and into the land of the living skies. @OKLearns @FultonSecondary
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A big thank you to @OKLearns for their generous support towards Fulton’s Trans Canada Trek. Stay tuned for more adventures to come. @FultonSecondary
@alangee64alan – at Kamloops, British Columbia
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Your middle school child is the most amazing person | CNN cnn.com/2023/02/17/health/mi…
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Seven #courageous youth sharing their #voice around assessment and learning with our Advisory Group for Provincial Assessment. We heard that mastery, creativity and identity are critically important. #abbyschools @shanesafir @LeytonSchnell @The_DLDozen @JohnMWat1
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Big announcement— @Yale's FREE new happiness course for teenagers is finally here! The Science of Well-being for Teens is a 6-wk course on @coursera designed to give teens science-based strategies for reducing stress/feeling happier. Please RT & share: coursera.org/learn/the-scien…
