I am planning to teach an online “zoom” class. It feels like everything I know about teaching will work in this milieu and everything I...

When I am in a meeting (and I go to lots and lots of meetings) and there are challenges to solve, or the speaker is entertaining and has...

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...

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...

Failure is NOT an option.  I think that our collective vision would be a school in which that was true.  We all aspire to have classrooms...

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...

A group of teachers was talking the other day about the pros and cons of prep periods at the end of the day.  There was talk about having...

At our last staff meeting we were looking at some of John Hattie’s work from Visible Learning. Of course some of the rankings surprised...

This week I participated in a webinar hosted by a principal from Toronto, Emma Nichols (http://goo.gl/VtF6ET).  A number of times...

Today I had to really think about why we integrate technology so well into our program at our school as  I had a visitor who came to...

Have you ever been to an all day workshop where you sat in the same spot all day long?  When I have those kinds of days I feel tired and...

Sometimes I go to a workshop and the presenter hands out a piece of paper and then tells you to find a partner (or a group of 3) to...

A teacher said, “I just keep thinking that feedback is always me talking to the students about their work.”  As teachers, when we hear...

Believe it or not, grade one teachers do teach students when to use periods and capitals.  So do grade two teachers, grade three...

September is the time for diagnostic assessment.  It is good to know what your students already know and don’t.  But I wish the word...

It is good to stay current with the lingo.  The literature now refers the classroom environment as the “third teacher”.  Many teachers...

The latest buzz is collaboration.  If we can get our students to collaborate then both engagement and learning increases.  This is based...

The question came upabout how you get students on an IEP started in class.  You have given the assignment, you were clear in the...

I find the research around growth mindsets fascinating.  I catch myself praising students for intelligence now and switch it to effort....