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Meditation on 2025
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(3 minutes reading time) A few months ago, a group of raptors or scavengers were wheeling high above the backyards in my neighbourhood. They stayed there for a long time, drifting on updrafts of air, sometimes dipping lower. Those birds drew my eye and lifted my spirit. I imagined myself in flight with the wind…
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The Secret to Thriving Through a Big Change
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(Reading Time: 3 minutes) “You need a plan.” People shared this advice as I left a wonderful 35 year career and stepped into the unknown. I took it to heart because I know myself and my need for a purpose and routine. I often talk about the importance of habits and Gretchen Rubin’s quote: “Habits…
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The Two Row Wampum and Me
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(Reading Time: 5 minutes) “Clean up on aisle five!” I often heard this working alongside the Indigenous Education department. It was a humorous way to show that it might be necessary to help people understand how to approach Indigenous knowledge and topics. If it wasn’t done in a good way, with peace, friendship and respect…
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What Happens When You Learn New Stuff?
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Learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. Peter Drucker (Reading Time: 4 minutes) Work offers lots of opportunities to learn, right? We’re exposed to new tasks, new initiatives, or to new people to work with. It seems like a guarantee…
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What are Students Doing?
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Educators work hard. Really hard. Teachers, educational assistants, early childhood educators, principals, vice-principals, and superintendents spend countless hours to make a difference for students. We are good at planning and presenting. We go to professional learning sessions, participate actively and feel energized. We read inspiring books on education or leadership and make concrete changes to…
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Pay Attention!
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I listen regularly to a CBC podcast of the excellent Radio 1 show “Q” with host Jian Ghomeshi. On January 16, 2014, Jian explored the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). It was a fascinating conversation with both journalist Allan Schwartz about the huge increase in prescriptions for ADHD in the last few years and…