Category: Education

On May 2, 2019 I sat in a packed auditorium at the Scotiabank Convention Centre in Niagara Falls, Ontario. I was sitting in the third row of Catherine Zeisner’s keynote, Class of 2030. She took to the stage armed with stories from her personal life, her life at school and…

This past September, coding became a part of our ministry mandated curriculum for grades one through eight. What I assumed would be a logical continuation of my already established coding program, this year has led me to some pretty big realizations and learning for a variety of reasons. For starters,…

As I do every day, I took my first-grade students outside for our daily outdoor play break. As they do every day, they wait for me to open the door and they run and scream like it’s the first breath of air they’ve gotten in their entire lives.  Like every…

My first week in kindergarten was one of the toughest weeks in my teaching career.  I had taught grade 1 the prior six years, so I didn’t think the move into kindergarten was going to be a huge jump. Dare I say, I actually thought it was going to be easy. …

A year for the books.  We are about to begin a school year like no other. I am preparing to bring in a whole bunch of little people in need of some kind of structure, routine, and a little bit of “normalcy” (in quotes because do we even know what…

Kindergarten is like babysitting. All they do is play all day. Kindergarten should be cancelled this year. If my kid was in kindergarten, I wouldn’t send them to school.  What’s the point? The list of things I’ve heard about Kindergarten could go on for days, but I’ll stop there.  My favourites are…

Leadership matters…we’ve all heard that before.  Maybe we’ve said it.  But what does it mean?  Why is it important? For anyone who follows me on social media, you know that I’ve spent the last six months editing books with Code Breaker Inc.  It’s been quite a ride.  I’ve met a huge amount of influential and…

I started writing Gracie this time last year. I sat in my backyard in July of 2019 and my phone pinged. It was the DM that would change my course of life moving forward.  A quick four message exchange was all it took. I stepped so far outside my comfort…

Monday, March 9th, 2020…the news was riddled with COVID19 stats about the global impact it was beginning to have.  Different countries were being affected and leaders from all over the world were beginning to take measures to stop the spread and protect their people.  Tuesday, March 10th, 2020…conversations happening at school…