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Moving moving moving
My bags are packed and I’m ready to go…. kind of. I’m moving today, luckily we have this one day of calm between yesterday’s rainy,icy, windy (I couldn’t get out of my car at one point, the winds were keeping the doors shut!) day and tomorrow’s forecast of 25cms of snow! So I may be slightly absent for [...]
Black-focused public school in Toronto by 2009…What do you think?
Toronto trustees vote in favour of black-focused schools cbc.ca -Tuesday, January 29, 2008 “A proposal to create Canada’s first black-focused public school was approved by Toronto District School Board trustees Tuesday night. They have recommended the creation of an alternative school that features a curriculum and teaching environment oriented around black history and culture. Some parents have said they [...]
Request for techy feedback
Hi all I am moving in, oh dear, 6 5 days counting today. I have barely begun to pack. My procrastination technique of choice is doing research, generally about something that does not have to do with my major project at hand. So of course I decided to learn how to deal with CSS and have been researching that. [...]
Amen of the day on this US Martin Luther King jr Day
Jonathan Becker boldly reflects on LeaderTalk: However, what troubles me more is the mounting evidence that even where we have managed to create diverse/integrated schools, there is extensive  within-school segregation by race. For example, students of colour are disproportionately: overrepresented in special education; underrepresented in gifted and talented programs; underrepresented in the highest level academic tracks [...]
A day at the park…literally
At the end of November I met Marc Tison (in case your school is like ours and myspace is blocked, here’s somewhere else to go), a pretty well known skateboarder from Montreal, and we got to talking about one of my students whose dream is to be a sponsored skateboarder. In fact, at the beginning [...]
Amen of the day for 01/13
You must learn…just like I told you…You must learn. KRS One Here’s what’s appalling, to me. Every year we get 180 days to work with young people and every year we waste most of their time getting students ready for our past instead of getting them ready for their future. We focus on curriculum [...]
Changing Space
Photograph by Edna Vite “Mandalas are utilized in all cultures as transmitters of energy,” Vite says, explaining that they can transform negative energy into positive energy. According to Vite, people use mandalas to cleanse spaces of negative energy, as well as to meditate and to energize themselves. Last week Jose wrote: I stayed in my classroom [...]
Amen of the day
It’s been a long time coming, but I know a change is gonna come. Sam Cooke “Now let me say right off, I can’t do this by myself. I’ll need all the help I can get. I’ll need support from like minded people who know that changes at school need to be made so that [...]
Change…the 6-letter 4-letter word aka Wishes, Hopes, and Dreams the Remix
I closed my last post with this quote from the stunning Invincible: Metamorphosis, no better metaphor for this. here’s the link one more time for your listening pleasure. Go here to see credits. And post-post discussion (aka comments, I guess) is gravitating around the concept of discomfort and learning. I am propelled [...]
Wishes, Hopes, and Dreams
If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn – Charlie Parker Ok, it’s way about time I take a good hard look at my wishes, hopes, and dreams. How can I move towards a better future unless I define what I wish, hope, and dream for it? I know that I can be [...]