Leading From The HeartWhy is there such a love affair with interactive white boards? Soon after the PQ government was elected this fall, it announced a moratorium on the previous government’s plan to put an interactive white board in every classroom across the province. I say this is a good thing. IWBs are expensive and do very little … The obsession with interactive white boards
I just wrote a quick letter to our Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. He is, after all, the Prime Minister of Canada. So why are Canadians not holding him to task for his actions? “I have been reading about Chief Spence and the Idle No More movement with growing sadness. How can you not meet with … A quick letter to Harper. #IdleNoMore
I wrote about how much I like(d) using Pinterest just last week in Pinterest for Teaching. About how excited I was about its potential for sharing resources and even professional development, of a sorts. It’s so exciting, it’s almost addictive. And then 2 things happened, maybe 3. I had a conversation with some people at … to pin or not to pin…
Turning on the car yesterday morning and the first words I heard from CBC were Shafia. On the television, in the newspaper, on my Internet browser…Shafia, Shafia, Shafia. And honour killing. Afghans around the world were interviewed to comment on honour killing. Random people on the street felt their country’s values vindicated through the guilty … In the name of honour…not: Teachable takeaway from the Shafia verdict
When will the realization be made that it is not necessarily about different ways to teach different people? Umpteen years ago people felt that girls were getting a disservice so it was time to change how teachers taught girls. Now it is the boys who are getting shafted and it is time to change how … Response to ‘British Educators Explain Why Boys Fail’