Everything happens for a reason, right? I loved how my Uber driver reminded me of this when he was bringing my best friend Nycol Didcote and me back to the airport last week. I’m not an Uber expert, we actually don’t even have Uber where […]
2 years! It’s been TWO years since École Sage Creek School was getting ready to open its doors! I still remember it like it was yesterday. There was much talk going on about how to begin building our school culture before the first day of […]
On Friday morning, I was laying in bed sick, and came across the article ‘Self-care’ is not enough to fix how much moms are burnt out by Diana Spalding. Although I strongly encourage you to read the whole post which literally stopped me dead in […]
Blogging has become one of my passions over the last couple of years, and although I am certainly far from being an expert (who’s an expert anyway?), I definitely have some experience from both writing posts and reading a bunch of them. This post will […]
Over two years ago, I wrote about the importance of social emotional learning and empathy, and also shared a follow up lesson where my students had created calm down strategies in order to help themselves self-regulate. Unfortunately, as I transferred my blog over and bought […]
Anyone who’s ever been to an Ignite knows how fast, furious, and totally inspiring they can be. I’ve been lucky enough to attend several, and earlier this year, I took a leap of faith and accepted to present at our divisional Ignite evening: LRSD Ignite. […]
Last year was the first year that École Sage Creek School was open, and with that, we had our first ever Exhibition Evening, which you can read about here. Last year’s evening was a huge success and as we began planning for this year’s, I […]
About a month ago, George Couros sent me a DM on Twitter asking me if I’d be interested in helping to lead a second round of an Instagram Book Study based on his book, The Innovator’s Mindset. Although his message kind of caught me off […]
Yesterday, 2000 educators from the St. James-Assiniboia School Division and the Louis Riel School Division got to spend an incredible day of learning together, facilitated by James Nottingham. I didn’t know a whole lot about James before the day began, other than the fact that […]
Sometimes, my best ideas come to me at the last minute, and they often come to me when I least expect them… in the shower, while driving, or folding laundry. They usually stem from something I heard, read, or saw, and with my life being […]