The pandemic showed us that education was broken. It also showed us how to fix it.

Jennifer Abrams and I vent about how good learning gets undermined by needs for immediate answers.

For years I have tried to impress on schools that they don’t need to fly in consultants for professional development, nor send staff to far off conferences.

Praise is a powerful thing. It has the potential to motivate, guide and support a student’s learning. But it can also derail it. When our praise is focused on outcomes and abilities, it contributes to the development of a Fixed Mindset.

Renee Rehfeldt defined the four strategies I list below to categorize the numerous PD offerings available to staff…

Pay attention to the “Elephants”, or Ineffective Meeting Attributes and Behaviours, that team members will overlook at the start of the year.

Most parents never expected they’d be in grade school again, and yet, here we are: the alphabet, the multiplication tables, the order of colors in a rainbow…