The Reciprocal Teacher

Place-based Literacy: Grounding Reading in Place

It was my last year of high school and the final assignment for my history course was to write and present a research paper on a conflict in my Modern Western Civilization course. I chose “The Irish Conflict” from a list of 20 and began my…

Voice, Choice & Explicit Literacy Instruction in the Secondary English Classroom

Chat GPT — Planning for the Right Target

A Battle for Process Over Product in the Age of Chatbots

For Christmas, we tried to pare things down. Our kids each got to request one gift from Santa and we supplemented with a board game — for my son, an 8yo strategist, chess…

When you give a kid a sentence, they might just change the world.

The Power of Natalie Wexler’s…

An Embodied Lesson in Flight

The rink is smooth as glass and we are the only ones there. I station myself beside our youngest, who is struggling to keep herself upright, and begin coaching her to move forward.

What improv has taught me about instructional coaching

I was a awkward 14 year-old who wanted to be a part of something, that at *our* school, was as highly revered as a championship-winning…

Student-Centered Teaching as Radical Compassion & Collaboration

We had been home for a week when she started wiping her toothbrush compulsively and would not let me get close to her because she didn’t want me to “breathe on her.”

Learning from Each Other — Destreaming Across Ontario: Waterloo District School Board

Fostering Thinking Teachers in the Time of COVID