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Library ladder

You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like? Two words to start. Library ladder. Next, natural light from two walls with windows. Floor to ceiling shelves that are large enough to fit my records as well as my books. Floor plugs for lamps so I can change the layout from time to time and for night reading. Comfortable seating that can double as a nap location and…

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How yam aye cre8ive

How are you creative? It starts by admitting it. It’s not one thing but the other. It’s paddling upstream when others are floating down. It’s choosing to write first and read later. It’s seeing things sideways and upside down, with only one eye and then the other and then with both of them closed. It’s by looking for the beauty and the lesson in everything and nothing. It’s from comparing…

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Yes but no

Are you a good judge of character? I’d like to think that I’m a good judge of character because I know it when I see it. However, my optimistic hope in humanity has also left me blind to bad actors on occasion. Positive 1st impressions don’t always last. Ask any HR pros and they will all have stories about the ones who knew all the right things to say, yet never live up to any of their own…

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Grocery store top 5+1

List your top 5 grocery store items. In no particular order; Coffee, fruit, vegetables, protein, and carbs. Types vary from meal to meal, but these 5 fill my shopping basket each time. +1 = coffee filters 😀

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Kaesong, Reykjavik, Mongu

What cities do you want to visit? In 2013, I had one of the best meals of my life in Kaesong DPRK. I would love to go back and enjoy it again. The people I met throughout that trip were kind and welcoming. Reykjavik has always been on my travel list, but would only be the jumping off point for tour of Iceland and its stunning natural geothermal wonders. Mongu, Zambia has been on my radar for…

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Boxes

Tell us one thing you hope people say about you. So spend so much time organizing things, events, and others into boxes. Compartmentalizing them to make sense of it all. I hope people say that they could not find a box for me.

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blanks

blankety blank blankers blanked banal bankers and banks blinded by blinkers and brinksmanship tinkers banishing the banned and damming the damned

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reporting for duty

It’s report card season in elementary schools, and after a solid 6+ weeks of community building, continual conversations, and careful curriculum curation I now submit progress reports for 26 very unique and interesting learners. Does this read familiar to what you may have done since our September start? There is nothing like having to attach what basically amounts to a label on someone after…

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fractions rv

Did you ever get the feeling that a lesson was going to explode before you were able to teach it? Did some sense of existential edu-dread occur at the realization you may be over your head with a certain subject, and now as a result it’s bringing back a past traumatic experience from when you were a student in the classroom? When I first started my teaching career, I used to feel this way about…

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some chat about ChatGPT

Hold on to you beverages #onted. Right now the socials and other mediums are buzzing about ChatGpt. There’s a lot out there and more being generated everyday. The interesting thing about all of the content is that all of it is still being generated by humans however as each day passes, much more of that content is being organized and reorganized as new content by artificially intelligent…

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An Interview with Will Gourley

An Interview with Will Gourley

Honoured to be interviewed by the inimatable Doug Peterson.

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This Week in Ontario Edublogs

Will Gourley was kind enough to join Stephen and me for Wednesday’s show. I think we could have talked all morning about various things inspired by the writing in these great blog posts. track and field Will Gourley – @WillGourley https://heartandart.ca/track-and-field/ As we try to do when we have a guest host, we pulled in […]This Week in Ontario Edublogs

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This Week in Ontario Edublogs

This Week in Ontario Edublogs

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Once you're a dad...

Once you’re a dad…

You will never not be a dad again. This states the obvious however what I am trying to say is that once you have been gifted with parenthood, your life becomes an epic journey in all directions away from yourself. While you are on that epic odyssey, you get the opportunity to witness the past, present, and future at the same time. I have been a dad for 25+ years, and the experience has been…

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Hanging

For those who are hanging… In…limbo By…a thread On …nothing but will Out …waiting to be seen With…digital friends Back…to watch what happens next Over…others you distrust From…a brittle limb Head…in sadness Around…waiting for things to change Together…setting plans to make things better Keep your grip. You are not at the end of your hope.

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PR Moves

Instant addiction print by @recycledpropaganda Before blasting us with another photo bomb, publicly repulsive stunt, or staged photo op. The people you forsake, by each posted misfake, want you to open your mind not your mouth. If not your mind, then how about your heart? You make mistakes that bind us because of your blindness. Because you see only the few whose money you’ve desired, And not…

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This Week in Ontario Edublogs

This Week in Ontario Edublogs