Two years in the making. I started this book two years ago, after doing some guest lecturing at Queen’s University. I had things to say and I kept running out of time. Then, conveniently,...
Read MoreMother - Maker - Educator Jack of All Trades has been used as a complement and a slur. I have chosen to own the phrase for my social media presence because I do believe “herein lies my strength”. I am a mother, a maker, and an educator. I practice all three, not always in that order but more or less in equal value and importance. Join me as I play and explore with all three. …try new things, fix stuff, get your hands dirty, read about everything and live life the most that you possibly can while still being as kind as possible – to people and to the world around you.
Book reviews from professional development books that have influenced my practice.
Two years in the making. I started this book two years ago, after doing some guest lecturing at Queen’s University. I had things to say and I kept running out of time. Then, conveniently, my son was playing in a summer basketball team that practiced in another city so I couldn’t go home between dropping […]
I am starting a PhD this year and have made it a goal to read one academic article each day. Mostly I fail at this goal but – it is good to have a goal. Even failure to read one a day but getting to it some days could be considered a success… more on […]
There are few assignments more predictably included in high school curriculum and few that strike more fear into the hearts of our neurodiverse students than the Research Assignment. Really, I don’t know if “fear” is the right word; perhaps resignation is better. The sense that “I am always asked to do this, rarely supported in […]
This semester I am teaching a learning skills course with a small group of learners who have very diverse reading levels. I would like to expose them to complex ideas around learning and mindset but I have to make sure that the text is accessible for all my readers. I did some investigation and practice […]
It’s done! I have uploaded my Masters Thesis. If you are curious you have three ways to check it out. I completed in a 3-minute thesis competition. I have youtubed it here if you have a short attention span/time. I also recorded a Grad Chat which is a 30-min summary – posted as a podcast […]
The 2022-2023 school year is about to begin. Actually not the most unsettling start up I’ve ever had – but then I have purposely put myself in lots of unsettling situations. That said, as I start my 21st year in teaching it doesn’t feel normal either. Maybe that’s okay, maybe “back to normal” isn’t what […]
You are better than Duolingo. I got this card from one of my Spanish students this year along with some end of year cookies. Perhaps the most honest and timely teacher gift I have ever received. Given the chaos of the last three years, this felt like the perfect way to close a “pandemic” chapter […]
I admit it, I don’t like to throw things away. Knowing the predisposition for hording in my family I have also had to adjust my purchasing habits and try not to buy too many things either. The second hand shops help – once I began to think of them as lending libraries rather than stores […]
My son has recently acquired a passion for basketball. He is practicing four or five hours a day – on his own at the park. He is a serial obsessionist. His goal today is to be an NBA star. What I can be thankful for is that he has the concept very clear – you […]
I was going through old pictures this morning to delete ones and I deleted this picture, then I undeleted it. It doesn’t look like much because it is a screen shot from a digitization of an old VCR tape. Holy pixel degradation Batman! However, this picture is a record (fuzzy as it is) of one […]
