Nature kindergarten, fifteen different high school class options, and the red ‘cheese whiz’ toast I made for Hazel this morning. Gimmicks...

Consumerism is not the means to happiness. Anytime I find myself lusting after a new vehicle, toy, or gimmick I recognize this clear sign...

It turns out that a magnetic dartboard which my daughters were not using ended up being the centrepiece of my classroom over the past six...

While learning about inheritance and heredity in Science 9, I often take close up images of student eye colour. It is amazing what the...

At lunch this week I was part of a team of teachers that won the intramural dodgeball tournament. The final match was against a group of...

I watched a ‘mousetrap powered car’ in my mechanics class leave the starting line so slowly that it appeared to be a failure. It took a...

As the end of the most challenging teaching semester of my career comes to a close, I am reflecting on all the lessons learned through...

Karina asked me if I had heard the rumour about a local high school student that requires a litter box at school because they identify as...

“But goodies, what is a ‘but goodie’?” I asked the cashier at the local pharmacy where Olive, Hazel, and I attempted to fill a Christmas...

Certain places have the ability to bring out the best in us. The people, energy, layout, lighting etc, all come together to make us...

I just spent the last ten minutes trying to stump the OpenAI chat bot, or more specifically seeking solutions to the most relevant...

One of my pilot heroes, Dick Ruttan, shared a concept that has stuck with me for life, the ‘task saturation box’. As humans we have the...

I love the keepsake we bought at the fundraising auction for the Catholic School where Olive attended grade one. A group craft consisting...

Adult life has an unsavoury tendency to always resort back to serious. Humans created paper deadlines, layer upon layer of bureaucratic...

It took a furnace failure on a -20 Celsius Sunday to remind me of the importance of building redundancy into our lives. As soon as the...

My Filson water bottle was taken out of rotation months previous due to a damaged handle that was making it hard to carry around. I had...

Parent teacher interviews tend to be a stressful time for teachers and parents. Both sides feel that they are being judged. One side for...

I pointedly avoided a meeting recently where ten teachers deliberated around a table for over half of an hour regarding one student and...

As part of our onboarding with a new school board, we engaged in some Indigenous learning. The Indigenous leader took us through a...

I noticed a grade 9 student crocheting in the hallway at school and was immediately brought back to my youth where my granny would be...