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Can I Learn Anything from a Canadian?

Interest in the education system in British Columbia and Canada generally seems to be at an all time high. Likely, in part driven by high PISA (International testing) results, edu-tourism is...

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Superintendent Blogging Should Be a Fixture

  This post is a copy of a column in this month’s AASA School Administrator Magazine WAY BACK IN 2012, it seemed like almost everyone had a blog. At the time, it appeared a blog (or weblog as it was...

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My “Top 3” Lists for 2019

Welcome to the 10th “Top 3” List.  When I started blogging, one of the things I started with was this year-end list.  Everyone loves a year end list!  And this was intended to be a little different....

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How Do BC School Superintendents Spend Their Time?

Happy September! There is a lot going on this fall in schools and I have no shortage of ideas to explore related to COVID and schooling, but as we head back to school I wanted to use my post this week...

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What Did I Learn From Anthony McLean?

We have an Opening Day tradition in West Vancouver.  The first day back with staff we come together for a series of annual rituals and a keynote address from a speaker who helps set the tone for the...

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10 Years and Still Going

The Culture of Yes turns 10 this month. 364 posts later, and here we are. Starting this blog seemed like a natural fit.   In an earlier time I had been a newspaper columnist so was pretty familiar...

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Last 10, Today and Next 10

I was recently part of an interesting national conversation “Future Proofing Education – The Past is a Prologue” with four other superintendents from across Canada. In 2011, early in my...

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Lessons of an Adult Student

It had been a while since I had been a student. I finished my Masters degree in 1999 – that was last century! At the time, I had imagined continuing on immediately into my doctorate. I actually...

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This is Post 400

I loved this quote above that I saw recently from Adam Grant.  It nicely summarizes what I love about this space.  I look back at posts I have written over the last twelve years and see how my...

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Has COVID Changed How Adults Learn in School?

I have written numerous times about the impact of COVID on student learning. In 7 COVID Edu Trends That Will Stick I wrote about shifts from an increased focus on equity, to greater digitization of...

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