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Is This Important? A Simple Yet Powerful Question About Focus

Posted on January 9, 2025 by Chris Wejr

Over the past few years, I have been trying to get off the phone and be in the moment more often. I rarely use LinkedIn or Twitter/X anymore, and I have never used TikTok as I know where this will… Continue Reading →

Personal, Social Media distractibility, focus, present, screen time, ScreenZen, social media
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Building Staff Culture: The Importance of Gratitude

Posted on February 4, 2018 by Chris Wejr

As educators, we take a lot of our efforts and successes for granted. As we raise the bar and do more, implement new ideas, and have more success, our baseline grows and we seem to embrace this as a new… Continue Reading →

Leadership, Moral Stewardship, Personal
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Maybe Dad: A Simple and Powerful Message From My Daughters

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Chris Wejr

I sat there and stared at the table setting and welled up in tears. The other 3 plates contained what was left of a family dinner and mine lay there empty. Beside each table setting, my girls had written the… Continue Reading →

Personal, Relational Leadership balance, dinner time, family, family time, fatherhood, priorities, wellness
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How taking email off my phone helped me win the inbox battle and live more in the moment

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Chris Wejr

There were moments in the past few years when my inbox reached over 1000 unread emails. I felt like I was drowning each time I looked at my Outlook or my phone email app. I remember when I used to take… Continue Reading →

Personal, Social Media
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Support the “Joe Bower ‘For the Love of Learning’ Memorial Scholarship Fund”

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Chris Wejr

Back in January, we lost a true reformer in education and a close friend of mine, Joe Bower. I have not been able to find the right words to express the impact Joe had on me as a person and as… Continue Reading →

Personal Jim Bower, Joe Bower, Red Deer College
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We Wore the Orange Shirts… What’s Next? #orangeshirtday

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Chris Wejr

Today was (is) an important day in the steps toward reconciliation in Canada. Today, many people wore orange shirts “in honour of residential school survivors and in memory of those who did not”.  This is a huge start in creating… Continue Reading →

Educational Change, Moral Stewardship, Personal Orange Shirt Day, Residential Schools, strength, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Through a Child’s Eyes… It Was the Best Day Ever

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Chris Wejr

As a parent of twin four-year-olds and a principal of an elementary school, there are times when I look back with disappointment in the way I responded impatiently or somewhat disrespectfully to my kids and/or students. As I lay calmly… Continue Reading →

Moral Stewardship, Personal, Relational Leadership moments, parenting, perspective
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Not Everyone Is Able to Tweet and Post Who They Are

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Chris Wejr

There is often much discussion around the separation of our professional and personal lives on social media.  Some districts strongly encourage this separation while others encourage the blending of both.  I have been a supporter of the latter as I… Continue Reading →

Leadership, Moral Stewardship, Personal, Relational Leadership, Social Media Facebook, LGBTQ, social media, twitter
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My Late Homework (please don’t dock marks)

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Chris Wejr

There has been a chain of blog posts (or memes) going around with bloggers challenging others to share a bit about themselves, answer questions, and then ask others to do the same.  I am not a big fan of homework… Continue Reading →

Personal all about me, meme
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Why I Took Facebook and Twitter Off My Phone

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Chris Wejr

I am proud to call myself a connected educator; however, I am not proud to say that being connected distracted me from my students… and my kids. When I first joined Twitter in 2008, I was skeptical and was trying… Continue Reading →

Leadership, Personal, Social Media balance, connected educator, Facebook, self-control, social media, twitter

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