As our school moves to attempt to add another stream of communication to parents via SMS (text messaging), I have been asked – “how many ways do we need to communicate with parents?” Should parents not just try harder to… Continue Reading
Anti-Bullying Day, Earth Day, Aboriginal Day,… These, and many others, are important days to help raise awareness around wrong-doings that occur in our schools and society. What we MUST be aware of is that just because we participate in these… Continue Reading
I am pleased to once again have Sheila Stewart (@sheilaspeaking) write a guest post for The Wejr Board. Sheila is one of my mentors on the topic of parent and family engagement in school. Sheila’s perspectives and advice regarding parent… Continue Reading
The GNP [GDP] measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” — Robert F. Kennedy,… Continue Reading
As a follow-up to my recent post “My Issue With Rewards”, I wanted to highlight the thoughts of two parents from my PLN on the topic of rewards. These individuals have caused me to reflect further upon the use of… Continue Reading
After tweeting out David Wees’ (@davidwees) brilliant post on how We Will Never End Bullying In Our Schools, Jennifer Marten @jenmarten, tweeted this video, “Children Learn What They Live” to add to the discussion. It reminds me of a quote… Continue Reading
“Instead of worrying about the message your school is sending on social media platforms, consider the message your school is sending by NOT engaging with social media at all.” M. Peacock via Ferriter, Ramsden, Sheninger. A few years ago, I… Continue Reading
For the past few weeks, I have been wondering why the loss of a former student has hit me so hard (please read this post as it will help make sense of this one). Andrew was a great kid.. but… Continue Reading
A few years ago, as a new principal, I made a decision to recognize the children for “making a difference” at our school. The idea was that at our monthly assembly, all staff members would have an opportunity to publicly… Continue Reading
“Social Media Super Man” @davidwees and I invite you to attend our second ever Twitter chat about issues in BC Education. We will be having these chats weekly/biweekly throughout the year and will be using the hashtag #BCed. For Monday,… Continue Reading