by Donna Miller Fry (@fryed)
On May 1, 2025, I went to the Yukon Legislative Assembly with my family, friends, and most importantly, the parents of victims of abuse from teachers at Jack Hulland Elementary. The remarkable team from the Yukon Child Youth Advocate Office was also in attendance. Of note, we signed in as part of a contigent to […]
You might be surprised to know that not every day as a superintendent goes exactly as planned. Does any day in education go exactly as planned? I once read that teaching is more difficult than surgery. A surgeon works on something he has a clear picture of. A teacher changes children every day. That is […]
It was another long travel day yesterday (you’ll see a theme here) and another opportunity to listen to podcasts and books while driving. It turns out the podcasts that are a good cure for insomnia are not best suited for those long straight drives in northern British Columbia on the way to the Northwest Territories, […]
The ideas I’m playing with today involve education’s old model of teaching as content (information) delivery, and the definition of “information” that Yuval Noah Harari puts forward in his latest book “Nexus“. I’ve often said that I believe the “content delivery” model of teaching is at least partially responsible for the current difficulty of getting […]
It’s a travel day for me, which often means the luxury of lots of podcasts and audiobooks. I happened to have an older podcast with Dean Shareski and Chris Kennedy in my downloaded feed, and though it sparked my interest because it was about research on Superintendent work, I was delighted to hear the opening […]
In the fall of 2024, I had the remarkable good fortune of receiving an invitation to be the Superintendent of Education for the Dehcho Divisional Education Council, based in Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada. It’s an incredible honour to be chosen for this role. I have so much to be grateful for. I have promised […]
Saying that it [corporal punishment] is not allowed, isn’t going to change a school culture entirely. We don’t know what other forms of discipline will come in. I think really in the simplest forms when I talk with families, I remind them that our goal is no pain — so that’s corporal punishment– no shame, […]
Why don’t children go to school in the Yukon? Through its individual advocacy work, the Yukon Child and Youth Advocate Office (YCAO) found that an astonishing number of Yukon children rarely attended school. The Office embarked on a systemic review of the reasons why children were not going to school, releasing the final report on […]
“For these reasons, I will order the Yukon government to disclose and produce tocounsel for the plaintiffs a list of names, last known addresses, last known emailaddresses, and last known telephone numbers of all students of JHES betweenJanuary 1, 2002 and June 30, 2022, and of their parents.” Chief Justice S.M. Duncan, Yukon Supreme Court […]
Bill C-273 passed second reading in the House of Commons (Canada) on February 14th. Prior to the vote, a discussion was held in the legislature. You can read what your Member of Parliament said (or didn’t say) here. You can see how each Member of Parliament voted on this Private Members Bill to protect ALL […]
