by Donna Miller Fry (@fryed)
I’ve spent most of my career advocating for access to high quality learning for everyone, independent of geography or genetics. We have the tools to do this, and the best universities have been giving away their courses for free for decades. It seems strange to me now that decades of research around what great online […]
Now that so many schools are closing globally, generous educators are madly sharing links to excellent resources for children not able to attend school. The purpose of this post is to collect some of those resources in one place. Please contribute to the document using this form. Your contribution will take about 5 minutes to […]
There is no doubt that March 14, 2020 has all of us in a world that is very different from the one we anticipated. The escalation of the national and provincial responses, in a time when everyone has a voice online and facts don’t always rise to the top, creates challenges we have yet to […]
In our classrooms, are we creating places where children are asked to fit in, or spaces where children know they belong? What is the difference? One non-education podcast I listen to regularly is On Being, with Krista Tippett. Recently, Brené Brown was a guest on a repodcast (from 2018). She talked about conversations with middle […]
It’s 2020 and we’re back to school! Across Canada, many of us have had a couple of weeks to pause and reflect on the past year, and consider our goals for 2020. But as we dive back into the fast pace of work in education, how will we meet our own learning needs, to build […]
The latest PISA results are about to be released to the public. How will the media spin the latest results? What outrage will surface? What drastic policy shifts will happen as a result? What pressure will be put on front line educators because of how their jurisdiction fares in the rankings? Why are we obsessed […]
December 1 is a great day to talk about educator wellness. We are 15 school days away from the only real relaxation time teachers get in the school year, but there are some incredibly long days between here and there. Last week I sat with other education leaders in Toronto as the #EdCan Network launched […]
On the Friday of the very first week of school, my granddaughter Chloé cried and cried and cried. It was not because she didn’t like school, but because her mom had just told her there was no school for two more days. Even though her family had fun weekend activities planned, she wanted to be […]
Educators are the busiest people I know. It’s easy to fall into the trap of being busy all the time. There is no end to activities we could be doing. But if we really ask ourselves what we are trying to achieve, and if we really think about whether what we are doing is leading […]
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 Today, my beautiful, curious, imaginative, creative, energetic, confident 4-year-old granddaughter begins her journey through the public school system. Will her teachers see her as the capable and competent child that she is? I am thinking about the words Yong Zhoa said to me in 2015. Children come into the school system […]
