Our Collective Focus

It’s the last day of January, 2021 – a year we hope will bring an end to lockdowns, self-isolation, days on Zoom, border closures and masks. Our past 12 months have been like no other. Yet, we go on. Tired, facing complexities and shifts in “normal”. We keep teaching. We keep learning. Learning. Professional learning […]

#OneWordEdCan

Happy New Year! I often think back to this time one year ago. On the news, we were hearing and seeing the horrific details of a viral infection in Wuhan, China, and the impact of lockdown in the city. We really had no idea how it would impact our lives. We went on making resolutions […]

Flourish #oneword2019 #onewordONT

For 2019, the word that I will keep at the centre of who I am and what I do is FLOURISH. I recently wrote about flourishing as part of a blogging challenge: What do you need to flourish? For me, 7 hours of quality sleep in fresh air, freshly ground coffee, and a morning run […]

What I Learned in 2017

On this last day of 2017, I am going back over my year of learning.  The purpose of this post is mainly to help me reflect, and to organize my work into one place for easy access.  If you are reading this, I invite you to take a quick look at some of the topics […]

#OneWordONT – 2015 and 2016

My #OneWordONT for 2015 was COURAGE. I checked in here at the halfway point in the year to reflect on how well I was ‘living by the word’ in the first 6 months of 2015.  Courage has been a tough one.  The ‘other side’ of courage can be challenging to manage. By far the most […]