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Pedagogy and Activity
06/16/2026

Pedagogy and Activity

“Here’s a great tool to help you…” What inevitably comes next is a description of an activity devoid of pedagogy and purpose. As technology has crept into education, time and again I’ve seen the focus be on activity and ‘engagement’ but the so-called engagement is more about keeping a ...

Closure rather than ending
06/16/2026

Closure rather than ending

Maybe it’s just semantics but I think the word choices we make are important. Our words frame our understanding of the world. I’ve been having a lot of ‘lasts’ recently as I head into retirement. My last interview for a hire, my last field trip, my last principal’s breakfast meeting, etc. ...

It’s going to be tough
06/15/2026

It’s going to be tough

A while ago my buddy, also named Dave, and I decided that we were going to Everest the Crunch: Travel 37 times up the Coquitlam Crunch, which is equivalent to the height of Mount Everest, in 48 hours. We’ve been doing the crunch regularly since January 2021, and today was number 239 since then. To...

Odds and ends
06/14/2026

Odds and ends

I spent a good part of the afternoon figuring out how I’m going to set up the new solar heaters I purchased for our above ground pool. I used to have 4 large panels that I laid across our garage roof, but I’m not going up on the roof anymore. This was a decision I made at the start of last summe...

Extended alone time
06/13/2026

Extended alone time

I met some colleagues after work today and two of them had interesting stories about extended alone time. One of them opened up a summer camp in April, and kids didn’t come to the camp until July. He had tasks to do, and animals to care for, but most days he just did a specific task or two he deci...

Career spanning wisdom
06/12/2026

Career spanning wisdom

When I shared this story with my Principal and Vice Principal colleagues this morning, I joked that I’d blogged about it previously. However, while I was able to find a couple references to the story, I realized after a search of my blogs that I have not shared the full story before. This morning ...

School and measuring intelligence
06/10/2026

School and measuring intelligence

A few months back I saw a video from a very articulate young girl who goes by Gluten Free Runner on TikTok. I liked the video but didn’t follow her. She just came back on my feed again and her recent video definitely earned her a follow. She asks, “What if the way we measure intelligence is comp...

Inevitable threat
06/09/2026

Inevitable threat

I said this in March, 2024: “We are less than a decade away from one intelligent crackpot, working in his or her (more likely an incel ‘his’) basement lab, creating or recreating a deadly virus and having it spread covid-19 style across the globe… The greatest threat to mankind isn’t wealt...

Writing speeches
06/08/2026

Writing speeches

Last Friday my buddy Dave and I delivered speeches that we combined together. At our Principal and Vice Principals association retirement dinner, the tradition is that someone speaks for the retiree, then the retiree speaks. Since we were going to speak for each other, we just went up and took turns...

Road rage
06/08/2026

Road rage

My buddy started a point system to track his road rage. He can think about frustrations, but if he verbalizes anything, he loses points. If he does something nice like let some in his lane, he gains points. His goal is to be in the plus after every car ride. I think I could do this if I lived in LA,...

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