This past Sunday many of us participated in session two of the Innovator’s Mindset Massively Open Online Course (#IMMOOC). It is thrilling, honestly, to be participating in a community of educators who will give up…
Matt and I listen to a lot of podcasts. I’ve recently gotten into a podcast called Gen Pop – A Pop Culture Podcast and I really enjoy the podcasts created by Bald Move around the…
Halton Goes Back to Class As we mentioned in a previous post, this year the Halton District School Board has gone to the movies. Keeping with this theme, last Monday the board went back to…
Last Thursday evening, I travelled to Milton District High School for their showing of the documentary Most Likely To Succeed. If you haven’t seen it, check out the trailer before you read any further. I’ll…
I spent last Friday morning presenting with Joanne Eliuk at the Canadian Safe Schools Network 20/20 Conference. This conference, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Safe Schools Network had a focus on Technology and Digital…
Here we go! If you are interested in the background thinking that’s gone into this project, follow the link.
For some reason we thought it would be easier to move forward with this project now that we had some direction. We were wrong. Last week ended with us sitting down with Cindy Cosentino and…
Let’s put all the cards on the table before we get into our book list. When we say “reading”, what we really mean is “what pages do we look at after putting the kids to…
So are you innovating? That’s the question we seem to be getting a lot. It’s all in good fun right now as everyone who stops by to visit us while we are working are just…
Welcome to The Shift. This is a place where we hope to discover, explore and highlight the cool and forward thinking teaching practices, ideas and philosophies around the Halton District School Board. Who knows, we…