Mike Edgar

@lids LETS GO LIDS

IT'S ALL CAPS DAY! IF YOU REPLY TO THIS IN ALL CAPS, WE MIGHT JUST SEND YOU A FREE HAT!

@PapaeWymore PaTTAN conducted a book study of Structured Literacy Interventions, by Louise Spear-Swerling and esteemed chapter authors. Each chapter's author (s) presentation was recorded on this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Many professional learning initiatives follow this course of action: ➡️ Let’s teach teachers something; ➡️ Let’s hope they use it; and ➡️ Let’s hope it impacts students. ❌ This isn’t terribly effective. ✅ Guskey’s backward planning model for PL offers an alternative.

“If you think the world is selfish and rotten, go to the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer overlooking Omaha Beach. See what one group of men did for another on D-Day, June 6th, 1944.” — Andy Rooney

Inspired by a conversation with high school students about life after high school, I contemplate the idea of a new elective course - Adulting 101: Real Skills for Real Life. abbyschools.ca/blog/beyond-cl… #BCEd #AbbySchools What would you include in the course?

Digital literacy and the use of AI in education: supports for British Columbia schools - Province of British Columbia www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/ed…

How high can you hear? Test your ears: t.ted.com/E16SK0Y

New gr 8 #PBL project Food for Futures. Inspired by @kate_grillo & Amanda Logan’s article in the Special issue #archaeology for Education link.springer.com/article/10.100… @SpringerAnthro

Project Based Learning: 3 Types of Direct Instruction #RealPBL "Nurturing students’ curiosities supersedes covering the curriculum." rosscoops31.com/2022/04/17/dir…

Cordial invite to join @mccainm and me live this coming Thursday night NOV 9 from 9P - 10P Eastern! Open to all teachers. No pre-registration required. 👇 Live URL: youtube.com/live/Fgturm1No… @pgliljedahl @thinkingclssrms #MTBoS #ITeachMath

We love seeing teachers collaborating off campus at the Okanagan Learning Foundation office!

BC's new K-12 Learning Pathways are now posted on the Ministry's curriculum website. This includes the re-imagined literacy and numeracy performance standards, now called Learning Progressions. curriculum.gov.bc.ca/learning-pathw… #sd38learn #bcedchat #numeracy

Congratulations to Coach Scheller and the Senior Boys Rugby team for placing second at the Provincial Championships.

Students overjoyed to be out of the Smokey skies and into the land of the living skies. @OKLearns @FultonSecondary

A big thank you to @OKLearns for their generous support towards Fulton’s Trans Canada Trek. Stay tuned for more adventures to come. @FultonSecondary @alangee64alan

@bcparksfdn My wish for nature is to leave it better than we found it.

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Your middle school child is the most amazing person | CNN cnn.com/2023/02/17/hea…