“Let him that would move the world first move himself” — Socrates
Author: Kieran
Header image: Canada FASD Research Network logo (Feb 9, 2026) The most prevalent disability in classrooms may be FASD — and supporting students is vitalhttps://theconversation.com/the-most-prevalent-disability-in-classrooms-may-be-fasd-and-supporting-students-is-vital-272553 Background: (June 19, 2025) Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: About, causes and co-occurring conditions https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder.html ➡ More than 400 other health conditions are related to or commonly occur together with fetal […]
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Wedding / Memory Bench // Coffin Stools
“It’s time to make sawdust…”
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by Witold Rybczynski
Stimpunks was forged in the quest for survival and inclusion.
“She spared the rod and spoiled corporal punishment in school”
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Protected: Buber (1923) “I and Thou”
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ADST
On the relationship between ADST courses and the UBC entry requirements.
Cross of Saint James / Santiago cross
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Graduation
Some photos and memories from graduation.
Via Charles Menzies’ Subbstack
Braid, K. (1979). Invisible women: Women in non-traditional occupations in B.C. [Master’s thesis; Simon Fraser University].
My dissertation has finally made it to the UBC repository, marking the official end of my Ph.D.
A 2025 CBC Documentary
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The Tragedy
The first draft of something I’ve been meaning to get back to
h/t Diane Campeau
What makes a good teacher?
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No Irish Need Apply
Anti-Irish sentiment
Under consrtruction
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Sargent, M. (2023). More ways of Learning
Foundations of practice for (inquiry) teachers
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Norman MacKenzie
Under construction
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K-12 Stories
News stories related to teachers and schools (mostly in BC)
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Protected: Update 18: Ireland 2025
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Otto Saloman, 1891: The teacher’s handbook of slöjd
On the necessity of relief cuts; BCIT SW9
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W.R.F. Seal Award
William Ronald Frank (“Ron”) Seal — 1914-2012
[Under construction]
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SW9 – Bowls
My hands-on learning in SW9 started here. It’s been awesome.
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Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
Header image: On of my weighted paracord fidgets. First Confession by Frank O’Connor [See the bottom of the page if you’d prefer to watch a film adaptation of the piece] All the trouble began when my grandfather died and my grand-mother – my father’s mother – came to live with us. Relations in the one […]
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The Goddess of Democracy
The lonely Goddess…
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Tagore
Under construction
Leitrim’s finest
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Labyrinth
(n.) a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.
“What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give.”
“…a fumble for eternity, a longing for heaven, a thirst for return to the embrace of the Almighty”
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Standard #9
[under construction] h/t to Isaiah Hardy for getting me thinking about this
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The Greatest Canadian
CBC Premier Broadcast (October 17th, 2004)
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PhD as Pilgrimage
Seeking reconciliation with the Other
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“My Parting Prescription for America”
Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy 19th & 21st Surgeon General of the United States Vice Admiral, United States Public Health Service
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ASRS at IKB
Automated Storage and Retrieval System
The Charter (esp. S.33, NWC) and some cases related to K-12
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Dwayne Huebner
The Dwayne Huebner Interviews
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SW9 Woodshop 2025
It’s time to make sawdust…
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UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences Building
Another “hidden tree” on campus
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Singer’s “Drowning Child”
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“The Shadow”
“The project raised concerns in 2017 partly due to the price tag (now estimated to cost approximately $400,000)…”
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Morse Code. Why knot?
Some notes on my Morse fidgets
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“The Scarfe Sculpture”
Paul Deggan (1965): Sculpture on the wall of the UBC Faculty of Education building