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Header image: UBC FoE Website [in progress] Aoki Prize for Outstanding Dissertation 2026 ﻼF 2025 2024 2023? Myron A. Medina (Susan) 2022 Nicholle Lee (Rita) 2021 2020* Blake Smith (Rita)Joanne Mary Price (Susan)Sandra Delgado (Wayne) 2019* Patricia Liu Baergen (Bill) 2017 Samira Thomas (Bill) 2015* Danny Bakan (Peter G) 2010 Kedrick James (Carl […]
“Let him that would move the world first move himself” — Socrates
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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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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Cross of Saint James / Santiago cross
Braid, K. (1979). Invisible women: Women in non-traditional occupations in B.C. [Master’s thesis; Simon Fraser University].
A 2025 CBC Documentary
h/t Diane Campeau
What makes a good teacher?
Anti-Irish sentiment
Under consrtruction
Foundations of practice for (inquiry) teachers
On the necessity of relief cuts; BCIT SW9
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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 […]
Leitrim’s finest
“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”
“Educators critically examine their own biases, attitudes, beliefs, values and practices to facilitate change.”
CBC Premier Broadcast (October 17th, 2004)
Seeking reconciliation with the Other
Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy 19th & 21st Surgeon General of the United States Vice Admiral, United States Public Health Service
The Charter (esp. S.33, NWC) and some cases related to K-12
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Ursula Le Guin (2005): A Rant About “Technology”.
The Corruption of the Best: On Ivan Illich
Further exploration of the Möbius Strip
Michael Sacasas (2024): The Enclosure of the Human Psyche.
Anne Phelan (2005): On Discernment: The Wisdom of Practice and the Practice of Wisdom in Teacher Education
Zimmerman et al. (1998): A Complexity Science Primer: What is Complexity Science and Why Should I Learn About It?
Carl Leggo (2005): Pedagogy of the Heart: Ruminations on Living Poetically
Parker Palmer (1993): To Know as We Are Known: A Spirituality of Education.
David Autor (2024): AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class
Ezra Shales (2017): The shape of craft
Header image: Darryl Dick/The Canadian Press Naloxone (pronounced na-LOX-own) is a fast-acting medication used to temporarily reverse the effects of opioid overdoses, also called an opioid poisoning. [source] ∞ (April 28, 2025) Inquest into UVic student overdose hears heart-wrenching testimony from mother https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/coroner-s-inquest-into-uvic-overdose-death-begins-monday-1.7520574 (Feb 18, 2025) DTES support worker says recovery-oriented approach needs to replace […]
Yuval Noah Harari (2024): Nexus
Seemann (2009): Technacy education
(2016) Mother who sued Port Alberni school board over First Nations smudging ceremony
Jeremy O’Shea (2021): MEd on “Indigenizing Shop”
Leonard Read (1958): I, Pencil – My Family Tree
Text of 1998 “Statement of Reconciliation”
Kahlil Gibran (1926): Sand and Foam
BCTF resource (2023): “to support teachers in being consciously reflective of their professional autonomy as well as their rights and responsibilities as a teacher”
KF: scan images from BC Archive
Clarke & Robertson (2001): Insight into “questionable” research practices