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#WhySchool
Will Richardson’s blog was one of the very first educational blogs I followed. For close to a decade I have been reading, learning and engaging with Will. As a school principal at Riverside...
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On Baseball, History, Pitching and Teaching in West Vancouver
Len Corben is very well-known on the North Shore for his writing and commitment to athletics; a commitment that includes 31 years as the coordinator for North Shore Secondary School athletics, and as...
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Brett Wilson on Redefining Success and Education
One of the great treats at Christmas time is holiday reading. Added to this, I am very fortunate so many of my friends and family know that books are the ideal gift for me, and you can expect that...
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School and District Leaders in the Era of Social Media
I often speak and write about how the principalship and the superintendency need to look different in the era of social media. And, while it can be difficult to distill ideas to a few key points, a...
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Less But Better
I was first exposed to Greg McKeown’s notion of “The Disciplined Pursuit of Less” in reading his article for the Harvard Business Review a couple of years ago. McKeown argued that too much success...
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Measuring Up to Beyond Measure
West Vancouver is hosting a screening of the new movie Beyond Measure. Along with the new book of the same name by Vicki Abeles, they make the case of the collective power of communities to work...
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The Couros Remix
Growing up, I rarely bought albums from individual artists. Why buy albums from Shaggy, Seal and Weezer when I could get one album with “Boombastic”, “Kiss from a Rose” and “Buddy Holly” along with 14...
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It’s Not You, It’s me
OK, I picked the blog title largely to share one of my favourite Seinfeld clips: The title has a little more meaning than that. In recent weeks, I have had a number of people share this quote with me...
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Books That Stick
As we come up on the holiday break, it is a time that we often give and receive books, and look for some reading material to get us going again for the second half of the school year. This post is...
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Save Your Books
This summer I have been on the hunt for Mel Martin Baseball Mysteries. Actually my hunt for books in this series began in about 1982. The Mel Martin series of books that combined baseball and mystery...
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