I am an Ontario Certified Teacher and mother, with ten years of work experience in Digital Broadcast Media at Discovery Channel Canada and Corus Entertainment (including HISTORY & National Geographic Canada).
Engaging learners through inquiry and connecting them to real world experiences is my passion.
English, Media Literacy, Game-Based Learning, Gifted Education, and Outdoor Education are my prime areas of interest.
“If children can build, play and understand games that work, it’s possible that someday they will understand and design systems that work. And the world is full of complicated systems.” — Sara Corbett, Journalist, New York Times This week, I am pivoting a bit and telling you about my focus of research while pursuing my…
Teachers have a legal and moral duty to care for their students best summarized by the Latin phrase “In Loco Parentis” — in the place of a parent. In Ontario, and in many other parts of Canada, it’s the doctrine teachers embody in their practice and in their classrooms. But we now find ourselves in…
Last week, I posted some resources for parents who are looking to introduce a school-day type structure into their kids’ days, should they be ready. This week, I want to talk about the kids and the parents who are in a different situation…who’re struggling to cope with this new normal and who are barely making…
As teachers are expected to teach the local provincial curriculum (here, that’s the Ontario Curriculum for Elementary and Secondary grades), teaching is very intentional; teachers take great care in structuring their lessons so they evoke student learning. To help them organize the flow of the lesson so it progressively goes from simple to complex, and…
Like many things about the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing, families are going through various stages of coping with this new reality at home…We’ve seen denial that the novel coronavirus was a threat, to eventual acceptance that it was here and it was real, to panic-buying and empty shelves, to #CancelEverything and the ultimate retreat…
sp*rk curiosity 