For our personal essay writing part of the Grade 10 English course, we introduced openings to different essays to help inspire different kinds of writing. In the fall of 2024, Casey Hackett shared …

I recently learned about the New York Times’ series, “Annotated by the Author,” from a colleague at another school. In the series, writers share the thinking and approaches they t…

For some reason, this year, a year when I’m back in the classroom after a two year stint as a consultant with the WRDSB, I’ve elected to teach the two grades that also have EQAO testing…

If you’re not familiar with “BTC,” it stands for Building Thinking Classrooms and is a set of practices researched and developed by Peter Liljedahl that foster thinking (not mimic…

I’ve toyed with different ways to deal with seating plans and create randomized groups when students are collaborating together in a thinking classroom. My most recent practice involves these…