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Edutalks with Vince Hill

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EduTalks with Vince Hill is a dedicated space for educators, leaders, and anyone passionate about teaching and learning. I share practical advice, reflections on effective pedagogy, evidence-based approaches to assessment, and essential readings.

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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I spent some time over the past two weeks reviewing and researching these both. They are not the same.
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Grading the Government’s Referendum Website & Brochure
Alberta's referendum site promises to inform voters. Read it the way a Social Studies student reads a source, and it looks more like a campaign.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My thoughts where schools and parents went wrong on reading
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The Teachers Who Refused to Choose
Reading survived television. The real damage came when schools and families stopped making time for books.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Truth and Reconciliation Day
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The Story Before the Shirt
Why the truth about residential schools meets resistance, and what actually reaches the people who simply don't know.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Some more random thoughts
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The Case for Confederation We Need to Start Making
While separatists list their grievances, here's what Confederation actually offers Alberta, and why Europe just made the timing worse for walking away
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don’t know if I add much to this story
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The Seat That Wasn't Supposed to Flip
What Calgary-Shaw says about the gap between separatist noise and separatist votes
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s more than a few grumpy old men
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The Men Behind the Movements
What the data says about who is actually driving Alberta toward the exit.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Do we need to remove devices completely from the classroom?
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What We Lost in the Margins
Handwriting, honesty, and the eight week silence that let AI in through the back door
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I don’t know about you, but I’m annoyed, bordering on angry!
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The Price Was Zero
Apple and Google renamed a lake for free. Danielle Smith went to Nashville for the same price. Here is who pays.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What is going on in this province?
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The Wealthiest Province with the Second-Worst Job Market
Alberta added more jobs than any other province this year and still can't shake a 7.0 percent unemployment rate.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Do you ever wonder, “why?”
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Why, Not What Comes Next
Alberta politics, prediction, and the question Véliz says we keep skipping
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Are we losing kids to devices? Especially in the classroom.
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The Screens We Handed Them
Notes from a principal watching Europe roll back the devices we were told couldn't be rolled back
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Important story about the separatist approach.
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Heritage Is Not a Shield
What the debate gets wrong about who gets to speak for Alberta First Nations
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It is not in nature to swear generally, but WTF!!! It is diabolical, evil, despicable, disgusting, and I’m deeply offended. As a person, who grew up on a reserve until I was 8 1/2, a father who is native, who has 4 degrees, and went to post secondary for 11 years on my own dime, I’m offended!
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Sign the petition if you will!
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Support for a Chance in Life for Sohaib
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Scroll through Facebook for five minutes and you’ll see exactly what it looks like when a population hasn’t practiced those habits. We don’t have a shortage of opinions. We have a shortage of people who know how to test one.
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What Mr. McRae Knew That Many of Us Didn’t
Social studies keeps losing kids by Monday. The Four Question Method is built to address that.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
And expanded version from last week in response to a hardcore libertarian debating my essay.
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The Words Everyone Uses and Almost Nobody Can Define
Neoliberalism, libertarianism, and the strange hybrid running Alberta
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My stab at AI being used in school
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The Machine That Cried Robot
Watching Kids Write While a Machine Guesses
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The libertarian ideology is gaining traction in Alberta. It’s already been tried in history, why are we trying it again?
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Freedom From Each Other
If this ideology has already failed before, why is Alberta reaching for it again
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Just read Douglas Murray’s book this week, thought I would share the key points while they are still fresh in my mind as they relate to the referendum and immigration.
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Immigration Without the Noise
What Alberta's Referendum Debate Keeps Missing
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is an extra this week. Felt in needed to write about it while it’s still current.
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The Four Hour and Forty Four Minute Binge
What a Media Diet of Grievance and Suspicion Is Doing to This Province of Alberta
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Thoughts about what is driving the Christian Nationalist movement in Alberta.
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Alberta Is Choosing a Story America Already Told
Trust breaks in a headline. It only rebuilds one relationship at a time.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Talking about teaching and learning this morning. What connects and what doesn’t.
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Emotion Is Learning
What neuroscience says about the teachers we remember and the ones we don't
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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How long does Pierre Poilievre stay?
Inside Conservative critics are done pretending the leadership review settled anything.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I usually write about education, but this piece is about something else entirely. It doesn’t mention Danielle Smith, the referendum, or the separatist movement once. I think it’s just as important for us to understand right now.
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Five Dollars, Since 1899
How an Alberta First Nation's lawsuit exposes a century of broken treaty promises
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I was watching Danielle Smith on Real Talk with Ryan Jespersen, and she explained her immigration referendum questions the way she explains everything: calmly, in complete sentences, with numbers ready. No slurs. No sneering. Just a premier walking through categories of residency status.
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Permission to Hate, Plausible Deniability
How a premier builds a permission structure without ever giving an order.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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The Cost of Asking Nicely
Who Waits and Who Gets Heard: Alberta's Separatist Debate
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I was sitting here thinking about the importance of school culture. It's an honest look, and probably not something we like to look closely at, because, in truth, many of us in leadership have failed along the way in creating sustainable school culture. Let me know what you think?
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What the School Culture Keeps
Why good programs vanish with the people who built them, and what actually survives.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Happy Canada Day!
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United Alberta Within a Sovereign Canada
The numbers are real. The punishment is a myth. So is the sovereignty.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I was having a conversation with a colleague, who was explaining they feel they don't have the words to affirm and acknowledge adequately. I replied, I too felt I didn't possess the skills until I came across the Virtues Project. The change was profound and life changing. I
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The Language I Never Learned
Why Naming Goodness in Others Matters More Than We Think
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Response to a reader who asked this question.
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The Comfort of Victimhood: What Psychology Tells Us About the Grievance Mentality
On why facts don’t work, and what might with Alberta separatists
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
My response to a parents email asking for better communication from the teachers.
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Feedback That Actually Works: Why Getting Student Work Back Quickly Matters
A conversation about assessment, trust, and what Alberta families deserve to know
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This is my opinion, you might disagree.
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The Politics of Permanent Contempt: Why Poilievre’s Strategy Will Be His Undoing
On grievance, governance, and why the angriest man in Ottawa might need to lighten up
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
My thoughts about educational leadership and some of my experiences.
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The Leaders We Remember (And the Ones We Survived)
Who acknowledges the acknowledgers? A reflection on superintendents, after a night of service awards.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
My reflections on the state of Alberta drawing from the prodigal son parable.
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The Resentful Son: Alberta’s Politics of Inherited Grievance
Alberta is not the victim of Confederation. It is the product of it.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
My usual education weekend piece about an issue in schools.
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The Suspension Reflex
When Consequences Feel Like Action But Aren't
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We need to pay attention
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The Free Vote That Isn’t Free
On the curious logic of holding a low-stakes referendum on a high-stakes question
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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Teachers Who Don't Read Are Teaching the Wrong Lesson: The Case for Reading
Why Books Still Matter in a World That Has Stopped Turning Pages
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Maybe Ask Before You Leave
What Danielle Smith doesn’t understand about duty to consult, and what Wab Kinew already told her about it in private
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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The Bowl, the Bathroom, and the Battle We Think We’re Winning
A dispatch from the front lines of the great Alberta Education phone war in the classroom
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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This Is How Alberta Loses
A History of Populism, a Warning About Now, and a List of Rooms You Should Probably Show Up To
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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The Data Is Already Gone
What the Centurion Project story is really about, and what nobody is telling Albertans
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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Saying Farewell to the Old Farewell: Rethinking Who We Honour at Graduation
Why Alberta Schools Might Consider Expanding How They Recognize Their Graduates.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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If Alberta Had a Democracy Score, It Would Be Dropping
The United States has a number. Canada does not. Alberta does not. But if we applied the same measuring stick, here is what we would find.
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is not my usual Wednesday column. What follows is satire. Or it is fiction. Or it is just the current policy agenda described in the wrong tense. I will let you decide. open.substack.com/pub/vincehil...
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Blue and Gold
A Dispatch from the Western Interior
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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Pt 3: From Outcome to Evidence
Part Three of a Series on Outcomes, Learning Progressions, and Teaching Toward Thinking
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 27/04/2026
I gave a talk this weekend about the stakes of not simplifying our defense of democracy. Bonus 1990s movie reference in the title. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/3-simple-r...
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3 Simple Rules
We need to get back to democratic basics, and stop treating the public square like a political science seminar.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 29/04/2026
A thoughtful piece that builds on my thinking about simplifying conversations about democratic backsliding. @vincehill.bsky.social takes it to the next level with great tips and a call to action at the end. open.substack.com/pub/vincehil...
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Jekyll and Hyde Democracy in Alberta
One face for Sunday, another for Monday
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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Jekyll and Hyde Democracy in Alberta
One face for Sunday, another for Monday
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
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Pt 2: The Verb That Changes Everything
Part Two of a Series on Outcomes, Learning Progressions, and Teaching Toward Thinking
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Edutalks with Vince Hill @vincehill.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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The Conversation That Should Happen Before OBA Implementation Does
An Alberta Parent Weighs In on What Is Actually Breaking Down in Classroom Assessment
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