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Success = Boredom.

Today during Cohort 21, a notification popped up on my phone. It was letting me know that Casey Neistat, one...

Every year, I take my Grade 12 Green Industries students to NYC for a weekend of experiential learning about...

Why should we #teachcities to young people? For me, today was a perfect illustration of how the city, in...

*originally posted on the Greenwood College School website on May 22, 2014. Over the past year, students in Grade...

Last week, my grade 12 students presented their final "deliverables" created in their "Choose Your Own Adventure" (CYOA) unit...

"The capacity to innovate — the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life — and...

At the start of the third term, I was approached by a colleague seeking to collaborate on a new...

As mentioned in my previous post, engaging students through social action has always been one of my goals. This...

One of my priorities as an educator is to connect students to the real world while also making...

Last weekend, as "superstorm" Sandy was zeroing in on New York City, I was in NYC on a field...

Once again this year, I had the good fortune of having an election take place during my Civics course....

As part of the projects-bases focus of the Grade 11 Green Industries course, I designed a project that would...