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PostPandemic
Nine Assumptions
Suggested core concepts
Maths core concepts
Sciences core concepts
Communications core concepts
Concepts that may not be central to engaged citizenship
Music, Arts, Literature, Athletics
Critical Thinking, Media Literacy
Some Issues & related concepts
Concepts underlying climate change
Concepts underlying inter-group bias and hate
Concepts underlying the spread of disease
Concepts underlying retirement planning and investing
Pedagogical neutrality
Origins of the Post-Pandemic Curriculum Project
Apollo 13, CoVid-19, and Core Concepts Needed by Citizens
A short exponential quiz
Improving the Post-Pandemic Curriculum discussions
Brain+Body
Self-Regulation
Feel, Think, Do
Self-regulation: a definition
Co-regulation and developing self-regulation
Self-regulation in the Classroom
Lessons Learned in Creating a Self-Regulation Classroom
Concussion = Traumatic Brain Injury (not “head injury”)
5 Key concussion messages
Concussion myths
Return-to-learn, return-to-having-fun
Brain injury resources
Activity, Food, Sleep
Sitting is the new smoking
Why don’t more kids walk to school? Distance & fear
Benefits of walking/biking to school
Traffic planning ignores students biking/walking
Traffic study of proposed development at 1100 Briar Hill Ave. Toronto
CDC Report on Health Supports in US Schools
Learning
Maths
Arithmetic as Spelling. Maths as Poetry.
The Thinking Classroom
Buildings+Land
Small vs Big: What’s the right size for a school?
Community use of schools
Community Hubs in Ontario Report
Keeping Schools in a State of Good Repair
Advocating for School Repairs
Accountability
Roles & Relationships
Collegially Disagreeable – The key to good governance
Agreeable / Disagreeable
6 Rules to a Collegially Disagreeable Culture
The Value of Elected School Board Trustees
TVO’s “The Agenda with Steve Paikin” debate with Maddie Di Muccio
Fact-checking and Rebutting SQE on Elected Trustees
Elected, appointed, or no board: which is better?
How elected Trustees are good for students
Trustee or Ombudsman – who should you call?
Independent reports about TDSB Trustees
Provincial Education Acts on Role of Trustees
Culture+Staffing
The Principal is the Key
Principal: not a job for just anybody
Making better Principals, making Principals better
Building a School Culture That Supports Students
Collective agreements
Students aren’t mentioned in collective agreements
Union priorities don’t mention students
Union Leaders’ 10 Commandments to Catholic Teachers
Ontario Collective Agreements – Detailed issues
Detailed Issue Summary – Ontario
Labour negotiations Q&A – Ontario
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