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      • Democracy is a “Weak-Link” process
      • An exponential quiz
        • Exponential quiz answer = 11.13AM
    • A PostPandemic Curriculum will work with any pedagogy
    • Is It Ever Too Early?
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      • Concepts underlying climate change
      • Concepts underlying Inter-group Bias and Hate
      • Concepts underlying the spread of disease
      • Concepts underlying retirement planning and investing
    • Collegially Disagreeable – The key to productive conversations
  • Importance of Public Schools
    • Public Schools and Democracy
    • Public schools are as good as private ones
    • Self-Regulation
      • Feel, Think, Do
      • Self-regulation: a definition
      • Self-regulation vs Self-control and Compliance
      • Self-regulation in the Classroom
      • Lessons Learned in Creating a Self-Regulation Classroom
      • Co-regulation and developing self-regulation
    • Brain & Body
      • CDC Report on Health Supports in US Schools
      • Activity, Food, Sleep
      • Concussion = brain damage not “head injury”
        • Return-to-learn, return-to-having-fun
        • 5 Key concussion messages
        • 9 Dangerous Myths about Concussions
        • Concussion-related resources
      • Why don’t more kids walk to school? Distance & fear
        • Benefits of walking/biking to school
        • Sitting is the new smoking
        • Traffic planning ignores students biking/walking
          • Traffic study of proposed development at 1100 Briar Hill Ave. Toronto
    • Learning
      • The Thinking Classroom
      • Maths
        • Arithmetic as Spelling.  Maths as Poetry. 
    • Buildings & Land
      • Small vs Big: What’s the right size for a school?
      • Why TDSB has to sell land
      • Community use of schools
        • Community Hubs in Ontario Report
      • Keeping Schools in a State of Good Repair
        • Advocating for School Repairs
    • Culture & Staffing
      • Building a School Culture That Supports Students
      • The Principal is the Key
        • Making better Principals, making Principals better
        • Principal: not a job for just anyone
      • Collective agreements
        • Union to Teachers: Follow rules or else
          • Students aren’t mentioned in collective agreements
          • Who speaks for student-needs in labour negotiations?
        • Ontario Collective Agreements – Detailed issues
        • Labour negotiations Q&A – Ontario
    • Accountability
      • Collegially Disagreeable – The key to good governance
        • 6 Rules to a Collegially Disagreeable Culture
        • Agreeable / Disagreeable
        • Cohesion & Deference
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      • The Value of Elected School Board Trustees
        • How elected Trustees are good for students
          • Elected, appointed, or no board: which is better?
          • TVO’s “The Agenda with Steve Paikin” debate with Maddie Di Muccio
            • Fact-checking and Rebutting SQE on Elected Trustees
          • Independent reports about TDSB Trustees
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        • Trustee or Ombudsman – who should you call?
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  • Elected, appointed. or no board: which is better February 7, 2019
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  • EdVo-Post: Term Limits – Turnover data on MPs, Ontario MPPs, Toronto Councillors, & Ontario Public Trustees September 22, 2015
  • EdVo-Post: Community Hubs Action Plan Report September 21, 2015
  • EdVo-Post: Trustee or Ombudsman – who should you call? September 18, 2015
  • EdVo-Post: Elected Trustees are good for schools & students September 10, 2015
  • EdVo-Post: Walking & School Closures & Helicopter parents September 10, 2015
  • EdVo-Post: What Vaccines & Sex-ed have in common September 9, 2015
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