During the municipal elections, many first heard about the SOGI 123 implementation as a topic for school board trustee candidates. Did they support SOGI? Were they against it? Those outside of the K-12 education system may not know what SOGI means, and its importance to kids and our c
Four rich years in organizing I came back to British Columbia in 2014 after living abroad, and jumped into political organizing. Now I feel myself being drawn back towards teaching. Books I have read lately – and one in particular – affirm this old/new direction. In these last four ye
Indigenous Perspectives Over the past two years the Province of British Columbia has started to implement a new curriculum for students in Kindergarten to Grade 9. Over the next two years the new curriculum will be implemented for students in high school. This overhaul represents chan
During my Master of Education program, I read an article in which the author speculated that the future belonged not to monolingual English speakers, but to multilingual people who could better understand and converse with people from different language backgrounds. I keep that in min
La historia de la escolaridad Ya hemos hablado en este blog sobre la diferenciación entre dos conceptos largamente distanciados pero fuertemente relacionados como la educación y la escolaridad. A nivel académico, este es un tópico recurrente. La distinción entre escuela y educación es
Language within a language When I lived in Turkey, I began to learn some political language in Turkish, by capturing vocabulary from conversations, photographing and analyzing election billboards, and talking about political resistance with friends. Now I often wonder what it’s like f
What does social justice teaching look like now? The day after the US election results, I sat in my Social Studies 9 classroom and wrote an email to… myself? my best friend? the future? I just needed to get it down, and I’d like to share it with a wider audience. What am I
Vocabulary of the Social Change Community Over a year a ago, I took a position as Provincial Organizer with Dogwood, an organization that brings together local people to defend air, land, and water in B.C. I notice that since then, I have adopted a new set of words and ways of using c
“Me gritaron negra” Las palabras de Victoria Santa Cruz son un excelente manera de visibilizar una realidad bastante marginada en el Perú: la discriminación racial existe. Aunque se discute muchísimo, a nivel mediático y académico, si el racismo todavía existe en el país,
