Okay, the truth is that creating an in-school Pink Shirt Day with lasting impact is tough. Yet, the day does offer the opportunity to warm up a school’s social climate. The most effective way to combat bullying is from the inside – through student input...
Post Zoomshop High! This here is me after intensely focusing for 2.5 hours – after Self-Care for Educators in a world gone mad! I mean…when we have to take a break and when it’s pretty much forced on us – as it’s our Pro-D day, we sure...
The school year is almost over and teachers and parents and kids are TIRED!!!! I know because I’ve been with you throughout the year. I’ve connected with you at your school, at conferences, online, and in life and you’ve told me! You’ve cried...
Mindfulness and lessons for children and adults during Covid19 are on high demand. I’ve always been passionate about the mental, social, and emotional state of kids. Naturally, I’m concerned about kids at home during the quarantine and how they’re...
It’s all good and fine to wear Pink as a community. Yet, on Pink Shirt Day 2020 there is so much more a school can do to teach about bullying and to improve students’ social behaviour. After all, wearing pink doesn’t actually make us kind! Bullying...
Walking to the pool today, an elderly man in a wheelchair wildly gestures to me. He’s pointing at the pavement, where a summer hat lies, and then points to a woman and her daughter walking away. I was shouldering my chair and a large bag, and quickly jumped to...
Hello! It’s Jodi, founder of Imperative Education. You know, ever since I can remember I’ve been interested in how people communicate… how relationships are formed. At McGill University, I studied Communications so that I could take this focus from intuition to fact, and from serious interest to passion. I decided to become a teacher, like so many, to make a difference and that initial goal hasn’t paled at all throughout the years