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...
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...
I feel like I berate myself harder than other people berate themselves. Naturally, I don’t really have any way to know this for sure, but it certainly feels like that to me. Lying awake, sleepless, listening to the incessant mind chatter hanging onto one mistake I...
I’m the first one to say that profound and lasting learning usually takes place when we are uncomfortable, forced to step outside our comfort zones. Well, having just returned from a week up in Nass Valley, BC, I’ve lived that statement. To be honest,...
This blog is for anyone, young or older, who is being mistreated. Let’s get right to it and first determine if the person who is mistreating you can actually be labeled a bully. Is there an imbalance of power between the two of you? Does the person use their...
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