

A must read new book!
I am very excited to share with all of you a new book that I have been reading this week. “Troubling Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Education: Critical Perspectives,” Edited by Sandra D. Styres and Arlo Kempf. There is so much that I love about this new book! The book has a large variety of authors, providing a critical lens on reconcilation within edcuational spaces in Canada. It tells some hard truths about how difficult the work is and the challenges that educators


Moving from performative to accomplice...
Lee Maracle, "I would accept an apology from someone if they stepped on my foot, but not if they were still standing on my F@*%ing foot." This quote has me thinking about allyship and what it looks like. The question I get asked the most in my work is, “What can I do?” People are thinking, what can one person do to change what is happening in our larger system. I believe as educators we should be asking ourselves, what can I do to make sure the next generation is knowledgeab

"What about the Indigenous people?" What is missing in our learning?
As I continue this learning and unlearning of how I use an anti-colonial lens in teacher practice, I came across a book called, Betweener Autoethnographies: A path towards social justice. Chapter 5 of this book talks about decolonizing classrooms. Of course, this is where I start my reading. There was a story in this chapter that hit to the core of the problematic issues that arise in the colonial education system. In what follows is this story and my thoughts and connections