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About Me

Location:
Canada, Edmonton
Current organization:
Progressive Academy
Current role:
Executive Director
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
Personalized authentic education
I am:
Educator/Teacher, Entrepreneur, Parent
Languages:
English
My website links:
Progressive Academy
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  • A comment on Talk: David Binder: The arts festival revolution

    Nov 21 2012: Awesome talk. We need to get more festivals like this happening in Edmonton. Anyone out there want to help get this going?
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    A comment on Talk: Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement

    Oct 20 2011: This is an amazing talk! Thank you for the inspiration. In Alberta we now see young people wasting six to ten years of their lives studying all sorts of nonsense before they are allowed to work on the floor. This must change. We need these young people to find out how professional they can be when they are still young.

  • A comment on Talk: Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science

    Oct 2 2011: Love this talk.

  • A comment on Talk: Bob Thurman: We can be Buddhas

    Sep 4 2011: Love this talk! We can all learn something here.

  • A reply on Conversation: How can we empower kids to reshape the education system? *A TEDActive Education Project Question*

    Apr 17 2011: We have some great trade schools in Alberta, but somehow our culture has created a caste system based around education and time spent in school/college/university.

  • A reply on Conversation: How can we empower kids to reshape the education system? *A TEDActive Education Project Question*

    Apr 17 2011: I agree with you Tony. In my view our failure to involve our children and youth in authentic and meaningful responsibilities is the underlying problem. To solve this we give them all sorts of courses to try to replace that involvement. This adds years and years to their "education", without connecting them to the environment where they will put their knowledge and skills to use. Because they are not allowed to participate in a meaningful way they find what we want them to learn meaningless, and many just slough it off and find their own way. This situation continues right through university - if the post secondary schools keep adding courses to what students have to learn to graduate, pretty soon our graduates will be senior citizens before they are put to work.
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    A comment on Conversation: Who do I contact about joining the learning and education revolution?

    Apr 16 2011: You don't have to move anywhere to pursue opportunity to participate in the learning revolution. Change is needed everywhere, and recognition for the need of change is the only prerequisite to become involved. Keep talking about it, working with kids in the best way you know how and try to bring non-educators into the conversation. For me becoming involved meant starting a school myself (as a mom not as a teacher). We have been operating now for 28 years with innovative and creative programs - solving problems one student at a time. It really takes just listing to the kids, inding out what they want to learn, and then finding ways they can learn it. In Alberta, Canada we now have Alberta Education working hard for change with "Inspiring Eduction". For the first time in 28 years I am encouraged that educational reform will happen.
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    A comment on Talk: Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes

    Dec 20 2010: This is a great talk! When education connects to real life, real people and real problems we start to see real students. Thanks Diana.

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