Equity
Equity means recognising that children do not begin from the same place, that access cannot be measured by sameness, and that justice requires schools to account for the forces that shape each student’s body, history, and daily life before they ever enter the classroom.
It is not a slogan or a metric but a commitment to material redress: to remove barriers, redistribute support, and design systems that meet students where they are—not to make them identical, but to make their flourishing possible.
In education, equity demands more than inclusive language or token gestures—it requires sustained structural change, a willingness to confront ableism, racism, gender bias, and poverty as live forces, and an unflinching dedication to ensuring that no child is punished for who they are, how they learn, or what they carry.
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The orange shirt I folded
I was folding laundry late one night, brain running on the kind of background grief that rarely quiets, when my hand closed around the orange shirt. I moved to set it aside—automatically, instinctively—because I remembered September was coming, school would be starting, and Orange Shirt Day would follow quickly after. That shirt would be needed…
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Flourishing as an ethical imperative
Like many of you, I caught CBC’s Ideas episode the other day, where philosopher Angie Hobbs spoke about the ancient Greek concept of eudaimonia—a term sometimes translated as happiness or welfare, but more richly understood as human flourishing. In a world flooded by crisis, it may seem indulgent or impractical to contemplate the good life,…
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15 red flags your child’s school is running the playbook on you
How to spot coercive proceduralism before it drains your energy, your trust, and your child’s future. You may have been advocating for your child for months—attending meetings, responding to emails, following every process they set out—yet the accommodations you discussed never seem to appear in the classroom. You might notice your child’s struggles at school…
