What's Gone Well Today

Neighbourhood building

September 16, 2014 · Leave a comment

The penny drops — neighbourhood improves!| One of the students renting a house in our neighbourhood who I met last week while updating Block Watch info, sent this very thoughtful email to me and wanted it passed on to their

Classroom moments

Community musical production by high school class

September 16, 2014 · Leave a comment

A talented English class took on the writing and production of a musical stage play about the coal mining history of their town. Jack wanted to involve teaching, learning and somehow include more people than just the class members. To

Conversations

Successes with behavioural change in energy reduction

September 15, 2014 · Leave a comment

Dramatic and effective communication strategies to allow and encourage commercial tenants to monitor and reduce their energy consumption.

Classroom moments

Inviting Alice Munro to an English class

September 11, 2014 · Leave a comment

When a young English teacher read about a new writer receiving a Governor General’s Award for literature for her first book, he wrote her to ask if she’d drive two hours to his classroom in Nanaimo and be interviewed by

What's Gone Well Today

A son’s leaving home for the first time

September 2, 2014 · Leave a comment

A son’s journey after an uncle got him a job with an aviation company that included homelessness but ended with being a sought-after employee. His mother’s counsel was, “Stay with it, you don’t know where it’s going to take you.”