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Pure Joy & Teenagers

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I am sometimes asked by others what my favourite job has been in education.  I can honestly say that I’ve loved all of them — Teacher, Science Department Head, Vice-Principal, Principal, Director of Instruction, Assistant Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent and now Superintendent.

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I Loved Teaching Chemistry

But the one with the greatest Pure Joy has to be teaching — being in my own classroom and interacting with my students was awesome!  I was a ‘substitute’ teacher (now known as a TTOC) in my first year and then taught in 3 different schools for the next 9 years.  Those 10 years in the classroom at the beginning of my career were magical.

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Perspective is Everything!

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We all have an internal voice — that messenger who continually talks to us and us alone.  Mine tends to come around when I need to process stuff — when I’m trying to think about an appropriate pathway forward.  However, it does occasionally speak up like this:

“If people would just see things my way, I’m pretty sure things would move along much more quickly.  I’m a rational person, a calm person … someone who has a bunch of common sense. 

Come on people … focus!”

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The White Road Property & Community Engagement

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A triangle is the ONLY two dimensional polygon that cannot collapse or bend — it is surprisingly strong for its simple shape.  That’s its beauty —  all 3 sides work together to find strength.  A square – -a shape with just one more side — doesn’t have this strength. It will easily bend or collapse.

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A Triangle Easily Resists an Applied Force, but a Square Folds Like a Cheap Tent

The triangle is well known to engineers who use it ubiquitously in our world because of its elegance and surprising strength.  You can’t walk down the street without seeing triangles just about everywhere.

Construction Supports
Bridges
Roof Trusses

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