Rick Pardo, M.Sc.

I've experienced this myself and seen it happen in my students. Do you happen to have a journal article reference for this superego effect?

Canada Just Checked Trump’s Ego: Carney’s Super-Corridor Sets Stage for a Global Power Shift Without America The Maple Curtain Drops: Carney’s Corridor will turn Canada into a Global Superpower as America Watches Helplessly

Here's a different take '...With Carney at the helm, Canada is building the railroads, the deep water ports, the infrastructure, and the international alliances to own the top of the world' without America.

deanblundell.substack.com/p/canada-jus...

Here's another opinion to consider - 'With Carney at the helm, Canada is building railroads, deep water ports, infrastructure, and international alliances to own the top of the world'

deanblundell.substack.com/p/canada-jus...

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

5/5 #elbowsup

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch

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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

3/5

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;

2/5

To my fellow 🇨🇦 and 🇺🇸 friends. Kipling's IF seems appropriate for the double plus ungood times:

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

1/5

Alcohol is being taken off the shelves in Canada and sent back to American liquor companies.

It’s consignment. They don’t pay for it until it has been sold.

The trust that took 2 world wars and generations to build is gone with one election. It will take generations of good deeds to rebuild.

When you sleep next to an elephant you keep one eye open - you never know when they're going to go rogue.
2/2

I'm old enough to remember railing against then 🇨🇦PM Mulroney's free trade agreement with the USA. Irish eyes were smiling at a 'sing along' with Reagan as Canada turned trade away from East-West and towards North-South. Always wary of the elephant.

1/2

YouTube video by 22 Minutes Wayne Gretzky's the Great One, but is he a great Canadian? | This Hour Has 22 Minutes

22 minutes take on Gretzky situation nails it. Elbows up 🇨🇦
youtu.be/_2xzQojmf5E?...

I stand with 🇨🇦. Elbows up!!

And therein lies the problem.... learning, aka being open to new ideas, is essential to good teaching.
If your experience as a student is passive, accepting whatever teachers give you, then, ya teaching is totally different.
If you're an active critical thinker then new things aren't a threat.

Why is it easier to get a student to write a poem than to convince a teacher bestie to use your time-saving techniques? Because we’re teachers, not learners!
#EduSky

Prussian factory-style schools caught on in the West as the spread of industrialization created a need for compliant, literate workers. Industrialists led the charge to adopt universal education in the US, UK, and elsewhere in Europe.

What is school for is the greatest question we need to answer.

Public education started in early 1800's Prussia in response to industrialization
1. Compliance - submission to authority and norms
2. Judgement - sorting kids into job/career (kids with inheritance go to private schools)
3. Day care - parents can work (some 2-4 part-time jobs) to make more for 1%

So... feel to be conscious, be conscious to be aware, be aware to observe, observe to discover, discover to question, question to think, think to have ideas, have ideas to get into a groove, and get into a groove to get stuck in a rut.
To get out of a rut find reverse.

Ruts begin as grooves
Grooves begin as ideas
Ideas begin as thoughts
Thoughts begin as questions
Questions begin as discoveries
Discoveries begin as observations
Observations begin as awareness
Awareness begins as consciousness
Consciousness begins as feeling

Ruts are visble from the outside
Grooves are visible once inside
Ruts shape
Grooves inform
Ruts begin as grooves
Grooves begin as ideas
Stuck in a rut
Go with a groove
A rut saps
A groove invigorates
Ruts are hazards
Grooves are welcome
Avoid ruts
Seek grooves

Ruts and Grooves
In a rut time drags
In a groove time flows
In a rut lies despair
In a groove lies hope
A rut controls
A groove liberates
A rut is a trap
A groove is a choice
A rut feels safe
A groove feels risky

Hey Jamie. Have you tried the autotracker function in Tracker from physlets.org/tracker ? It can be used online or downloaded.
Maybe more complicated than you're looking for

Thanks for sharing. It's now on my reading list. Love the premise.

"As Canadian as possible under the circumstances'"
It's cheeky but captures what Canadians are about. We do the best we can with what we have in the moment and then live with the results. Sure, we may grumble about the outcome but most of us carry on and find our way one day at a time.

"As American as Apple Pie'"
A few years ago there was a CBC radio show called Morning Side. They asked listeners to complete the phrase "As Canadian as ..."
Heather Scott answered the challenge with "... possible under the circumstances."

Rethinking Public Education that prepares for life.
We affirm the primacy of responsive teaching and learning.
We are most interested in your thoughts on the attached belief statements.

If you value education that puts:

Curiosity over compliance
Equity over efficiency
Collaboration over competition
Learning over teaching

Check out SCH(school)OOL to see how a district made it happen
www.tvdsb.ca/en/our-board...

Collaboration over competition.
Make school more about sharing ideas, awareness, and development - understand that we are in this together and together we are stronger.
Make school less about winning and reducing the worth of a human being to their mark or GPA.

Fairness over efficiency.
Make school more about treasuring difference and being fair and equitable for all and
less about standardized 'tests' and assembly line processing students

Creativity over compliance.
Make school more about stoking the embers of enthusiastic creative beings bursting with possibilities and
less about breaking spirits into still, quiet, rule followers nursing grievance and resentment