Edutalks with Vince Hill
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EduTalks with Vince Hill is a dedicated space for educators, leaders, and anyone passionate about teaching and learning. I share practical advice, reflections on effective pedagogy, evidence-based approaches to assessment, and essential readings.
Are we losing kids to devices? Especially in the classroom.
The Screens We Handed Them
Notes from a principal watching Europe roll back the devices we were told couldn't be rolled back
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Important story about the separatist approach.
Heritage Is Not a Shield
What the debate gets wrong about who gets to speak for Alberta First Nations
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It is not in nature to swear generally, but WTF!!! It is diabolical, evil, despicable, disgusting, and I’m deeply offended. As a person, who grew up on a reserve until I was 8 1/2, a father who is native, who has 4 degrees, and went to post secondary for 11 years on my own dime, I’m offended!
Scroll through Facebook for five minutes and you’ll see exactly what it looks like when a population hasn’t practiced those habits. We don’t have a shortage of opinions. We have a shortage of people who know how to test one.
What Mr. McRae Knew That Many of Us Didn’t
Social studies keeps losing kids by Monday. The Four Question Method is built to address that.
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And expanded version from last week in response to a hardcore libertarian debating my essay.
The Words Everyone Uses and Almost Nobody Can Define
Neoliberalism, libertarianism, and the strange hybrid running Alberta
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The libertarian ideology is gaining traction in Alberta. It’s already been tried in history, why are we trying it again?
Freedom From Each Other
If this ideology has already failed before, why is Alberta reaching for it again
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Just read Douglas Murray’s book this week, thought I would share the key points while they are still fresh in my mind as they relate to the referendum and immigration.
Immigration Without the Noise
What Alberta's Referendum Debate Keeps Missing
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This is an extra this week. Felt in needed to write about it while it’s still current.
The Four Hour and Forty Four Minute Binge
What a Media Diet of Grievance and Suspicion Is Doing to This Province of Alberta
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Thoughts about what is driving the Christian Nationalist movement in Alberta.
Alberta Is Choosing a Story America Already Told
Trust breaks in a headline. It only rebuilds one relationship at a time.
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Talking about teaching and learning this morning. What connects and what doesn’t.
Emotion Is Learning
What neuroscience says about the teachers we remember and the ones we don't
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I usually write about education, but this piece is about something else entirely. It doesn’t mention Danielle Smith, the referendum, or the separatist movement once. I think it’s just as important for us to understand right now.
Five Dollars, Since 1899
How an Alberta First Nation's lawsuit exposes a century of broken treaty promises
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I was watching Danielle Smith on Real Talk with Ryan Jespersen, and she explained her immigration referendum questions the way she explains everything: calmly, in complete sentences, with numbers ready. No slurs. No sneering. Just a premier walking through categories of residency status.
Permission to Hate, Plausible Deniability
How a premier builds a permission structure without ever giving an order.
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I was sitting here thinking about the importance of school culture. It's an honest look, and probably not something we like to look closely at, because, in truth, many of us in leadership have failed along the way in creating sustainable school culture. Let me know what you think?
What the School Culture Keeps
Why good programs vanish with the people who built them, and what actually survives.
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I was having a conversation with a colleague, who was explaining they feel they don't have the words to affirm and acknowledge adequately. I replied, I too felt I didn't possess the skills until I came across the Virtues Project. The change was profound and life changing. I
The Language I Never Learned
Why Naming Goodness in Others Matters More Than We Think
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My response to a parents email asking for better communication from the teachers.
Feedback That Actually Works: Why Getting Student Work Back Quickly Matters
A conversation about assessment, trust, and what Alberta families deserve to know
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My thoughts about educational leadership and some of my experiences.
The Leaders We Remember (And the Ones We Survived)
Who acknowledges the acknowledgers? A reflection on superintendents, after a night of service awards.
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My reflections on the state of Alberta drawing from the prodigal son parable.
The Resentful Son: Alberta’s Politics of Inherited Grievance
Alberta is not the victim of Confederation. It is the product of it.
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My usual education weekend piece about an issue in schools.
The Suspension Reflex
When Consequences Feel Like Action But Aren't
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