Thoughts, stories and ideas by Lois CP, VSB Trustee
Lois is a believer in a school system that grows our children's bodies and brains strong and their hearts gentle. Mum to two boys. Green Trustee for Vancouver School Board. Opinions are her own.
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Community Building With Intention
I write here about some key parts to making our community of landowners [http://littlemountaincohousing.ca] (hah) thrive. In particular, these are valuable pieces that could be used...
The Downside of Empathy
This Invisibilia podcast [http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/382451600/entanglement] talks about all manners of how humans & other matter are entangled with each other. Spoiler: human...
Communication & Collaboration (EFI Hudson & LRFP Related)
There's a perception that trustees make decisions in the board room in isolation; we only read reports and see spreadsheets, and if only we knew how important such and such a thing were (or if only we cared) we would make decisions that aligned with the results they're asking for.
Week 2 and Cavell
The staff is in the midst of working on a specific current issue, amongst other regularly scheduled work that they were supposed to do. I'm trying to wrap my head around all the moving pieces and don't know my path forward yet.
Cohousing Project Update
A friend told me it's been close to a year since my last update on the Little Mountain Cohousing project [http://littlemountaincohousing.ca], sent via barely-coherent...