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Author: Debbie L. Kasman
Website: www.debbielkasman.com
Author Comment / Biography:
Debbie L. Kasman’s career in public school education in Canada spans nearly 30 years. Early in her career, she worked as an elementary classroom teacher, a teacher of the gifted, a special education resource teacher, and a special education consultant specializing in inclusive education. She later worked as an elementary school Vice-principal, Principal, and Assistant to the Superintendent for Special Education. More recently, Kasman has worked as an Interim Superintendent of Teaching and Learning, where she managed both the Curriculum and Special Education portfolios, and as a Student Achievement Officer with the Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat at the Ministry of Education in Ontario. Kasman also teaches online courses for Queen’s University in the Continuing Teacher Education Department. She holds a Master of Education degree from the Theory and Policy Studies Department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Kasman lives in Pickering, Canada.
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1. Waiting on the World to Change
November 15, 2013
Many of us are waiting for the world to change. We live our lives as complacent bystanders, as if the problems of the world are not our fault, as if they will somehow miraculously solve themselves. We shrug our shoulders when we hear that a billion people on the planet are starving, we look the ot...
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2. A World Gone Slightly Mad
November 09, 2013
The mayor of Toronto used crack cocaine and lied about it. The former director of the largest school board in Canada plagiarized other people’s work and lied about that too. A former deputy minister of education and tenured University of Toronto professor was arrested for authoring graphic child ...
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3. A Mother's Intuition
November 04, 2013
Like most mothers, I feel a deep connection to my son. A few years ago, I experienced “mother’s intuition” at its finest, in a strange and wonderful way. My son, Sam, was attending college in Boston and he called to say he wasn’t feeling well. What started out as a bad cold had progresse...
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4. A New Kind of Poverty
October 31, 2013
Recently I had the opportunity to hear Dr. Jean Clinton, infant, child and adolescent psychiatrist at McMaster University, speak. She says there is a new kind of poverty emerging in our country that has nothing to do with financial hardship. She calls it a “poverty of relationships” and she says w...
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5. Gratitude and Giggles
October 31, 2013
The universe works in mysterious ways and we may never understand it. Just last week, I had a wonderful reminder of this very thing. I own two cars. I don’t like owning two cars but I need two cars. I need a car to drive in Ontario, and life is easier for my son when he has a car to dri...
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6. Different Ways We Name Potential
October 20, 2013
We are all unique individuals, and therefore we are also unique in our abilities. We each have hidden potential, but because we are all so different our potential plays out differently in each of us. As a result, we’ve developed all kinds of different names for human potential and different ways o...
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