Superintendent Chris Kennedy’s Blog

• The Educated Citizen, Revisited February 3, 2026
  In December 2011, I wrote a blog post asking whether British Columbia’s 1989 definition of the Educated Citizen still held up. The question felt almost rhetorical. Despite two decades of change, the document remained remarkably relevant. Here we are, fourteen years later, and I find myself returning to that same question with fresh urgency. Not […]
• The Persistence of Yes January 20, 2026
  This is Post #500. Writing that sentence feels both surreal and deeply satisfying. More than anything, these posts have taught me that leadership and life are sustained by one simple word: yes. That yes began more than fifteen years ago, uncertain and small. When I pressed “publish” on my very first entry, I had no […]
• In Praise of Assistance (And the Myth of the Unassisted Writer) January 13, 2026
  I have been thinking a lot about assistance lately. Who gets it, who does not, and why we suddenly get moralistic about it the moment the assistance comes from AI. The spark for this post is Nick Potkalitsky’s Substack essay, “In Praise of Assistance.” It is one of those pieces that does not just add […]