Superintendent Chris Kennedy’s Blog

• What a Changing Profession Is Trying to Tell Us December 1, 2025
  There is a shift happening in our schools, and you can feel it. You see it in the staffroom, in the parking lot, in the subtle ways younger teachers talk about their work. They draw clearer lines between school and home, speaking about boundaries and balance with an ease that still makes some of us […]
• Is Prompt Engineering Really the New Future Skill? November 19, 2025
  Last week, I sat in an education conference listening to a keynote speaker who was absolutely unequivocal about it: students must learn prompt engineering or they will be left behind. The speaker was passionate, convincing even, about how this was the essential skill for the next generation. And as I sat there, I found myself […]
• The Human Half: AI, the OECD, and the Future of Educational Leadership November 12, 2025
  Inspired by the recent Learning Forward BC conversation on human flourishing and AI. Last week, I spent three hours tweaking a PowerPoint presentation I already had help with. At the same time, I had to decline a visit to an elementary class exploring AI tools. The irony? While I was perfecting slides, they were shaping […]