Superintendent Chris Kennedy’s Blog

• 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 […]
• Beyond the Score: Can AI Make Literacy Screeners More Human? November 4, 2025
  Across Canada, and in many other parts of the world, literacy screening is having a moment. There is broad agreement that we need to be better at identifying students who may be at risk, and that we need to do this earlier. The push toward more consistent and universal literacy screeners makes a lot of […]
• Baseball, the Blue Jays, and the Classroom October 23, 2025
  Tomorrow night, as the Blue Jays take the field for their first World Series game in 32 years, I find myself thinking about time, how it moves, how we mark it, and how certain moments seem to hold more than others. As I write, The Mighty Rio Grande by the band This Will Destroy You […]