Superintendent Chris Kennedy’s Blog

• The Tutoring Revolution We Did Not See Coming December 15, 2025
  For years, there has been a quiet understanding in many high schools that success in certain courses, especially senior math and sciences, required something extra. Not more effort or better attendance, but a tutor. Parents would trade recommendations, students would quietly admit they needed one, and tutoring centres would advertise that “everyone needs help.” In […]
• 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 […]