Superintendent Chris Kennedy’s Blog

• Educating for a Superintelligent Tomorrow April 22, 2025
  How do we equip young people for a world that might advance beyond our expectations? Mat Balez is a local West Vancouver parent. We have had several great conversations in recent years — and just last week, we sat down to talk about Replit, the future of coding, and how fast the world is changing […]
• Looking North: A uniquely Canadian path for education in an AI-rich world April 7, 2025
  There’s a moment right now—an opening that Canada, and more specifically Canadian education, has an opportunity to seize. As we watch political discourse in the United States grow increasingly polarized, with education often pulled backwards into culture wars and ideology-driven mandates, it’s hard not to reflect on the different tone we can set here in […]
• Breaking News: Track and Field Without Running? A New Era Begins! April 1, 2025
  Regular readings here know my love for high school sports and innovation.  This is why today is such a particularly exciting day for me. Following rigorous analysis of 427 track meets, 217 scraped knees, and 2,341 cases of “excessive athletic enthusiasm,” schools across our district are implementing a groundbreaking “No Running Rule” in track and […]