Superintendent Chris Kennedy’s Blog

• Steadiness as Strategy February 24, 2026
  In my year-end reflection last December, I found myself dwelling on something that might seem unremarkable: there wasn’t a lot of drama in BC education this past year. No major controversies. No political firestorms. No headlines. And I wrote: that’s a good thing. In a year when AI, politics, and social media all seemed determined […]
• 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 […]