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Leadership Voices – Kieran Egan, Why most education efforts are mediocre at best.

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Valerie Gowing

LVOur newest addition to the Leadership Voices series, presents Kieran Egan, Professor of Education at SFU. He talks about the state of education today. Please enjoy.

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So What’s Your Thing? by Lisa Eckmyn

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Refinery Leadership

I don’t recall how the conversation arose but I was hanging out on the couch with my kids and my husband last night. It was right before my kids bedtime, so an extended conversation was welcome, and we started to talk about what “our thing” was.

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Learning to play with Children’s Blocks by Jenny T.A. Nguyen

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Refinery Leadership

I believe that every person should be accepted as a unique individual, regardless of their colour, size, age, orientation, lifestyle, culture, education or any other differential that is but only one small aspect of their person.

Yet, the same courtesy is often hard to extend to myself.

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