I began this work more than a decade ago in the waning days of the Alberta Initiative for School Improvement. Even the name now feels like a relic — a reminder of a time when education in this province was driven by innovation and investment, not austerity and decline. Since then, we’ve done more with less, and then even more with nothing.

I’ve been here a while. But I no longer believe I’m a teacher.

To me, teaching has always meant hope; hope for growth, for learning, for the future. I’ve worked alongside incredible people who embody that hope. They give everything — emotional bandwidth, money, evenings, weekends, even their relationships with their own loved ones — because they believe in something better.

But, I’m not sure I have anything left to give.

Over the years, I’ve been bit

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