Royan Lee is a teacher leader in the York Region District School Board, Ontario, Canada. Currently an intermediate literacy teacher in Richmond Hill, he has experience teaching all elementary grades. Royan’s current professional preoccupations include contemporary literacy and assessment practice, social media in the classroom, and passion based learning. When he isn’t blogging, reading colleagues’ blogs, or tweeting about learning, you can find Royan doing wonderfully mundane things with his three children and beloved wife Janet. He is overly obsessed with food, and is pleased when his Macbook, iPad, iPhone are in sync.

August 26th, 2011 at 15:58
What a great post. Teachers DO mean everything sometimes. School was an oasis of calm for some of my students. I wanted it to be a place for them to be happy.
I love Mac synchronicity too. I can’t wait for the iCloud coming in fall, when I can at last sync my mail and calendars too. Bliss!