Dean Shareski interviews leaders from coast to coast to coast discussing innovation, change and the role leaders play in providing Canadian students with a world class education
Today Dean talks to University of Calgary professor Dr. Sarah Eaton about academic integrity in the age of generative AI, moving beyond a simple cheating/not-cheating frame toward “post-plagiarism,” inspired by plagiarism scholar Rebecca Moore Howard’s “Don’t Police, Just Teach” approach and Eaton’s early awareness of GPT-2 in 2020. They discuss contract cheating as a pre-ChatGPT concern, including K–12 marketing to parents, and emphasize prevention through relationships, open conversations, formative assessment, and supportive accountability despite grade-driven incentives. Eaton critiques AI moral panics and notes emerging issues like AI agents and AI glasses, arguing bans can conflict with accessibility needs. She questions the value of AI disclosure given pervasive AI in tools like grammar checkers and Google, critiques detection-tool “arms race” dynamics, and highlights ethical concerns (environment, bias, labor, copyright) alongside AI’s potential benefits for equity and inclusion.
00:00 AI Disclosure Doubts
01:12 Meet Dr Sarah Eaton
04:17 Post Plagiarism Origins
06:21 AI On The Radar
07:39 Contract Cheating Era
09:03 K12 Essay Mill Marketing
10:41 Teaching Integrity Not Fear
14:16 Prevention And Support
16:03 Grades And Incentives
23:11 Tech Panics And Wearables
25:22 AI Literacy Gaps
26:19 Ethics And Resistance
28:22 Why We Must Engage
31:03 Deepfakes And Duty
32:57 Assessment In Real Time
37:03 Disclosure Debate
42:44 Detection Arms Race
45:23 Accessibility And Equity
47:35 Wrap Up And Recommendations
27 Oct 2026
What's the Difference Between Good and Right?
Dean interviews BC superintendent Peter Jory about why leadership is hard and why the purpose of leadership is moving a system from “good” (easy, popular, pleasant, adult-preference) to “right” (ethical, effective, student-success focused). Jory shares examples such as resisting staff spending when budgets should prioritize students, and discusses the nuance of maintaining workplace joy while avoiding decisions driven by popularity. They examine inclusion and the continuum of student needs, including cases where students harm staff and the limits of supporting every student in-class all day. Jory explains BC’s data shift through the Framework for Enhancing Student Learning and tools like Ed Planning Insight for planning and instruction. They discuss proactive graduation tracking, its life impacts, improved Indigenous graduation rates (64% to 93%) through advocates and system changes, approaches to AI policy and student use, and leadership growth through feedback.
00:00 Good Versus Right
00:48 Leadership Is Hard
01:17 Meet Peter Jory
03:33 Defining Good And Right
04:48 Budget Choices For Kids
07:27 Nuance And Workplace Joy
10:40 Inclusion And Resistance
12:56 Continuum Of Student Needs
16:34 Data Tools In BC
20:58 Tracking Graduation Success
24:50 Boosting Indigenous Outcomes
28:26 Caring Adults Matter
29:20 Districts Facing AI
30:28 Building AI Guidelines
33:50 Authenticity and Ethics
35:04 AI at Work Reflections
36:26 Leadership Feedback Lessons
37:33 Leading Through Conflict
42:14 Formative Leadership Books
45:10 Unwinding with Baseball
46:07 Qualicum Hidden Gems
47:15 Closing Thanks
20 Oct 2026
Why Do We Have To Learn Math?
Dean interviews educator and author Sunil Singh about changing the narrative of mathematics from usefulness to human flourishing, including beauty, truth, justice, love, and play. Singh shares how math first “came alive” for him as a child, how his schooling was mostly benign, and how a grade-eight contest showed him the power of mathematical thinking. He explains why he quit classroom teaching as math became procedural and coded, and argues for humanizing math through history, storytelling, and meaningful problems that build patience for irresolution and create flow. Singh discusses proof, including a classroom task about expressing odd numbers as a prime plus a power of two, and addresses AI as cognitive offloading, emphasizing the irreplaceable teacher-student relationship and a return to pencil-and-paper thinking.
00:00 Rethinking Math Value
00:24 Math for Flourishing
03:04 Early Math Romance
06:26 Grade Eight Breakthrough
09:20 Becoming a Teacher
11:15 Why He Quit Teaching
15:50 Humanizing the Curriculum
19:53 Wellness and Patience
24:39 Proof and AI Era
28:03 Beauty Beyond Geometry
29:22 Perfect Numbers Explained
29:46 Mersenne Prime Formula
30:12 Odd Cubes Pattern
30:46 Why Perfect Numbers Matter
30:56 Teaching Math as Language
32:31 Future Skills Beyond Grades
34:11 AI in the Math Classroom
36:12 Slow Math Over Offloading
39:15 Content First Pedagogy
42:54 Flow Through Better Problems
45:18 Storytelling Across Disciplines
47:25 Books Music and Shows
52:27 Pickering Butter Chicken
54:23 Slow Movement Conclusion
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