Kyle McKillop is past president of the Surrey School District's Secondary ELA Local Specialists Association (LSA) and the current president of the BC Teachers of English Language Arts (BCTELA) association. In this conversation we discuss what this year has been like in the Surrey School District, the district with the highest number of COVID exposures in the province. We talk about how this year has impacted his students and teaching practices, what the quarter system has looked like, and what next year may hold. Along the way we touch on systemic racism in literature selections and the power of community connection through the LSA & PSA structure for Secondary subject area specialists.  

Links mentioned in this episode: 

BCTF PSA Groups: https://bctf.ca/psas.aspx

BCTELA Website: https://bctela.ca/

Surrey English Language Arts LSA: https://surreyenglishta.wordpress.com/ 

Kyle's Website: https://mistermckillop.wordpress.com/

Kyle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KyleMcKillop

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