Kyle McKillop
@kylemckillop.bsky.social
He/him. Secondary literacy helping teacher, poet, sharer, decolonizer. Past president BCTELA, SETA, RCLAS. May contain gluten &/or joy.
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Kyle McKillop
@kylemckillop.bsky.social
· Nov 19
"Go Back to Your Country": award-winning student spoken word poem from LA Matheson Secondary
YouTube video by Kyle McKillop
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This amazing spoken word piece, "Go Back to Your Country", was written and performed by grade 9s in Matheson's grade 9 Arts Integrated Module. It is soooooo good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAi...
Jaylene Tyme, live at the @bctela.bsky.social conference: a surthrivor!
October 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Jaylene Tyme, live at the @bctela.bsky.social conference: a surthrivor!
Teachers of #bced! The @bctela.bsky.social conference has a magnificent lineup this year, with a keynote from Billy-Ray Belcourt, drag with Jaylene Tyme, and two dozen workshops that will deepen your K-12 ELA practice! Join ussssss!
www.bctelaconference.ca
www.bctelaconference.ca
Event Website
www.bctelaconference.ca
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Teachers of #bced! The @bctela.bsky.social conference has a magnificent lineup this year, with a keynote from Billy-Ray Belcourt, drag with Jaylene Tyme, and two dozen workshops that will deepen your K-12 ELA practice! Join ussssss!
www.bctelaconference.ca
www.bctelaconference.ca
What does Reconciliation mean to you? Check out what Indigenous educators in Surrey Schools have to say! #sd36learn
surreyschoolsone.ca/trc/
surreyschoolsone.ca/trc/
Truth and Reconciliation Week | Surrey Schools ONE
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October 3, 2025 at 3:51 AM
What does Reconciliation mean to you? Check out what Indigenous educators in Surrey Schools have to say! #sd36learn
surreyschoolsone.ca/trc/
surreyschoolsone.ca/trc/
Join us for this year's @bctela.bsky.social conference this October! In the morning Dr. Joaquin Munoz and I will share our learning progressions for engaging with Indigenous topics, and in the afternoon Dr. Kessey Jemmott and I will dig deep into the joy & decolonizing power of creative nonfiction!
September 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Join us for this year's @bctela.bsky.social conference this October! In the morning Dr. Joaquin Munoz and I will share our learning progressions for engaging with Indigenous topics, and in the afternoon Dr. Kessey Jemmott and I will dig deep into the joy & decolonizing power of creative nonfiction!
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Gather Around! Story at Resistance, Story as Hope!
Register now for BCTELA's Oct. 2025 conference!!
bctela.ca/conferences/
Register now for BCTELA's Oct. 2025 conference!!
bctela.ca/conferences/
Conferences - BC Teachers of English Language Arts
BC Teachers of English Language Arts October 2025 Conference!! Gather Around: Story As Resistance, Story As Hope Date: October 23-24, 2025 Thursday night it’s showtime with a twist! Join us for a p...
bctela.ca
September 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Gather Around! Story at Resistance, Story as Hope!
Register now for BCTELA's Oct. 2025 conference!!
bctela.ca/conferences/
Register now for BCTELA's Oct. 2025 conference!!
bctela.ca/conferences/
If you're looking for *free* rubrics, ELA course plans, conferencing docs, literacy support, links to powerful contemporary poems, and more, check out my class site: mistermckillop.wordpress.com/for-teachers/.
#ela
#ela
For Teachers
Useful files for teachers!
mistermckillop.wordpress.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
If you're looking for *free* rubrics, ELA course plans, conferencing docs, literacy support, links to powerful contemporary poems, and more, check out my class site: mistermckillop.wordpress.com/for-teachers/.
#ela
#ela
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Day 7 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club!
We know you have some important thoughts we can learn from in response to these questions. Contribute to our thinking in the comments section below.
We know you have some important thoughts we can learn from in response to these questions. Contribute to our thinking in the comments section below.
August 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Day 7 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club!
We know you have some important thoughts we can learn from in response to these questions. Contribute to our thinking in the comments section below.
We know you have some important thoughts we can learn from in response to these questions. Contribute to our thinking in the comments section below.
Prompts! Writing stations! (Though they choose their own destination; no one hits all the stations.) Exemplars and discussions! Visiting poets! Modelling and co-writing! Drafts! In-the-moment feedback!
Day 6 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club!
Share some ideas colleagues might be able to use in their classrooms!
Share some ideas colleagues might be able to use in their classrooms!
August 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Prompts! Writing stations! (Though they choose their own destination; no one hits all the stations.) Exemplars and discussions! Visiting poets! Modelling and co-writing! Drafts! In-the-moment feedback!
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Day 5 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club!
Let's learn a bit about you...share your reflections in the comments section below.
Let's learn a bit about you...share your reflections in the comments section below.
August 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Day 5 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club!
Let's learn a bit about you...share your reflections in the comments section below.
Let's learn a bit about you...share your reflections in the comments section below.
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Day 4 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club
Going big with this prompt. Share your thoughts in the comments section and support conversation by replying to others.
Going big with this prompt. Share your thoughts in the comments section and support conversation by replying to others.
August 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Day 4 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club
Going big with this prompt. Share your thoughts in the comments section and support conversation by replying to others.
Going big with this prompt. Share your thoughts in the comments section and support conversation by replying to others.
My favourite definition of poetry: intense language. So there’s an intensity to prose poetry, a densification with strong verbs and nouns. There’s often a focus on showing over telling, leaving the reader to infer. A GOOD prose poem takes us somewhere we didn’t expect.
Day 3 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club
Share your ideas below in the comment section and don't forget to respond or reply to others. 🙂 Love this learning community!
Share your ideas below in the comment section and don't forget to respond or reply to others. 🙂 Love this learning community!
August 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
My favourite definition of poetry: intense language. So there’s an intensity to prose poetry, a densification with strong verbs and nouns. There’s often a focus on showing over telling, leaving the reader to infer. A GOOD prose poem takes us somewhere we didn’t expect.
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Day 3 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club
Share your ideas below in the comment section and don't forget to respond or reply to others. 🙂 Love this learning community!
Share your ideas below in the comment section and don't forget to respond or reply to others. 🙂 Love this learning community!
August 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Day 3 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club
Share your ideas below in the comment section and don't forget to respond or reply to others. 🙂 Love this learning community!
Share your ideas below in the comment section and don't forget to respond or reply to others. 🙂 Love this learning community!
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Day 2 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club
Share your thoughts in the comments section and please also respond to others' contributions!
Share your thoughts in the comments section and please also respond to others' contributions!
August 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Day 2 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club
Share your thoughts in the comments section and please also respond to others' contributions!
Share your thoughts in the comments section and please also respond to others' contributions!
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Day 1 of 8 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club! This collection of poems is a powerful read! Please respond to the quote, the question or the reflections below in the comment section.
August 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Day 1 of 8 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club! This collection of poems is a powerful read! Please respond to the quote, the question or the reflections below in the comment section.
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Happy August everyone! A few short days until our 2025 summer book club chats begin for NDN Coping Mechanisms by Billy-Ray Belcourt, our conference keynote! Questions to provoke your thinking and responses start August 20th and go until the 27th!
We are eagerly anticipating your contributions!!
We are eagerly anticipating your contributions!!
August 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Happy August everyone! A few short days until our 2025 summer book club chats begin for NDN Coping Mechanisms by Billy-Ray Belcourt, our conference keynote! Questions to provoke your thinking and responses start August 20th and go until the 27th!
We are eagerly anticipating your contributions!!
We are eagerly anticipating your contributions!!
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Once a month I give this anonymous Google Form survey to all my classes + then turn around and share the results with them the following week
Adapted from what @jimmayers.bsky.social does in his room, having this monthly "pulse check" has been a game-changer
(Especially the debrief conversations!)
Adapted from what @jimmayers.bsky.social does in his room, having this monthly "pulse check" has been a game-changer
(Especially the debrief conversations!)
July 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Once a month I give this anonymous Google Form survey to all my classes + then turn around and share the results with them the following week
Adapted from what @jimmayers.bsky.social does in his room, having this monthly "pulse check" has been a game-changer
(Especially the debrief conversations!)
Adapted from what @jimmayers.bsky.social does in his room, having this monthly "pulse check" has been a game-changer
(Especially the debrief conversations!)
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Since @marcusluther.bsky.social has been making his teaching practices explicit, I want to share how I teach theme. It’s not new, but it’s the best AND it’s a sure-fire way to tell if a student has used AI at this point.
July 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Since @marcusluther.bsky.social has been making his teaching practices explicit, I want to share how I teach theme. It’s not new, but it’s the best AND it’s a sure-fire way to tell if a student has used AI at this point.
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Join us for Poetry in the Park July 16th with features Cecily Nicholson and Rita Wong, followed by open mic and host @jessicaleemcmillan.com. 6:30pm Queen's Park Bandshell.
rclas.com/recurring/po...
rclas.com/recurring/po...
July 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Join us for Poetry in the Park July 16th with features Cecily Nicholson and Rita Wong, followed by open mic and host @jessicaleemcmillan.com. 6:30pm Queen's Park Bandshell.
rclas.com/recurring/po...
rclas.com/recurring/po...
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Now Hiring: Poetry Editor! Position begins August 2025. For the full posting, please see our website. Apply before July 22, 2025: ex-puritan.ca/news/now-hir...
NOW HIRING: POETRY EDITOR
The Ex-Puritan is hiring a new poetry editor!
ex-puritan.ca
July 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Now Hiring: Poetry Editor! Position begins August 2025. For the full posting, please see our website. Apply before July 22, 2025: ex-puritan.ca/news/now-hir...
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Something I love about having made a vision document for each of the classes I teach back in at the beginning of the school year?
The ability to look at it when the school year concludes as a lens to understand what went well and how I need to do better:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The ability to look at it when the school year concludes as a lens to understand what went well and how I need to do better:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
24-25 Course Vision - AP Literature
24-25 Course Vision - AP Literature In order to go somewhere, you usually have to have a clear vision of where you want to go. So ahead of a new school year, I want to take the time to lay out the sev...
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June 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Something I love about having made a vision document for each of the classes I teach back in at the beginning of the school year?
The ability to look at it when the school year concludes as a lens to understand what went well and how I need to do better:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The ability to look at it when the school year concludes as a lens to understand what went well and how I need to do better:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
DOCTOR Kessey! She did it!!!😍😍😍
May 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
DOCTOR Kessey! She did it!!!😍😍😍
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Arc’s Poem of the Year 2025 Readers’ Choice Award is open for voting! Which shortlisted poem is your favourite? Read the standout finalist poems and cast your vote today! buff.ly/3DLvn2D
April 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Arc’s Poem of the Year 2025 Readers’ Choice Award is open for voting! Which shortlisted poem is your favourite? Read the standout finalist poems and cast your vote today! buff.ly/3DLvn2D
“…keep going…”
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“…keep going…”
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my book, a body more tolerable, is out in the public early! WHAT A TIME!
March 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
my book, a body more tolerable, is out in the public early! WHAT A TIME!
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From 'Midnight & Other Poems' (2009)
—Mourid Barghouti [tr. Radwa Ashour]
#poetry #poem #poems #palestine
—Mourid Barghouti [tr. Radwa Ashour]
#poetry #poem #poems #palestine
March 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
From 'Midnight & Other Poems' (2009)
—Mourid Barghouti [tr. Radwa Ashour]
#poetry #poem #poems #palestine
—Mourid Barghouti [tr. Radwa Ashour]
#poetry #poem #poems #palestine