Not a good day to read the comments.

Change and safety.

Students Montcalm Cougars led a beautiful moment of silence and walk this morning to honour and remember the Afzaal Family. #OurLondonFamily #ldnont

I took a risk with our opinion/argument writing unit (if you can even call it that because, you know, time), and I’m excited about the results. It’s the one thing I usually feel compelled to “standardize” because, you know, standardized testing. 🧵

Why don't you, a cisgender heterosexual person get a flag? Why don't you get a pride month? Let's imagine you are asking this truly in good faith and break it down. 1/

Harkness discussion with grade 12s in Writer's Craft on the course #EWC4C #EWC4U was brilliant, profound, meaningful today Montcalm Cougars - I have the best job!

Montcalm Cougars student in Writer's Craft makes puppets by hand, made a bunch of puppets during the pandemic, made Instagram Lives with Debbie Allen, wrote a hilarious episode involving his puppets (for his project), and made this guy for me and my classroom.

So many voices in this article - might be interesting to pull the quotations and make connections to themes of social justice, equality, representation, humanity in other course texts. Ss could also use them as writing prompts or #QFT focus to formulate questions. #windowsmirrors

All of these!

The course targeted at #UWaterloo offers a “philosophical analysis of issues relating to sex/gender.” As a small gesture of solidarity to those working in this field, we are offering a free digital copy of Shannon Dea’s Beyond the Binary (developed in connection with this course)

to anyone interested. We hope this will encourage others to explore gender studies and the philosophy of gender. Please visit sites.broadviewpress.com/beyondthebinary to obtain a copy.

Far too many popular strategies for teaching reading are not actually supported by research. We sifted through to find the ones that are most effective.

Please no grammar worksheets in #ENL1W

There have been wonderful outcomes at Adelaide & Queens in #ldnont Susan Stevenson - people have put food in empty bellies - people have been able to shower - people have had the dignity of a washroom - people have accessed life saving harm reduction supplies /1

A reminder.

There is a lot going on in the new grade 9 English curriculum that it was a chaotic move to drop it in June with the expectation of a September implementation. I'll get there. #ENL1W1 #onted