If you have access to community notes, we’ve moved into the “noting the notes” stage quickly…

2.5 years later…. It’s still intentional. The Breakdown

How many is too many? So many it’s worth going on strike for. Those “stats” are students. Are those Supports and Services ENTITLEMENTS? Or have we privatized enough to make them privileges? So. How does ASBA define those terms? Alberta Teachers' Association ? Demetrios Nicolaides 🇨🇦 🇨🇾 ?

I was going to be brave, but we’re all on my health insurance. I was going to be brave, but I have a mortgage. I was going to be brave, but have you seen what college costs now? I was going to be brave, but my stock options haven’t vested yet.

Alberta Public Education Thought of the day: Why do professional recommendations not result in guaranteed services, even after all procedures are followed? Because the budget is set before the needs are identified. Because the province sets budgets annually, using

Public Education in Alberta Thought of the day (b) Five Whys Analysis 1. Why do professional recommendations not result in guaranteed services for students, even after all procedures are followed? → Because the budget is set before the needs are identified. 2. Why is the

99.45% Of YOUR employees Voted to move toward job action over working conditions. That definitely feels like YOU are failing at sections 11, 33, and 52 of the Education Act. Legal Counsel eh? You know that 💯% the ministry will lay blame on board misallocating funds #abed

Nope There is no teacher autonomy. Here we call it site-based decision making, differentiation, and responsive programming. AKA: doing the best we can with what we have. If the teachers do strike… it will be for autonomy and the ability (maybe even permission) to follow

If paying the humans to deliver the service is preventing you from providing them with the supports and services and resources and tools and materials to DO the job, you aren’t overpaying the employees, you’re withholding the other stuff. This is from the Hansard Transcripts:

Hey ASBA time to own this. When a politician tells voters that teachers or libraries are "getting in between the relationship between kids and their parents (with some heavy implications there), and you say nothing? You’re not neutral. You’re enabling that smear with

Did that plan include 95% of your instructional employees voting to strike over working conditions? The Breakdown

It’s campaign season. Time to start caring. We should rebrand election season as “job performance review” or “job interview” season. Aren’t 95% of their instructional employees going on strike soon? We need spreadsheets of their spreadsheets. All of them. #abpoli #abed

Hey Demetrios Nicolaides 🇨🇦 🇨🇾 Imagine a child who uses a wheelchair. The law requires the school to build a safe ramp so she can access the classroom like everyone else. For a child with a diagnosed reading disability, daily, expert reading instruction is that ramp. If the school (or

We’re facing the first provincial strike since Ralph Klein - over 2 decades ago. Remember: Do it For the Kids = Learning Conditions ARE Working Condtions = A minimum “standard of care” applicable to EVERY student whether they are public, private, charter, etc. Set the floor,

This ministerial order is an accusation of misconduct. The rules for school libraries and resources already existed. That’s why there is a university degree for library sciences. The inter-school databases are solid, you can see how many copies of what are available in other

I did a thing.

Just Sayin... IYKYK #abpoli

Where’s the money going!!? Well, telling you that the information is available is one thing, but here is how to dig deeper on your own. There are no secret stashes in coffers… there is a delicate balance between the rules of “you cannot save for a rainy day” and “you cannot