An interesting read, given my experience last week in an FI junior learning space. When asked to generate ideas, students struggled - anyone have an oral activity to practice idea generating for writing? DDSB K-8 Literacy/Numeracy Team hubs.la/H0ZXdqz0

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What Does Anti-oppressive Mathematics Education Look Like? by Jason To is chillin’ on BlueSky (@mrjasonto.com) Check it out LIVE! at the Make Math Moments Virtual Summit! Registration is FREE: summit.makemathmoments.com/talks/what-doe… #MMMSummit2021 #mathchat #edchat

Today is National Indigenous Veterans Day. In #Anishinaabemowin class my students learned about Indigenous Veterans and their contributions. Gchi-miigwetch @RMComedy for the idea. My students started beading poppies today 🧡 #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #IndigenousVeteransDay

We can no longer promote things like coding, which embraces learning from mistakes, and grade kids based on a quantity of correct answers. I vote to ditch grades.

Every child has protected rights, and on National Child Day, we want to make sure you know what they are! Spirit Bear has a guide to the rights of the child in child friendly language available here: buff.ly/36LlVU1

We can thank Hindu mathematicians who not only discovered the zero but also Algebra, square root and cube root, Geometry, Trigonometry, and calculus. Famous Hindu mathematicians include Arya•bhata, Brahma•gupta, Pin•gala, Rama•nuja and Bose.

Ok, KG, what do you notice? What do you wonder? Thanks, Southwood Park PS grade 3 team for the prompt!

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Well done to Ms. Clarke’s grade 3 class, doing a great job with building tall, stable structures!

SHE NEVER MISSES 🎯🎯🎯 proud (& grateful) of this one!!!!!! Marie-Philip Poulin

Teaching kids to be nice to each other and solve conflicts constructively is just as important as academics.

As a resource teacher I am always looking for new ways to teach my students. I used phone mount grips for cellphones that are collapsible for segmenting sounds. So many possibilities!

Important, tomorrow:

The victims had to ask the Church for the apology and travelled to the home of the wrongdoer to get it. It was the same with the Canadian Government. I honour those who went. I am just sad they had to go. The best apology is changed behaviour.

New TikTok video: My favorite way of multiplying by 5

I’ve connected B2 ON Language continuum w/the UFLI scope and sequence. (Blue - kindie, green - gr1, yellow - gr2). Anyone else do this yet? (Review concepts were a given, I just didn’t highlight) I’d love to chat to see if you’ve found the same or if I should make some changes.