Oh Canada... this has become a legit problem. What do you think is driving it?

An effective analogy for masking at school. And yes I do think we could be encouraged to wear masks more. I still have students who come to school with sniffles & coughs who are not wearing masks… campaigns and awareness could be a lot better….

BC Human Rights Commissioner weighs in on School Liaison Officer (police in schools) programs. Hard to disagree that these programs should be grounded in solid research that compares them to alternative models. #bced #bcpoli bchumanrights.ca/news/letter-to…

Stephen Cox I became a teacher at the age of 45. Prior to that I’d been a regional MD of a large firm and then MD of another company. I worked “proper jobs” in the engineering industry. Teaching is the hardest job I’ve ever had. And the best. I need the holidays to recover. So do the kids.

Yup.

As a teacher, I empathize a lot with this thread. It should be pretty obvious that an MD in the The College of Family Physicians of Canada's work doesn't end when the last patient leaves the clinic. Kinda like those who think teachers work 9-3.

Very concerning numbers in 🇨🇦 #HigherEd. Lots of challenges in interpretation, but important to pay attention and respond as this appears to speak to a fundamentally different capacity to thrive among university-going youth. #bced

Dearest Students, I don't want to hear a single word of complaint from you EVER, about ANYTHING. #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

Had a TOC EH Montessori in for my prep. Lesson plan: French. At lunch, I learned she speaks 🇺🇦. So, to reinforce #bced curriculum Big Ideas, instead of my plan, I asked if she'd teach pretending to only speak 🇺🇦. Kids worked hard & had fun bridging a new language gap 😀 #WestVanEd

After three days of voting, the membership of the BC Teachers’ Federation has voted to ratify the Memorandum of Agreement reached between the BCTF and the BC Public School Employers’ Association. The vote was 94% in favour with 35,559 ballots returned.

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Researchers studied the effects of a 20-minute walk on the cognitive performance of a group of children. This is fascinating…

'Paid sick leave as a crucial public health measure has been called for by public health and medical experts throughout the pandemic, but perhaps has never been as urgent as now amid one of the worst crises the pediatric health care system has ever faced.' thestar.com/opinion/contri…

Regardless of what conclusions one draws, stories like this are getting more common. It has implications for teaching and learning everywhere. I'd love to hear some of your thoughts - @MediatedReality Ian Landy (he/him) @grapemanca & anyone else who wants to chime in. #bced

The independent review of B.C.'s COVID response that was commissioned by the government has just been released: www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/pub… It finds the most transparent jurisdiction in North America was, in fact, not transparent and eroded people's trust.

#NEW: Independent review of BC's COVID-19 response highlights several points that need improvement including pandemic planning, health data collection, and very clearly, transparency and an explanation for public health decisions. #COVID19BC Capital Daily

We might only have 80 students across 4 classes in K-5 EH Montessori but we don't mess around when it comes to our end-of-term musical every December. Show goes on tomorrow and the kids as ready to shine! (in a piratical kind of way 😅) WestVanSchools

Connect to local community? ✅ Meet experts? ✅ Conduct real experiments? ✅ Visit real labs? ✅ @westvanschools EH Montessori gr 4/5s are on their last of 3 field days DFO Pacific's PSEC lab in #WestVan. Grateful to share our experimental results & get feedback from scientists.

Sad that the @nhl and NHLBlackhawks allow the Russian govt's openly anti-#LGBTQ laws to curtail their freedom. While it may have been defensible to make an organizational decision to have 🇷🇺 players not wear pride jerseys for the warmup, its not defensible to cancel altogether.