ASD teacher hack —earplugs that allow you to talk, stay aware of your surroundings and make the sounds in the room 16 decibels quieter

I agree… except that I believe some queer kids may experiment with gender on Halloween before coming out. We need to find that line there so people are can explore in safe ways.

Happy Halloween!! #dryice

Young teachers do in fact want to have lives, travel, have children, god forbid own our own houses. It doesn’t matter how much we love the job, we will leave. We’re skilled professionals who can find better paid work. BC Teachers’ Federation BC Government News

My theory on why we won’t pay teachers what we’re worth is underlying mysogyny. Teaching is a “female” profession. Let me tell you if teaching were 90% male dominated, we wouldn’t be fighting this battle.

Better late than never. Every public sector needs to get on this.

Cozy classroom for this chilly November morning

Go Ireland

While finishing report cards today, I found a mouse in my bathroom.

Peaceful afternoon here in middle school creating winter landscapes

The average child asks 200-300 questions a day. So if an elementary school teacher has 20 students, they are asked a minimum of 4,000 questions a day… 4,000! If your partner/spouse is an elementary school teacher, THIS is why they don’t want any questions when they get home.

Society: autistic people are poor communicators. Autistic me: *I say what I mean and I mean what I say, use precise and direct language, am transparent, share important details, use grammar/punctuation in text and script conversations so I won’t pause, stumble or miss anything*.

I bought stickers from my very talented former student!!

Bittersweet moment by myself leaving central middle school in sd 61. I start a new grade 6/7 class on the Sunshine Coast SD 46 in January.

My latest teaching tik tok (only tik tok) video! #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZMYe79DYS/

Today I presented about ASD at my old high school, elphinstone secondary! Orange pants and fluevogs are my presentation uniform. #asd #bced #sd46

Power pose but make it awkward. My return to Elphi was strong if I do say so myself. #sd46 #bced #asd #teacher

Kindness community walk today with our little buddies.

the okanagan is taking a breather from their usual anti-abortion billboards to put up even worse billboards

I mean one can also perceive this as an LGBTQ pride billboard!