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First population level study on mask effectiveness shows 40-60% reduction in transmission based on masks alone. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

There are no BAD kids! There are kids who: -have been traumatized -have little hope for the future -haven’t experienced success, love or joy -have been repeatedly disappointed by adults -haven’t learned to regulate emotions It’s NEVER too late to help a kid who is struggling!

What it must be like to be a teacher in Alberta; to be taking on significant risk by returning to the classroom with no extra funding, fewer support staff, and kids that haven’t been around each other in 6 months. Kids who are coping with the greatest crisis any of us have seen.

Today's a bit of a turning point, in some ways we're back, for now, but now is all that exists. What is possible? I wrote this about kids, but I think it applies to us all. Welcome back everyone, we are more than we aren't. whatisrightineducation.blogspot.com/2020/08/welcom…

Help us keep the momentum going! Add your signature to our petition calling on the Minister of Education to scrap the regressive & inappropriate recommendations of her curriculum advisors: loom.ly/4NnHEOQ #Ableg #abed

Gotta tip my cap to Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 though -- takes a certain kind of tenacity to appear from isolation because you've been breaking your own voluntary measures to announce that voluntary measures are all we need as a pandemic rages out of control. Quite a moment.

Boston health care workers dancing on the sidewalk to celebrate the arrival of the first covid-19 vaccine.

The new Alberta curriculum is bad. It's bad in all the ways you've heard. It's bad in many of the ways you haven't. whatisrightineducation.blogspot.com/2021/03/its-ju…

Just your weekly reminder that “discovery math” is a term only used by politicians and out of touch columnists. This term doesn’t show up in a single curriculum document. #abed #mathchat #ableg

215, a number striking both in its magnitude and its insufficiency. I've been left wondering what it all means. This is as close as I've come to anything. whatisrightineducation.blogspot.com/2021/06/215.ht…

"Jason Kenney fucking lies all the time." Ryan Jespersen has had it with all the falsehoods, distortions and fabrications coming from Alberta's premier, on #RealTalkRJ. WATCH: youtu.be/xtVuxB0k6Uc?t=… LISTEN: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/nov… #abpoli #ableg #UCP #Alberta #Kenney

Operators are standing by! x.com/howie_hua/stat…

New TikTok video: Are you tired of "borrowing" when subtracting? Here are 4 ways to subtract that doesn't involve "borrowing."

New TikTok video: Multiplication doesn't have to look different based on what we are multiplying

Small changes, big impacts part 3: Asking mild, medium, and spicy questions and asking "Where do you want to start?" is a small change that made a HUGE impact in my classroom. Thank you Peter Liljedahl for sharing this.

It's Mental Math Monday! How do you think about 104-38? Do you count up from 38 or would you rather think about it as taking away 38 from 104?

A math "trick" that can make subtraction easier:

The long division algorithm CAN be understandable and not just a procedure to memorize. Here's how we can make sense of it:

Springer’s moment was cinema 🎬