ALERT: On Monday, November 7, HWDSB schools will be CLOSED to all students for in-person learning. Students will move to independent (asynchronous) learning at home and will begin real-time, remote (synchronous) learning on Tuesday, November 8. hwdsb.on.ca/blog/labour-up…

This is simply amazing. Thank you! 😯❤️😊

The President of CUPE National confirms Bill 28 will be repealed in its entirety. The legislation will be deemed that it was never a law in Ontario. OSBCU-CSCSO will collapse its picketing sites tomorrow and will return to the bargaining table. #onted #onpoli

Oh love this idea!!!

Literacy AND gym at James MacDonald Our gym teacher is amazing! She is incorporating Phonological Awareness and Phonics into her warm-ups for ALL grades! HWDSB Reading Specialists HWDSB #Scienceofreading

Teachers playing sailors and pirates - a literacy based warm up game for gym! Grab a letter, find it's matching picture, but beware, that sneaky pirate will steal all your hard work! James MacDonald HWDSB #scienceofreading #physicaleducation

An important research finding that hasn’t yet made it to all classroom teachers: leveled reading groups don’t work. Karen Vaites does a great job here breaking it down in simple terms and offering links to research and resources. eduvaites.org/2019/11/02/lev…

Now we have a teacher band!!! What a great way to end the assembly James MacDonald HWDSB

Ahh! I am so excited. I just grabbed my ticket. I can't wait to see Christopher Such and all the other presenters. And have a fan girl moment over @MmeLockhartLDSB and Kate Winn 🥳

A 1 minute reading automaticity assessment (called Oral Reading Fluency) is the best predictor of student's true comprehension. A better predictor than retell, cloze, question answering. Jan Hasbrouck, Ph.D. outlines how 40 years of research backs this up. youtu.be/pydoPeohGoQ?t=…