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A scream of a shout-out this time, once again, to Jose. I finally got around to reading some of his poetry on The Poetry Cafe and this one ripped a hole through me, enough to consider adding it to my short list of poems I insist kids read.
You too, read [...]
In Native American spirituality, the Raven is the messenger of magic from the great void where all knowledge waits for us. He is also the symbol [...]
It’s a recurring theme – how do we develop our students’ literacy skills? Literacy is “an essential component of a learning society” and as educators we strive to ensure that our students develop the keenest literacy (and numeracy) skills possible so they can be active and productive members of society…blahblahblah…so that they can belong.
Lately I’ve [...]
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Well, I thought that none of my students were able to complete the end of year feedback assignment due to technical difficulties at school, but evidently one was able to…and I quote:
…and what I didn’t like of this year was the teacher that I had becuase I she made us [...]
**Aug. 19/08. My thoughts on this apology are shifting. See the progression here**
Yesterday afternoon I sat in my car with tears rolling down my face as I listened to words of healing in our government’s apology to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples in Canada for residential schooling, and in the various responses to the [...]
I forgot to have a good closure. Me, who knows of the importance of closure, forgot (me forgot? Whatever…).
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A group of kids didn’t come in on the last day and, of those who did, another group left after lunch. And a couple of them played a bit of a mean [...]
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The May 1st post on SpeEd Change begins in this way:
Start here: If your school, university, business, government requires “proof of disability” – that is, diagnosis – before providing accommodations, it is discriminating, and it is not committed to social justice, not committed to equality of opportunity, not [...]
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