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All posts in June 2020

Day 1 – Trauma, Mental Health, & our Students

Posted on June 29, 2020Author Tracy RosenPosted in Classroom, Mental WellnessLeave a Reply

This week a friend of mine challenged me to do 25 pushups for 25 days as a way of raising awareness for mental wellness issues that can lead to suicide and it goes by the tag #matesofmatesformates. Yesterday was Day 1 and I questionned – what can we do beyond the challenge? How does doing 25…

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Checking ourselves. When good teachers are racist.

Posted on June 28, 2020June 28, 2020Author Tracy RosenPosted in News, Stories from the heart, TeachingLeave a Reply

Close to 15 years ago, I became friends with a teacher in South Burlington, Vermont. She was a master at differentiation and I met her first through a webinar and then in person. She graciously allowed me to bring a group of teachers from Montreal to spend the day in her classroom. It was a…

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When we talk, when we listen. We get better together. (epilogue)

Posted on June 24, 2020Author Tracy RosenPosted in Stories from the heartLeave a Reply

A story in 3 parts – epilogue I already posted an article earlier today called English Sector Exclusion: A story in 3 parts and I don’t usually post twice in one day but today, I need to. The survey that excluded anglophone school boards (and therefore the voices of teachers who work within these boards)? It…

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English Sector Exclusion: A story in 3 parts.

Posted on June 24, 2020Author Tracy RosenPosted in News, Stories from the heart1 Reply

Part 3 Yesterday afternoon I was forwarded this questionnaire by a colleague in another province. I was attracted by the headline because I thought it was important to gather this kind of data. But when I went to fill out the questionnaire, I realized that, though I teach in the public system in Quebec, my experience didn’t…

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How you Zooming?

Posted on June 3, 2020Author Tracy RosenPosted in Connecting, Distance LearningLeave a Reply

When we were told to keep in contact with our students, it didn’t have to all be via Zoom. I was reading through the comments on a Facebook post just now about fighting with children to do their homework and to get on their Zoom meetings. When I saw this comment (I hid the commenter’s picture…

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