One, of many, highlights from the past week.
Great things are happening at #CEC 🧡💙
“Hey, I’m living the school and foods class. Brought you some cookies.”
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I have been working on a collection of math tasks that I am calling "180 Days of Math Tasks." So far I am one-third of the way with 60 tasks completed. I am hopeful to also include extensions and other add-ons. The collection is here: bit.ly/180daysmath#iTeachMath
I had a new guy working for me once in retail who fell asleep a few times during his shifts. I had coworkers and customers both tell me they thought he was on drugs cuz he'd nod off right in the middle of something like that. When I talked to him about it it turned out he was…
Statement from Minister Druhan:
2SLGBTQIA+ students, and all students, have the right to learn and grow in a space where they are respected and feel they belong.
Can we stop demeaning audiobooks please?!
Audiobooks are books.
It’s literally in the word.
They make reading more accessible. Why aren’t we encouraging that?!
So shut up with your moral superiority.
Both are “proper reading”.
A book is a book is a book.
All the quilling is done for my quillbox. I have to work on the spruce root tomorrow and sewing the sweetgrass on and constructing the lid. I’ll be weaving quills through the spruce root on the lid
Friendly back to school reminder:
When kids show up late for school, they still showed up. Thank them, not scold them. It’s not always their fault.
“I’m happy you’re here” goes a very long way.
We're missing the point about math anxiety and timed math tests.
Whether the relationship is causational or not is NOT what's significant.
The entanglement of these 2 concepts is blinding us to the dangers each brings to a student.
Lean in, folks. I'm fired up. 🧵
#MTBoS
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