Mel

Wife, Mama 👧🏻👧🏻,🐱🐱🐱🐱 mama, 🐶🐶 mama, 🐥 🐓 🦆mama, 👩‍🌾🥬🥕🐝 gardener of flowers and vegetables, elementary teacher 👩‍🏫 💗

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

When a state addresses its teacher shortage by lowering the standards to become a teacher, rather than focusing on making teaching a more sustainable and respected career, it signals a HUGE PROBLEM!

[Astronomiaum @astronomiaum]

@astro_reid @Astro_Christina This is undoubtedly the most incredible video humans have ever recorded in space with a phone, iPhone Pro Max 17.

[Mel @10melbee]

@astro_reid 💕 🥹 I can only imagine, many blessings to you and your girls.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

If a student puts anyone’s safety at risk in a school, they should be moved to online learning immediately.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Schools spend hours trying to “reach” the kid who openly doesn’t care, while the kid who tries every day quietly gets ignored. We’re exhausting ourselves chasing resistance instead of investing in effort.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

What If We Let Kindergarten Be Kindergarten Again?
I do not think five-year-olds should be taking standardized tests.
I do not think there should be any formal testing before they even know how to tie their shoes.

In fact, when we look at many high-performing countries around the world, formal academic testing does not begin in Kindergarten. Early years focus on development only!

What if our Kindergarten classrooms were built around:
• Play as real learning
• Projects instead of packets
• Stories instead of screens
• Outdoor time every single day
• Movement woven into the day
• Teaching kids how to handle frustration
• Teaching them how to share, speak up, and solve problems

What if we cared less about how fast they can read
and more about whether they love learning?
Here is what the research shows.

Children who build strong self-regulation early on are more likely to succeed later academically. They focus longer. They manage stress better. They bounce back from mistakes. They persist when work gets hard.

Those skills predict long-term outcomes more consistently than early decoding speed.
You can teach reading in first grade.
It is much harder to teach resilience, curiosity, and confidence once a child starts believing they are not good at school.

Five-year-olds do not need acceleration.
They need foundation.
Kindergarten should not feel like preparation for a test.
It should feel like preparation for life.
And that begins with joy, belonging, and roots deep enough to support everything they will become.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Dear Parents—your child doesn’t need to be the smartest in the class, the best on the field, or the most talented in the room.
But they do need to be teachable.

We’ve raised a generation that can Google every answer, but too many are forgetting how to listen, respect, and learn.
Being teachable isn’t about grades or intelligence—it’s about humility. It’s about realizing you don’t know everything and being willing to grow when someone tries to help you.

As parents, we don’t need to raise perfect kids.
We need to raise kids who can take feedback without falling apart.
Who can apologize.
Who can show respect even when they disagree.
Who can be corrected without becoming combative.

Because teachability will take them further than talent ever will.

[Ms. Lutzmann @MsLutzmann]

Remember, @demetriosnAB already said the 3,000 new teachers that the government promised are NOT on top of what they need to keep up with population growth. He would need to hire them anyways for all the students who moved here when Alberta was calling. #WeAreATA #abpoli #abed

[Jason Gregor @JasonGregor]

Make it make sense?

[Mel @10melbee]

@ABDanielleSmith

[Mel @10melbee]

@ABDanielleSmith @grok How much money has gone from the government towards charter schools instead of 90% public education?

[Mel @10melbee]

@ABDanielleSmith @grok did the PC government put 43 million towards private charter schools?

[Mel @10melbee]

@ABDanielleSmith @grok please state the data about Alberta PC government spending per student compared to all other Canadian provinces and territories. Also, state what wage increases Alberta teachers have had in the last 10 years. Also state any false information @ABDanielleSmith states to media

[Mel @10melbee]

@ronmortgageguy What’s your advice for a mortgage renewal coming up in January 2026? Currently on a variable rate, and rode the crazy rates for the last 5 years. Can we start shopping early for rates and lock in?

[Red Deer IAFF L1190 @RedDeerFire]

The City says public safety is its “top priority”… while continuing to support a staffing model that leaves fire trucks unsafely staffed and crews stretched dangerously thin.

In a new article by the Red Deer Advocate, City Manager Tara Lodewyk is quoted saying:
“Public safety, and the safety of our emergency responders, remains our top priority.”
Yet the City continues to stand behind a policy that routinely leaves frontline emergency vehicles short-staffed or shut down entirely.

The article highlights a growing petition calling on the City to fix this broken system and properly staff Red Deer Firemedics. We’re asking residents to read, share, and speak up—because actions speak louder than statements.

Our crews are doing everything they can and want to tools to do their job safely. It’s time the City did too.

#iaff #iaff1190 #iaff6thdistrict #apffpa #reddeerfirefighters #standwithfiremedics #publicsafetyfirst #reddeer

[Stacy @StacyLynn624]

Public schools do not provide special education services to all students. Many SpEd students do not get the services they need in public schools unless parents hire lawyers and waste years of their lives.

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

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[Marie Oakes @TheMarieOakes]

I paid $19 and $9 for these two items for my own child and this is the price for them in Canada 😳