Elizabeth Moore

Executive Director of the Independent Schools' Association, BC - passionate about teaching and learning and professional development

[Elizabeth Moore @ElizMooreISABC]

@TYCHE_PARLAYS @BillyBaldwin Try learning how to spell

[Elizabeth Moore @ElizMooreISABC]

@BillyBaldwin Billy Baldwin
@BillyBaldwin I had a chuckle over this wry note of congratulations. So proud to be Canadian!

[Elizabeth Moore @ElizMooreISABC]

@ChuckHosea @MaximeBernier PLEASE correct the spelling of this before reposting.

[Elizabeth Moore @ElizMooreISABC]

Why are moderators not shutting Trump down when he interrupts and claims air time? His air time seems much greater than Harris's.

[Elizabeth Moore @ElizMooreISABC]

@azrael_333 @RobertKennedyJr Muriel, you're illiterate

[Elizabeth Moore @ElizMooreISABC]

@HrmQueene Try learning to spell

[Elizabeth Moore @ElizMooreISABC]

As we come up to #Thanksgiving, I'm so grateful for all the talented and committed @isabc1 teachers who care so much for their students #WorldTeachersDay

[Shawnigan Lake School @Shawnigan]

On National Truth and Reconciliation Day, Shawnigan students and staff are learning about the legacy of the residential school system in Canada, and taking our own steps toward healing the damage done to Indigenous cultures in Canada.

[Elizabeth Moore @ElizMooreISABC]

@VanWritersFest Please as a Writer’s’ festival correct the spelling error on your advertising blurb. It ‘affects’ not ‘effects’ us all…

[Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis @chiefrabbi]

What is the connection between apple & honey, and Challah and wine?

There is a deep message within our Rosh Hashanah traditions about the timeless and the timely.

Valerie and I wish you all a Chag Sameach, and a Shana Tova!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Elizabeth Moore @ElizMooreISABC]

@damonburns1374 @spdret25 @RpsAgainstTrump More so unintelligent and blind

[Elizabeth Moore @ElizMooreISABC]

@headlearner1 What an astonishing career of achievements you've had, John.

[Elizabeth Moore @ElizMooreISABC]

@Mattstradameus @FredrikValham @mhdksafa Actually a paradox not an oxymoron

[Elizabeth Moore @ElizMooreISABC]

As a runner I found this so inspiring. Parents infuse values in their children in all they do

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

“In one of the most notable moments in sports history, Kenyan runner Abel Mutai was just a few feet from the finish line, but became confused with the signage and stopped thinking he had completed the race.

A Spanish athlete, Ivan Fernandez, was right behind him, and after realizing what was happening, he started shouting at the Kenyan for him to continue running; but Mutai didn't understand his Spanish.

Fernandez eventually caught up to him and instead of passing him, he pushed him to victory.

A journalist asked Ivan, "Why did you do that?"
Ivan replied, “My dream is that someday we can have a kind of community life where we push and help each other to win.” The journalist insisted “But why did you let the Kenyan win?" Ivan replied, "I didn't let him win, he was going to win.” The journalist insisted again, “But you could have won!”Ivan looked at him & replied, “But what would be the merit of my victory? What would be the honor of that medal?
What would my Mom think of that?”

Values are transmitted from generation to generation.

What values are we teaching our children?

Let us not teach our kids the wrong ways to WIN.”

Calltoactivism

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.

Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees... Fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood... and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!

Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak!

It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”

[Elizabeth Moore @ElizMooreISABC]

@LaingCallum I enjoyed your presentation this morning on 'how to get a paid Board seat...' Would you be able to share the Richard Branson quotation you used (re not having the experience when starting a job) which resonated with me - which I used (badly) with a colleague

[Elizabeth Moore @ElizMooreISABC]

@Billy_K_Ball @Billy_K_Ball, I too lost a child - a daughter https://t.co/4Fd9uSRdpE and the pain is unimaginable for those who have not walked the walk. That malevolent others cast stones of unwarranted misinformed judgement simply highlights their inhumanity.

[York House School @YorkHouseSchool]

Students in the Senior School participated in creating "bags of love" which included essential products that were then donated to @CovenantHouseBC. This activity was organized by the Random Acts of Kindness Club which sold donuts to the school to buy supplies for the event #myYHS

[Intermarium 24 @intermarium24]

🇺🇦 This is the first time I've seen something like this and I'm a bit impressed.

#UkraineWar #Ukrainian #Ukraine️ #RussiaisATerroistState #RussiaIsCollapsing #RussiaInvadedUkraine