Producing #TheLostOlympians with @JessicaBiel and @audible_com has been a dream come true for this Global Issues teacher-turned-storyteller! But now: The #Webbys too??? Pinch me! NO! DON’T! Just vote NOW @ https://t.co/Ob9R1Tb7OZ
👋 @audible_com’s #TheLostOlympians is in 2nd place in #Webbys People’s Voice, and they can’t win without your votes. Period. VOTE: https://t.co/Ob9R1Tb7OZ
While we celebrate athletes who make it to the @Olympics, it’s important as well to recognize what prevents others from the same recognition. S.African Olympian and @UTKnoxville student @mikehoulie7 helps us do just that with #TheLostOlympians on @audible.
SOOO excited to share THE LOST OLYMPIANS on @audible_com with the world today! This oral history podcast produced by @jessicabiel@PurpleDishiepoo + @attn tells the story of the South Africa Olympic Apartheid ban, 1 family’s personal connection, and the importance of sport.
And as usual, @MBGov finds a broken system and thinks it’s a good idea. Consult any educator: America is the bottom of the list of education models we educators would follow. (The top is Finland.) But, then again, @PCcaucus don’t raise their hand to ask their teachers.
Manitoba appears set to radically change the way universities and colleges are funded, by switching to a popular model in the U.S. that requires schools to report achievement data and meet specific goals in exchange for operating dollars #mbed#wfp https://t.co/abKK4rWa4F
Teachers and our students don’t need cops in schools.
We need more Educational Assistants who partner with us and know many of our students better than we do, because one on one is how they roll. At my 1st school, there were 3 EAs in a school of 900 students. 🧵/1
New: Central Winnipeg trustees rejected an offer from a philanthropist — who has donated millions to local K-12 projects and has been meeting w/ board candidates running against incumbents — to pay for police officers in inner-city schools #mbed#wfp https://t.co/uYpcDED3Et
Schools are shelters for children to be guided towards and equipped for the future, not fortresses to be defended by armed soldiers. They are where we teach our students about finding the root causes of a problem and to think critically about how to solve it…. /4