Kathleen Gould Lundy

Teacher + learner.Advocate for social justice, literacy and arts education for all. Author of Teaching Fairly in an Unfair World & Stand Up and Teach.(she/her)

[Kathleen Gould Lundy @KathleenGLundy]

“When did people ever rise up to put an end to their own privilege?” A powerful provocation in Imbolo Mbue’s novel, How Beautiful We Were.

[Kathleen Gould Lundy @KathleenGLundy]

@tdsb_ihm @TPPS_TDSB @_FarheenSyed Congratulations on creating an informative and beautiful piece. Thank you.

[Jessica Bell @JessicaBellTO]

Ontarians are being told the “the Get it Done Act” will save them money from license plate renewals, driver’s license fees, tolls on highways that don’t even have tolls, and carbon taxes.

This is not what the bill is about.

It’s really about Sprawl 2.0 and giving huge gifts to developers like the De Gasparis family.

By weakening Ontario’s environmental protection rules, the Conservatives are looking to ram through huge infrastructure projects like Highway 413 and the Bradford Bypass without proper study, and open up huge swaths of rural land to sprawling development.

We fought them before on the Greenbelt and urban boundary expansion and won. And we will do it again.

#onpoli

[Kathleen Gould Lundy @KathleenGLundy]

@ianhanomansing I think your reporting is stellar. I also think you are a gifted interviewer who is responsive, intuitive, curious and fair. You can’t fake this kind of thing. You are the genuine article and Canadians are lucky to have access to your excellent, ethical journalism on CBC.

[Kathleen Gould Lundy @KathleenGLundy]

@VIA_Rail When will the app be working properly? I can’t seem to access my new booking. Thanks!

[Kathleen Gould Lundy @KathleenGLundy]

@jen_keesmaat Let’s hope the tipping point comes soon!

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

This is a map of the Province of Ontario.

The Greenbelt is a sliver of land in the context of the Province. I was going to draw it on the map but it was as thin as a pencil line at this scale. But an important pencil line - it is the richest farmland in the entire province. It is also the Carolinian forest - which contains an extremely high biodiversity of species, over 500 of which are considered rare on a global scale.

The Greenbelt was created to ensure we didn't pave over this rich farmland. It was created to halt sprawl.

The #GreenbeltGrab has never been about a shortage of land. Look at this Province! There is so much abundant land that isn't Greenbelt.

The #GreenbeltGiveaway has never been about building housing, either. It is about the profit, the uplift in value, that comes from re-designating agricultural land to residential land.

Uplift in value. At the expense of prime, irreplaceable agricultural land. That's what this is about.

[Mike Schreiner @MikeSchreiner]

Minister Clark should have resigned today. The fact that he didn't shows the buck doesn't stop anywhere with this government.

The $8.3 billion Greenbelt scandal has never been about making housing affordable for you. It's about enriching wealthy, well-connected elites. #onpoli

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Revisiting one of my favorite passages from an interview with Toni Morrison:

[John Ralston Saul @JohnRalstonSaul]

This may be the most corrupt government in the history of modern Canada. https://t.co/rkFV3sfOVk

[Wayne Gates @Wayne_Gates]

Doug Ford lied. He promised the people of Ontario he wouldn’t touch the Greenbelt.

Now we know, well-connected developers could see a $8.3 BILLION windfall from removing Greenbelt protections.

This is corruption from the provincial government, & Minister Clark should resign.

[Kathleen Gould Lundy @KathleenGLundy]

@Rabia_Khokhar1 Keep doing the work. You make a difference in the lives of students every day. It takes courage to continue on especially when you encounter people who don’t understand how racism works and how destructive it can be.

[Kathleen Gould Lundy @KathleenGLundy]

The measure of our lives. So beautiful.

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Toni Morrison from her Nobel Prize acceptance speech:

[Kathleen Gould Lundy @KathleenGLundy]

@kittythefool Use 20-20-20 fertilizer in the appropriate amount of water once a week till the end of summer. Hope that helps.I’m a BIG fan of yours btw.

[Dr. John Spencer @spencerideas]

As someone who taught reading intervention at middle school in a school that focused on a phonics-centric Science of Reading approach, here are a few concerns I see with this new trend and how it might be applied to older students:

1. I worry that we will focus so much on skill development that we fail to see the need for reading for pleasure in order to develop reading endurance. At the middle school level, one of the key elements in helping students increase their reading scores was the role of endurance.

2. An emphasis on phonics, blending, and phonemic awareness at the middle school level sometimes fails to recognize the role of critical thinking, vocabulary, and prior knowledge in reading comprehension. I’ve seen highly fluent readers fail reading tests for these reasons.

3. The one-size-fits-all systematic approach that rejects balance might work at younger levels but the reasons a 13 year old is behind will often be far more varied.

4. I’m really worried that some of the people screaming the loudest about research haven’t read the research in-depth and seen the limitations in actual studies, the nuances in the finding, and the context of the studies (rarely about middle school)

5. I want to make sure we are paying attention to accessibility. I know many people who are dyslexic and became avid readers once they could use voice-to-text and audio readers. My fear is that readying will be defined solely as decoding written text and certain people who might thrive as readers will be forced to do drills where they lean into their weakness without learning about assistive technology.

I’m no expert in early literacy but I am concerned with prescriptive approaches that treat middle school students in the same way as a second graders. I’m worried about prescriptive, singular solutions.

[Michael Gerald Gibbs🏳️‍🌈🍁 🇺🇦 (He/Him) @Mikeggibbs]

Last month Governor General Mary Simon awarded KD Lang Canada's highest Honor for the performing arts.

And of course KD made it one of the most memorable award ceremonies EVER just being KD.

Watch KD Lang make the world laugh and cry in equal measure in the same moment:
Part 1

[Kathleen Gould Lundy @KathleenGLundy]

I was so privileged to know Lloyd and to work with him @tdsb . He was kind, generous, humble and had a vision that affected so many of us. RIP.

[Kathleen Gould Lundy @KathleenGLundy]

Beloved TDSB educator Lloyd McKell, who helped bring Nelson Mandela to Toronto, dies at 78 https://t.co/ybfu4QCWk2 via @torontostar

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

200+ South African firefighters landed in Edmonton, Canada to assist in the fight against the raging wildfire. 🇿🇦🇨🇦

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Audre Lorde: