Ms. Dyment

Teacher living well with Bipolar 1. #HWDSB. Math Geek✏️.
mental health advocate.
eLearning wizard 🌌
she/her

[Frank Domenic @TheFrankDomenic]

Ontario is introducing a new mandatory Grade 10 financial literacy test that students will need to score 70% on in order to graduate #ontario #onpoli #onted #ontariostudents #ontarioteacher #ontarioeducation #ontarioteachers #ontarioschool #ontarioschools #OSSTF #OECTA #ETFO

[Ms. Dyment @MsDyment]

@JBradshaw01 I'm an alternative education teacher who specializes in math and science... I love following you!

[Ms. Dyment @MsDyment]

@JBradshaw01 I will add... I LOVE my coworkers. I'm so grateful to work with lovely humans... it really makes a huge difference.

[Ms. Dyment @MsDyment]

@JBradshaw01 I love what I do, and somedays I wonder if it's worth it. Our career is so hard, yet, the most rewarding.

[Jason Bradshaw 🇨🇦🇧🇧 @JBradshaw01]

Beautiful!

[Dan Shuster @DanShuster]

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: https://t.co/BAJO38ERLi

#iTeachMath

[Jason Bradshaw 🇨🇦🇧🇧 @JBradshaw01]

The “gender controversy” is manufactured in order to push agendas like this.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Aiming for the best is a recipe for misery. The problem isn't high standards—it's always looking for better alternatives.

There's no such thing as a best job or best apartment. There's only a good fit for you.

A key to happiness is accepting options that meet your standards.

https://t.co/qEUjMN0b1Z

[Lisa Anne Floyd @lisaannefloyd]

Attention high school teachers! Check out these Financial Literacy Modules for Students - https://t.co/Sd6GGT9c72 Three modules: 1 -Earning, spending, and budgeting, 2 -Bank accounts and credit cards, 3 -Borrowing and Investing #OntEd #FinancialLiteracy #ITeachMath #mathed

[Melanie Mulcaster @the_mulc]

Treaties with Indigenous peoples in Canada, explained | CBC Kids News https://t.co/84u1XgyFvQ via @YouTube

[Kimiko Shibata 🦋 @ESL_fairy]

Whoa.

If you haven't checked back recently on the shared spreadsheet with all of the decodable texts aligned with each sound taught in the UFLI sequence check out the HUGE number of decodable book series added!

https://t.co/zbf6sv8IOn

#OntEd

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Don’t mistake silence for apathy. When people are quiet, they’re often busy thinking and learning.

Extraverts like to process ideas by talking them through. Introverts prefer to reflect before they speak.

I'm not disengaged. I'm listening to your views and formulating mine.

[Fred Hahn @FredHahnCUPE]

Me watching as right wing trolls try to intimidate me - posting my cell number, making hateful memes - they don't realize I'm a rural working class gay kid, I've faced down employers & governments defending workes & I'm in @cupenat @CUPEOntario - won't stop us from fighting hate

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Normalize not thriving.

Life is not always meant to be optimized. We aren’t always meant to feel good. It’s ok to feel down. To self isolate. To have periods of grieving.

Human beings are seasonal.

[Brian Aspinall @mraspinall]

Encourage team building with this fun back to school icebreaker via @DrFrankRud.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

THIS IS GOING VIRAL SO I WANTED TO SHARE IT HERE TOO:

A bit from my past:

My first job after getting my PhD was working as a therapist for people from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

Almost all of them were diagnosed with depression, GAD, bipolar, or BPD. Most were highly medicated— some to a point that still sticks with me years later.

As I got to know their background and lives 3 things were very clear:

1. A vast majority had been emotionally neglected, emotionally abused, or physically abused as children.

2. A vast majority had experienced domestic violence or were currently living in it.

3. Basic needs were never met. Life was an hour by hour struggle. Treatment was an attempt to allow them to get to work in most cases. To just continue to surviving.

It was the start of me questioning the field I had been trained in. One that diagnoses people with disorders without taking a look at the whole picture. It began my path of holistic understanding.

A person cannot be well when one unexpected bill will have them fall behind on rent. When they lay their head on a pillow and all they can think about is expenses piling up. When a bill at the grocery store is almost double what they paid last year when their income has stayed the same.

An entire family unit deeply struggles within survival mode. When a job is lost. When daycare needs to be paid, but so does the light bill— what do you choose? When parents can’t even think about the emotional needs of their children because they have to figure out where their next meal is going to come from.

In 1942, 10 years before the diagnostic manual of mental illness was released Maslow knew what was once just common sense: we have a hierarchy of needs.

At the bottom are basic needs food and shelter. Then safety (resources, security). Then belonging (connection, friendship, intimacy.) Without three things we *will* be sick, period.

I get pushback for questioning the status quo. And I’ll continue to do it. The status quo is keeping people sick. It denies their experience. And it says we should bandage people’s symptoms so they can return to the environment that made them sick.

May we wake up, heal ourselves, and build conscious communities to help each other.

Retweet if you feel this is true in your body 🙏

[David J. Doorey🇨🇦 💙 @TheLawofWork]

Here's my blog post from last year explaining why unions would be stupid to NOT take a strike vote

Note it was Conservatives that introduced law requiring a strike vote. Cons wanted, expected unions to take strike votes.

So big eye roll on Ford govt now criticizing strike votes

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

If your first role as a child was to work around an adults temper, of course you have anxiety. You were protecting yourself when someone should have been protecting you.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Wanna understand some of the biggest science news of the year (maybe the decade?) better than 99% of people? That new should be coming out tomorrow evening, but we know a bit about it...so here's a thread:

[Ms. Dyment @MsDyment]

@nomad_penguin Lately, I've found when I'm my quirky self it gives students the agency to be their true selves as well.