Sharla Serasanke Falodi 🗯

|she/her| amma, eelam thamil, settler, educator, researcher. busy making homeplace w children. mangosteens & sound bathing heal my spirit.

[Sharla Serasanke Falodi 🗯 @SharlaFalodi]

I’ll leave this right here. The voice of a grade 2 student after watching @MatthewACherry’s beautiful Hair Love short film. This is all the feedback I need to keep enriching my students with slow, steady, daily representations, provocations and affirmations.

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Listening to @GholdyM drop some serious words. One I’ll take with me is that teaching children about identity is a form of protection. Once a child knows and loves who they are, can’t nobody tell them anything. I love this deeply.

[Valerie Writing a Tell-All 😜 @MsPinkBehavior]

Calling all children “scholars” centralizes academic performance as the most important part of a student’s identity.

I call students “children” because it represents all of their qualities, their whole identity, their humanity.

#WholeChildFirst

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@CityBrampton Here is my mom's vibrant Brampton garden #GardensofBrampton. I'm submitting this on behalf of my talented mom (Rathika Niroopan).

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This is gonna be flames. I’m sure of it. ☄️

[AK Press @AKPressDistro]

We are excited to announce that Lessons In Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators is now available for preorder at https://t.co/YPmEmyCGAM!

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@MsRoweQuinn Love it!!!

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THREAD: Elder Blu Waters shared with us during a session on Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer pride that there are Two-Spirit trees around us as well. Today, the Grade 2/3s looked at this Two-Spirit tree that Ms. Sharla found in her backyard. @UIEC_Tdsb

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@MsLiteracyQueen @UIEC_Tdsb Absolutely :).

[Sharla Serasanke Falodi 🗯 @SharlaFalodi]

Children responded:

"Two-Spirit people are in the middle of two genders like the tree trunk bridge."

"Two genders come together in one like tree trunk roots coming together."

"Two-Spirit people are powerful and special, and two tree trunks make a strong tree."

My heart!!!

[Sharla Serasanke Falodi 🗯 @SharlaFalodi]

We noticed that there are two different tree trunks that, at some point in time, decided to join together as one.

I asked the children, "How is this Two-Spirit tree similar to Two-Spirit people? Here we see two tree trunks coming together, what comes together in Two-Spirit ppl?

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@CecJDwyer @UIEC_Tdsb @MSCorneau Much love! Yes, please use, that’s why it’s here :). Hope you’re good.

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THREAD: In preparation for @UIEC_Tdsb's event tomorrow w @MSCorneau & Elder Blue Waters on Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Pride, Gr. 2/3s learned about & discussed what it means to be a Two-Spirit person. We started by listening to Ma-Nee Chacaby's teachings https://t.co/ZfTjLK9L38

[Sharla Serasanke Falodi 🗯 @SharlaFalodi]

Book Title***** 47,000 Beads

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The story is titled, 47, 000 dresses. The child is wrapped with love in different ways from their community as they find themself as a Two-Spirit person.

https://t.co/dxf2gtuir4