A racist person who becomes a teacher will be a racist teacher. Same for every profession - banking, policing, social work & more. Antiracist, culturally responsive, decolonizing, anti-oppressive work needed in all spaces
Normalize not looking “perfect” on Zoom.
Normalize breaking protocol and having someone from your household come and hug you.
Normalize being human while working remotely.
Working from home means that we are all uninvited guests. Let’s be ultra polite and chill about it.
What do you need in a video lecture? A thread of provocations, by me. First, here's what you don't need: new camera, new microphone, new lighting, new software. You can make EXCELLENT class videos using consumer-grade tools you already have. 1/
university of toronto professor Alissa Trotz has resigned from her positions at @MasseyCollege over the school's appointment of Margaret Wente as a senior fellow. during her journalism career, Wente published racist pseudoscience, and was repeatedly investigated for plagiarism
First in the Assessment, Research & Evaluation series, @ndarney asks: “How do we tell when the assessment itself is in some way harming someone?”
“Who are the partners with us in assessment, and what do they get out of it?” #SAcdn Read here: https://t.co/AX2Jp5SwYD
@zoewhittall For what it’s worth as someone who has enjoyed and appreciated your writing, I’m not middle aged or queer and I would love to read this book.
Our next #SAchat is on Mon April 15 at 12pm ET on equity in #SAcdn! Join us & share your journey in equity work as a #SApro. Learning from our experiences will help all of us be better positioned to move equity fwd, 1 “step” at a time. Hosted by @akeisha09@hameed_sania
University students, do you want to help make Canada more accessible? Join the @univcan Innovative Designs for Accessibility competition. Your team could win up to $5000 for your design. Contest deadline is April 30. Learn more at https://t.co/Y7WKZiAft3.
Student Voices: Mentorship in SA- Graduating @RyersonFCAD Communications student Vimbai Chikoore shares the powerful positive influence of #SApros on her confidence & development #SAcdn#RyersonSA https://t.co/jv2kuPFYHB @nikkiwaheed@Emily_G_Jones@adrianlayne30 @camara_chambers
What counts as essential service? How will institutions bend to the prov. govt’s directives? If they do, how will they determine where to redirect their budgets to ensure the best learning experience for the greatest number of students? @ericschweng #SAcdn https://t.co/82WpuoYTiX
"At the time, faculty and staff often operated as two solitudes with little understanding of one another’s experiences or challenges. They were also unaware that they shared more in common than they might have considered." https://t.co/NJaQnMkImQ
The story behind the 2018 $10 bills - To Be Upright in an Upside Down World: Viola Desmond, by #SAcdn editorial board member Melissa Warden Black #BHM https://t.co/GM7ewECHg5
Introducing Dr. Jennifer Wemigwans' new academic discourse in Indigenous Education that connects traditional Indigenous ontologies w/ current accessibility of tech and branches into Indigenous Futurism.
SA Reads: A Digital Bundle https://t.co/FYufFrEyGZ @IENatOISE#SAcdn