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Proud Secondary educator. Believe well-being comes before curriculum. Always learning & love what I do! Tweets r my own.

[Elementary Educators @ETFOeducators]

"So far, there are around 800 job cuts at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), including 300 elementary teachers, 145 model school teachers, 72 English as a second language teachers, 40 special education assistants and 150 lunchroom supervisors." #onted

And who will be most impacted by these cuts, courtesy of Ford's underfunding? It's children! Shameful. https://t.co/0QDHO9EWcA

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

New: Education unions are set to trigger bargaining this week, kicking off a tight summer timeline to reach a deal before contracts expire.

Anticipating tough negotiations, unions had asked to start talks earlier, but Paul Calandra tells me there’s “more than enough time.”

[Z @ezaplatar]

@thenanofsteel @Thetrilliumca You're right. Sadly it's not advertised and many parents don't know they can

[Z @ezaplatar]

@JBradshaw01 Curious how they will incentivize teachers to take on TC's for even longer in their classes? Since becoming an AT 18 yrs ago the # of ATs has ⬇️. The lack of preparation of TC's & the lack of decent compensation for the xtra work are reasons often given.

[Z @ezaplatar]

Parents-I am begging you... in the fight for your kid's attention in school, please, please, please, DO NOT buy your child a Smart watch!!!! Especially not after I just spoke with you about your kid's poor grades and inability to concentrate due to their sneaky cell phone use

[Z @ezaplatar]

@birgitomo Fact.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

If we invested in teacher morale with the same intensity as we do in chasing the next great curriculum or initiative, our schools and students would be far better off.

[Kimiko Shibata 🦋 @ESL_fairy]

Patience for insufficient funding for the staffing, resources, and training to proactively meet student needs.

Patience for the daily moral injury of seeing kids suffer and fall through the cracks.

Patience for systems that set kids and educators up to fail.

[Kimiko Shibata 🦋 @ESL_fairy]

Education and healthcare are not expenses.

They are investments with incredible ROI.

Let’s treat them that way.

#OntEd #OntHealth

[Kimiko Shibata 🦋 @ESL_fairy]

Ministry: we will not give you enough money to keep up with inflation, and if you run a deficit we’ll take you over.

School Boards: I guess we need to lay people off so we can balance the budget.

Ministry: lay people off? That’s it. We’re taking you over.

#OntEd

[Kimiko Shibata 🦋 @ESL_fairy]

It’s #PhoneFriday!

[Z @ezaplatar]

@FixingEducation You can't avoid the politics

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Is teaching a profession? Here’s the real definition.
A profession is defined by six things:

Specialized training
A unique body of knowledge
Clear standards and ethics
Professional judgment
Service to society
Ongoing development

Teaching meets EVERY ONE of those criteria.
So why do some people act like it’s not a profession?
Because we’ve spent years undermining the very things that make it a profession:

We scripted teachers.
We standardized everything.
We minimized expertise.
We paid professionals inadequately.
We gave more criticism than respect.

But the truth is this:
Teaching is a profession.
In fact, It’s the profession that makes every other profession possible.

[Z @ezaplatar]

@Teachers__Unite And consistent reliable wifi

[Z @ezaplatar]

@JBradshaw01 @TO_jwo @deanasumanac @CBCTheNational This was a great piece by @CBCNews_Canada. Thank you for your representation, Jason. Imo, you provided the right balance of student-centered optimism coupled with the reality of what's plaguing the system 🙏🏻

[Jason Bradshaw 🇨🇦🇧🇧 @JBradshaw01]

A common misconceptions about teaching: “don’t you just open the book to the day’s lesson and read it like a script?”
Teachers aren’t given a recipe, we’re given a menu, told to prepare everything on it, customized to individual tastes, and not provided with all the ingredients.

[Nicholas Ferroni @NicholasFerroni]

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there, to all the teachers who are also moms, and to all the teachers whose students accidentally call them "mom."

#MothersDay

[Z @ezaplatar]

@KayabagaArielle Félicitations Arielle! London est tellement fière ❤️

[Z @ezaplatar]

Grew up watching @WayneGretzky play, and now I couldn't be more disappointed