Heidi Young-Thompson

wife. mom. daughter. friend. learner. educator.
loving life, living in faith, growing as I go.
Elementary Principal @PCSVictoria

[Portland Winterhawks @pdxwinterhawks]

Capping Off The Class 🚨

With our final pick of the 2025 WHL Prospects Draft, the Winterhawks are excited to welcome Cameron Young-Thompson to the family!

[Dan Shuster @DanShuster]

Update: "180 Days of Math Tasks" is my collection of curated math tasks from resources around the web. I just completed task #150 - only 30 more to go! New additions include tasks from @mathforlove, @OCR_Maths, @mathequalslove & @PuzzleADayBlog. Here: https://t.co/BAJO38ERLi

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

Summary of my presentation at the Directors of Improvement conference today.

(Strap in, it's a bit of a beast)

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[Kate Bowler @KatecBowler]

For living without control

God, I come to you as I am.
It is all I have, really.
And the next one I’m conscious of
will be the same.
I can feel the way I move,
moment to moment,
without the comfort of “solutions.”

It seems wild to me now
how I imagined any
once-and-for-all cure for this,
or a master plan to ensure
things will work out.
But, truth be told,
that’s always been
my secret hope.

So, Lord, let’s try again.
I’m begging for a new plan.
I want a plan that is an “unplan.”
I must keep moving and planning,
trying and changing,
knitting my days together even
as they unravel.
So can we do this together?

Remind me to pray: come Lord
and quiet the worry.
I step, and you steady me.
I give, and you keep my hands open.
I act, and you fortify me with courage
to try and try and try again.

This life is uncertain, Lord,
but your love is not.
You tell the story of my life
regardless of how little I know
about how it ends, except to say,
you were there since the beginning
and you appear on every page.

[Camille Bergin @TheGalacticGal]

EpiPens are toxic in space and NASA didn't know!

In fact, a group of elementary school students figured it out. Here's the story 🧵

[Heidi Young-Thompson @hyoungth]

@j_mcelroy Have a wonderful adventure!!

[KISDMathSquad @KISDMathSquad]

Congratulations to our very own KISD 5th Grade Math Teacher, Dawn Arrington, from @BearCreekIS - the @KellerISD IT'S Award Winner for February 2024! Check out her Building Thinking Classrooms learning environment at the link below! @pgliljedahl
https://t.co/l52ZBCuYq2

[Kevin Mcleod @dockevinmcleod]

You know what makes me angry?

When I admit a patient with metastatic cancer who’s unlikely to survive… and if that patient had been able to access a family doctor and simple routine screening tests they would have been most likely cured months ago. Now it’s too late.

This happens far too often. Not being able to access care sooner is absolutely killing people. It happens over and over again. It’s pretty pathetic for the billions of dollars we spend on healthcare.

[Heidi Young-Thompson @hyoungth]

@LShalott As someone who has recently been where you are (and still recovering) may I recommend The Sleep Coach on YouTube and his app BedTyme. It has really helped me and many, many others. The app has been worth the $ to me. Praying for you!

[Heidi Young-Thompson @hyoungth]

@janice__mac Wow!

[Heidi Young-Thompson @hyoungth]

@beim_m Ahhh the Amy grant tape is bringing back a lot of memories!

[Richard V DeMerchant @rvdemerchant]

#thinkingclassroom workshops with @pgliljedahl coming to Victoria BC Jan 11/24 and Feb 20/24. Register at https://t.co/jTAuebuyZt or DM me for more information. Looking forward to learning. Please RT.

[Heidi Young-Thompson @hyoungth]

@JasonGoertzen Ok that should say smiling! Hah

[Heidi Young-Thompson @hyoungth]

@JasonGoertzen And skimming while she does it!! 💪🏻

[Times Colonist @timescolonist]

In response to demand for professional cooks, Camosun College is offering tuition-free training spots in its professional cook program https://t.co/XnbX8Kjpyh

[Heidi Young-Thompson @hyoungth]

@MissLowPCS @PCSVictoria I spotted some cheating in there :)

[Heidi Young-Thompson @hyoungth]

@theVogelman @JoshKunnath I offered reassessments so students were not caught in the “later learning penalty box” but they didn’t always have time to take me up on it because they were busy trying to learn new material. No system is perfect but it’s good to talk about possible solutions!

[Heidi Young-Thompson @hyoungth]

@JoshKunnath Unless the assessments are for different areas of learning. Rarely, in my HS classroom when I was teaching math and bio, did the second assessment cover the same material as the first. I’m not a fan of using only the mean, but it isn’t always a case of “punishing later learning.”

[Heidi Young-Thompson @hyoungth]

Help Oliver Fight Cancer!
https://t.co/5VpoFrzGB9