Shawn Crow

OCDSB Elem. Teacher; enthusiastic, lifelong-learner; facilitator of joy; advocate for equity, human rights, & social justice. Opinions my own. Pronouns: He/Him

[Shawn Crow @technolibre]

This thread is about Alberta but very applicable to Ontario’s education system, too.

[TRexMD @TRexMD780]

I've had several replies to my last post about my partner's impossible #Alberta classroom size of 35 & 37 students saying "So what? It was like that when I was growing up"

Yes. Teachers know that. We know that. The Millenials and Gen X of this province remember this

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[Rachel Notley @RachelNotley]

Late yesterday afternoon, the UCP gravy train hit full speed.

Let me explain. 🧵

[Teachers Unite @Teachers__Unite]

Retired #onted teachers are set to recieve a 4.8% boost to their pensions come January. Obviously, they deserve annual cola adjustments, but considering they'll have received 14.5% since 2020, current teachers need to be livid. Why are we worth less? #etfo #osstf #oecta #aefo

[DKGray @TheRealDKGray]

Dave from Alberta, again our
Northern neighbours.

Before we embark on another day of fighting for the end of our Alberta Government’s black ops blackout advertising operation to ruin hockey broadcasts across the nation, a little background.

Unlike Dave from Canmore, I have done stuff. I was the Utilities Consumer Advocate for several years before the Office was neutered.

I’m an economist with 30+ years experience in electricity. I am not an engineer, but I’ve had a lot of them work for me. Some were pretty smart.

The problems we have here stem all the way back to deregulation. During the late 1990s, financial virtualization was all the rage. It led us to a bad market design.

Which was made worse by the PC Government in 2012, when they changed the rules to allow Economic Withholding.

If you understand OPEC, you understand economic withholding.

Hold back some product to drive the price WAY UP for the rest of your sales.

Our producers do this by pricing some product at the cap $1/kW.h driving up prices for the power they do sell

The NDP made an attempt to reform the market, but failed to finish. They did stop EW for a few years.

When the UCP took over, they let it right back in.

Some people think Jason Kenney is really smart.

The people like Jeff who are paying 32 cents per kW.h probably don’t think so.

Anyway, since January 1, 2021 four companies have been allowed to drive up the price FIVE TIMES HIGHER

And blackouts?

Smith was complaining that we had ten “emergencies” last year.

If you wonder how that was caused by future Federal regulations, you are not alone.

The very things that the ads warn about - blackouts and quadruple prices - have already been visited on Alberta electricity consumers.

Help us stop the psychological abuse that comes with being a sentient being in this hillbilly heaven.

Don’t believe a word Smith says on electricity.

She knows what the real problem is. She even said it - once - right after the election.

It’s economic withholding and bad market design.

It’s not Trudeau.

It’s not gas.

It’s definitely not coal.

It’s a callous and disgusting strategy to let four companies hold us all hostage.

And fuck, it makes me angry.

Time to repost something I had taken down after the election.

Thanks for helping us get the focus back on their incompetence by trashing these shitty ads, you absolute beauties.

Dave from St Albert

#BlackoutTheAds

Appropriate (foul) language ahead.

[Shawn Crow @technolibre]

This is a disturbing lack of sensitivity.
😔

[Mme Rachel (she/elle) @mme_rachel]

Thank you @OCETFO members for joining us on Thursday Sept 21st #TBTN #OCETFO @TBTNFoundation @ETFOeducators

[Shawn Crow @technolibre]

“Institutions like school boards and universities should refuse to use their power to assess or erase the validity and faithfulness of queer and trans people of faith…in this case, queer people (especially children) who are also of a minority faith.”

[Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihateca]

@MACNational "Rabb-ishrah li sadri, wa yassir li ‘amri, Wah-lul ‘uq-datam-min-li-saani, Yaf-qahuu qawlii.

The issue I want to talk about is one that has caused so much distress for so many people, and God-willing, I want my words to ease, not contribute to that."

https://t.co/17BdQjch27

[Karen Brown @KarenAMBrown]

Ongoing attacks on 2SLGBTQ+ communities are incredibly alarming and harmful to all of us. I add my voice as president to say no to hate. ETFO stands in solidarity with students, families, and educators in the protection of 2SLGBTQ+ rights. Don’t let hate spread! #onpoli #cdnpoli

[Ramzi Abdi @RamziTweetz]

I doubt he will listen, but I am glad that I had the opportunity to say directly to his face what many people are feeling.

[Elementary Educators @ETFOeducators]

“Although I’ve seen Minister Lecce quite a bit on social media and in media interviews, he hasn't seen fit to reach out to me in person for a meeting in two years. And I’ve only spoken with the Premier twice. Facts matter. And good faith bargaining matters!” #onpoli

[Shawn Crow @technolibre]

@Interes48328634 @ElephantOpin @jackdmenendez @pattonoswalt @cannoli1000 The comparison is not a poor one; to focus on the statistically small number of people who experience what is usually considered a benefit (ie skills or an O, relatively) and not the horrible atrocity that led to it, is misleading and diminishes the negative experiences.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

On the 27th straight day of filming “Forrest Gump,” Tom Hanks was tired & worried.

During a scene on the famous park bench, Hanks stopped & said to director Bob Zemeckis,

“Hey, Bob…is anybody going to care about this movie? I don’t think anybody’s going to care.”

Bob replied,

“It’s a minefield, Tom. You never know what’s good…It’s a minefield! It’s a goddam minefield! We may be sowing the seeds of our own destruction.”

Tom Hanks told this story after he was asked, “When I ask for a memory from your career, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?”

He said that what Zemeckis said was true of every movie he’s worked on:

“There’s never any guarantee...You do not know if it is going to work out.”

Takeaway 1:

Hanks is the 5th-most highest-grossing actor of all time.

And yet, the stickiest memory of his career is the feeling of uncertainty.

Rarer than talent or work ethic, the poet John Keats wrote, is the ability to step into and push through doubts and uncertainties.

In 1817, Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization.

“At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.”

Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

Takeaway 2:

Those who possess Negative Capability, who can sit with uncertainty, who can spend months or years in the minefield that is working on something while knowing that there is a real possibility no one will care about it—they often possess another quality.

They do what they do, not as a means to some end (money, fame, awards, etc.), but for the sake of doing it.

When asked about one of his movies that commercially failed, Hanks said,

"I loved making that movie. I loved writing it, I loved being with it. I love all the people in it."

As Ryan Holiday once told me, "The work has to be the win."

You control the effort, he says, not the results.

"So ultimately, you have to love doing it. You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.”

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“Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get.” — Forrest Gump

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[Shawn Crow @technolibre]

@flyingmonkey13 How exciting is that!? Congrats!

[OSBCU-CSCSO @osbcucscso]

If @fordnation & @Sflecce think that they are on the right side of history they are living in an echo chamber.
The propaganda that is being churning out by @PCPressOffice tells a tale of insecurity.
But this display of solidarity from @opffa is absolutely amazing! #RepealBill28

[Shawn Crow @technolibre]

I loved teaching FDK and a HUGE part of that was the chance to work alongside some really incredible Early Childhood Educators. They deserve every praise and a huge raise! Thank you to the ECEs - we neeeeed you! #ECEAppreciationDay

[Shawn Crow @technolibre]

As part of our gratitude reflection (and inspired by @soulpancake’s ‘the science of happiness’), students wrote letters to express their thanks to the people who have positively impacted their lives. If expressing gratitude makes one happier, there is a lot of joy in the mail!

[Shawn Crow @technolibre]

@JessicaORegan2 What a great idea (and easily modified for an intermediate class as an entry ticket re: recent learning). Thanks for sharing!

[Dr. Erika Garcia Niles @flyingmonkey13]

So good.

[Shawn Crow @technolibre]

Multi-coloured boa feathers in a roughly-gathered pile, undisturbed by wind, along the entranceway of the hotel at which I am staying?
Uhhh, yes please @ The Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto https://t.co/QJ8aRiLeEZ