“Excellent teachers need to understand thinking, realize how difficult many tasks are for beginners, and find ways to encourage students to build confidence and invest effort to learn various strategies to thus think and learn.” @john_hattie

“A safe emotional connection with a caring adult is the best guardian of a child’s heart. The impact of one good student-teacher relationship on emotional health and well-being can be profound and lasting.” @HannahBeachEDU

RT @cmhsrams: To 'build, baby, build,' this country is going to need a whole lot more shop teachers. https://t.co/….

“Neuroscientists tell us that even teens with good executive skills can struggle at times with the behaviours governed by executive skills. Their brains are going through a critical stage of development, and these executive skills are not yet securely anchored.”

Only took two years of summer driving to listen to the entirety of this book in the tape deck of Double-D. Huge twist at the end. ⁦@JP_Books⁩

“Be who you are. That’s real toughness.” @stevemagness

“Narrative feedback and performance reviews constitute a much more effective method of evaluating students.” @markbarnes19

“The emotional bond between students and teacher - for better or worse - accounts for whether students learn.” @DTWillingham

“Growing up in the virtual world promotes anxiety, anomie, and loneliness. The Great Rewiring of Childhood, from play-based to phone-based, has been a catastrophic failure.” @JonHaidt

RT @cmhsrams: Amazing morning spent with Calgary Construction and BILD. Looking forward to the partnership and supporting students in pursu….

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“Resilience is the key to our own ability to thrive and, therefore, our ability to help others thrive.” @brightmorningtm

“Turns out we are hardwired to do this. It’s so instinctual, even babies dance long before they have a clue what they’re doing. There are lots of scientists studying the brain, trying to figure out exactly why we react to music in this way.”

“Leadership isn’t just another step in your career; it’s a leap across the great divide.” @DrKarenOtazo

RT @teachergoals: Happy Mother's Day! 🌸.🌐

RT @buitengebieden: Happy Mother’s Day. ❤️

“A world in which autocracies work together to stay in power, work together to promote their system, and work together to damage democracies is not some distant dystopia. That world is the one we are living in right now.” @anneapplebaum

RT @cmhsrams: In recognition of National Volunteer Week in Canada and on behalf of Skills/Competences Canada, our very own teacher, Kaitlyn….

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“For the French to crack this great continent and all its wealth - and I include the wealth of souls, … we must crack the Huron Confederacy. They are the ones, clearly, who control the trade in this savage land. And so we must control them.” @JosephABoyden