Dia MacMighty
@DiaMacMighty
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Some would call me a booktator but I don't care what book you read as long as you're reading.If you're not - I'm coming after you with a book I think you'd like
Joined February 2011
It’s glorious out there today. Stop scrolling start walking!
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Exciting! New signs are popping up all over Alberta!
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The teacher's workday is not designed for us to create or even modify curriculum. This is why boxed programs are the easiest way for teachers to stay working within contract hours AND the biggest threat to effective instruction.
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It was a four play kind of trip. I think retirement is pretty great so far.
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18000 steps so far! And we haven’t even been to the play yet!
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Forget the fake reading wars. Read books, find the ones that bring joy, tears and laughter. Show your kids what books can do. There is no kit, no program that gets them there without that!
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I’m retiring today and I promise to be fully present for all the fun to come!
Today's Poetry Thread: BEING PRESENT This has to be the best poem about being in an experience instead of trying to capture it (with a picture, a video, even a selfie). Of course the irony is that the poem captures, creates, forms an experience. Feel free to add poems.
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Everything has an ideological spin. Everything. Vaccines, masks, 15 min cities, yoga, supplements, unproven therapies, homeopathy, longevity, wildfires, GMOs, the weather, etc, etc. I've been studying twisted science for almost 30 yrs. This level of partisanship is new.
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Coincidence that a country, Finland, that teaches critical thinking skills early and often has high confidence in vaccines? - 93% strongly agree vaccines important. - 0% disagree. https://t.co/Jo1Muxp2Lk via @vaccine_trust #ScienceUpFirst
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My son was termed a “reluctant reader” in KINDERGARTEN and I watched him give up on school as his teacher said comics were getting in the way of literacy. Was given awful boring nonsensical Bob books instead. He WANTED to read comics, with built-in scaffolding, engagement, and
My son is now in high school. He LOVES to read because he went to the comics store with me every week. It was a special outing each Wednesday that was all about the love of literature. We always read together. Now - we still do the exact same thing. Comics = literacy.
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Powerful lecture from Jackie Goldberg of the Los Angeles school board on protests against a children’s book with one sentence about families with two moms or dads. She says this is personal for her and really lets loose at the end.
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It is so difficult for students to learn when they are in survival mode, and it is nearly impossible for a teacher to be the best teacher they can when they are in survival mode.
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Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are nouns when you stress the first syllable but verbs when you stress the second. "Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.”
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The problem with scripted programs is that it engenders mindlessness in teachers. When we ask teachers to follow a curriculum with fidelity, we don't encourage them to think about the science of learning.
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