Genevieve Friesen
@mmefriesen
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Mom, wife, runner, garden enthusiast, French Immersion Kindergarten teacher (SD36). Finding inspiration in every day.
Joined October 2012
Un après-midi en maternelle! Intro to measurement w non-standard units while visiting la classes de @mmefriesen 💜🌿 #sd36frimm #sd36learn #kinderchat #outdoorlearning
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Children with disabilities deserve to: 1) participate fully in school programs. 2) be safe and welcome at school. 3) have the proper supports in place to help them be successful in school and in the larger community. 4) have someone who will go to bat for them.
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It’s Black Excellence Day today. Congratulations Dieulane Miller on your winning design for the BED 2023 T-shirts! Looking forward to celebrating Black Excellence and kicking of Black History Month in the Library at Flex today. @excellenceday @ninandotoo @deltasd37
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Over the PA on @BCFerries tonight, out of nowhere: “A generous man has just offered to pay for every kid’s ice cream — so free ice cream in the cafeteria for anyone under 16” The joy on the kids’ faces as they run down the boat. The world needs more of these gestures 🥹❤️
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The average child asks 200-300 questions a day. So if an elementary school teacher has 20 students, they are asked a minimum of 4,000 questions a day… 4,000! If your partner/spouse is an elementary school teacher, THIS is why they don’t want any questions when they get home.
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Did you know? Many of our resources have been translated into French, and we offer other Indigenous books in French too in our online store! Shop the French category in Kids, Terns, and Adults! French kids books can be found here: https://t.co/MYiGtqtUN8
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Schools will talk a big game about creating emotional “safe spaces” but won’t suspend, expel, or punish the children who make schools physically unsafe. Kids can’t focus because they’re worried about what fight will break out today between their classmates There. I said it.
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47 years ago today the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. In this thread I'm going to discuss a few things: - The actual story - The Gordon Lightfoot song - The different roles of an artist/storyteller and an educator - Why it's ok to say we were wrong
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Anyone else finding this job hard at the moment? I say “job” and not “teaching” because being in the classroom and teaching is mostly a joy. It’s the job that’s crippling me
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@MonteSyrie They need more than a card. They need balanced classes, less work load, appreciation for their craft, a pay raise, protection from parents and dumb policies, other teachers to setup and take some of those tough cases, a copy machine that works, and more than a card.
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Admin. Those teachers who step up and take on the harder cases because they can work with “those kids.” Write them a card this week. We’re only a quarter of the way through the year, and they’ve already spent a full year of empathy. Lift ‘em up. Long road ahead.
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Some people need to be pushed and some people push themselves😂
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It’s not about teachers remembering their why. It’s about leaders helping to remove the barriers so that teachers can access their why.
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A book can’t turn your child gay. Librarians are not making kids queer. They already were. It is who they are. Books help them figure themselves out. Librarians help them thrive into who they are, & who they can be when they are loved. Children have the right to be who they are.
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What she said.
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