Teacher, mother, wife, crafty artist and novice gardener. Loves reading and science fiction movies.
Joined January 2013
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Olives anyone? Just exploring the world of olive sampling and explaining the importance of olives in Ancient Greece @CStrifling @magerLRSD Opa!🇬🇷 – at Winnipeg, Manitoba
✅️Last of my summer reads. Great strategies for direct and explicit instruction.
amazon.ca/Just-Tell-Them-Exp…
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Age-appropriate sex education is critical for young people’s health.
Evidence shows that young people are more likely to delay having sex, and if they do have sex, practice safer sex, when they are better informed about sexual health and their rights 👉
bit.ly/3MWpPyO #YouthDay
Fads vs. Science. macdonaldlaurier.ca/dumbed-d…
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“Please to meet you. I’m a Canadian. And I can tell you one thing for sure, I’m not going to be a bitch for some big city billionaire….”🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦👏👏 #Trump #51stState #NeverVoteConservative #canada #healthcare #VoteFordOut #MarkCarney4PM
Joan uses a framework for writing instruction to describe multiple components of writing instruction, represented as strands in a rope:
-Critical Thinking (generating ideas and information)
-Syntax (syntactic awareness, sentence elaboration, punctuation)
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The best students relax when real discipline is present because the troublemakers no longer have all the power. Order is the most important job of a teacher and it leads to learning and joy. Teachers who refuse to address misbehavior often cloak it in false compassion.
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If you're looking for an authoritative book on homework then look no further than this from @Dr_Castelino. It's useful for teachers but as a parent I found it even more useful.
Studies have found that children of authoritative parents generally show better behavioral outcomes .... #CBT bayareacbtcenter.com/gentle-…
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Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman tweets pic of handshake with #JimmyCarter today at Habitat for Humanity site, says 'honoured' to work with him.
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Seven years ago, I got to interview Jimmy Carter for @WinnipegNews. It was one of the coolest things I’ve ever gotten to do in my career. I was wildly nervous, but was charming and very present with me, even just a day after he’d collapsed in the heat. What a life.
