*sigh*
Truly pondering whether to add a disclaimer to every written document/statement/etc declining utterly for it to be fed to, engaged with, or analyzed by any and all AI in perpetuity, forever and ever.
Would it do any good whatsoever?
Having just finished watching season 1: Starfleet Academy is pretty great
Book cover: a t-Rex wearing a party hat peers around the side of a house while holding a balloon, teddy, and pillow.
Finished our BlueSpruce voting for another year and the first choice at both my schools was
The Great Dinosaur Sleepover by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Joe Bluhm.
@kaylinwrites Instagram post ••• The president calls people names. And in a classroom full of children - pause mid-lesson, mid-sentence, and say, "we don't talk to people like that." How we speak matters. Words can hurt; words can hold. He celebrates the misfortune of others, claims he's better than them. ind at circle time etween math and recess I remind them we don't need to compare. That different doesn't mean less. That there isn't one way to be good or strong or worthy. That the world is bigger because we are not the same. They nod and fidget, half-listening, asking when it's time for lunch. And I keep going at the whiteboard, in the hallway, in the way I respond when things go wrong. Because somewhere between what is loud and what is right, they are learning not just how to read or write, but how to be in this world. Kaylin Weir
This.
The second of my two schools is voting this week and I love voting week! (I have results for school 1, but will not share until next week.)
Making the emotional support pasta I first attempted on election night 2016 when The Horrors™️ began.
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😒 snow
Transport Canada has invited Canadians to participate in a survey about the brightness of car headlights on Canadian roads, and whether or not people feel they pose a safety risk.
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This skill is IMPORTANT.
We routinely talk about this with “scary books” where I work and how the best judge of what you can handle (once you’ve moved into independent reading) is YOU and if something gives you an ick or nightmares or makes you uncomfortable: stop reading it.
If you give me an epigram I will read it and ponder it.
Dedication? Most certainly.
Author’s Note? Yes: read it.
Acknowledgments: read those too.
Footnotes: absolutely.
Citations and further reading…okay _those_ are a maybe.
As someone who reads the tiny printed matter of publishing info on the back of the cover page this whole booktok discourse about not reading prologues and epilogues is completely bewildering to me.
Put it on a shirt
We already have a consumables portal. How is this better/different?
I have called Ford’s office to complain this time, however. As long as my objection is registered _somewhere_ I hope it counts.
I haven’t emailed him because I have triple-digit-negative expectations of him saying anything relevant or true.
And how much are they reducing funding per student by to offer these cards?
I’m sitting over here with library budgets of $5 per student that haven’t gone up in the 20+ years I’ve worked in education when you can’t buy a whole book for less than $9 anymore (and those are early chapter books)
Once again, I have disillusioned a child by not rising to the not-so-surreptitious sniggering over a book title.
Student: This book has a bad word.
Me: *looks* *is nonplussed*
It’s a book about a whale named Moby Dick. That’s the title.
Student: *confounded*
Yes, I suppose, it’s just so boggling that those of us on the ground work so hard to actually make differences for kids and he’s just up there claiming things that are irrelevant to anything that would actually help.
*mumbles* with great power comes great responsibility *mumbles*
I simply don’t understand what he’s trying to achieve by claiming that he’s correcting things that either don’t need correction or were never an issue in the first place.
Report cards have always been issued in paper form. I have never seen them issued any other way. Not once. We get the third page back with parent signatures to put in the Ontario Student Record file. Teachers and principals spend 2 weeks printing & signing the damn things.
Prom went nowhere.
Some boards host it, MANY MANY OTHERS haven’t hosted it for liability reasons for more than 30 years. Students plan an execute it on their own.
Absolutely bewildered by the Minister of Education’s various declarations that things are happening that need to not happen when, when despite more than 20 years working in education, I’ve never seen these things universally happen.
See:
- “bring back prom”
- “paper report cards”
Have spent the week reading a story about poutine to students.
I desperately need to order poutine tomorrow.
I’d be curious to know that too.
I’ve never heard of an electronic one existing.
How do they get parent signatures to file in the OSR?
For The Record:
I am against *waves hands*
_ALL_OF_THIS_
I’m afraid I don’t have the firm numbers to share—our board is small and I was invited to participate in the pitch and discussion process while the decision was being taken but was not made privy to specific $$ info.
Cost was less than HALF of what we were paying for L4U and their tech support has been reliable. Features have improved since we switched and there are a variety of modules you can add on if necessary.
