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Being a Better Ally

August 24, 2020
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Working towards being a better ally through listening, learning, and following. A list of resources reflection and education.
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Social and Emotional Learning

April 06, 2020
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What is Social and Emotional Learning and how is it relevant to our students and to ourselves?
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Parentese and Baby Talk

November 21, 2019
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Parentese and Infant Led Communication Adults that spend time with young children will notice a difference in the way that they talk to other adults and the way that they talk to babies. Adults draw out and exaggerate words, their pitch is higher and speech is slower and emphasized. W
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Infant Sign Language

June 20, 2019
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How Small Children Communicate: A few weeks ago I spent time with a friend’s 15 month old daughter. She has learned some baby sign language recently, specifically the sign for “done”. What this has translated to is, when she is put into her high chair (and she doesn&
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Historical Thinking and Reconciliation

March 18, 2019
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Historical Thinking: Last month I attended the Historical Thinking Winter Institute at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. The institute was designed for history / social studies educators and museum curators to look at historical thinking and how we teach about the past. The Royal BC Mu
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Basic Steps to SOGI 123

November 21, 2018
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During the municipal elections, many first heard about the SOGI 123 implementation as a topic for school board trustee candidates. Did they support SOGI? Were they against it? Those outside of the K-12 education system may not know what SOGI means, and its importance to kids and our c
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Inquiry Based Learning in Geography

September 19, 2018
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Teaching Geography 12 A new school year has started! This year I have moved out of English Language teaching to focus on English and Social Studies subjects. This has also put me in the position of teaching Geography for the first time. Geography can be a dry subject. It also involves
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Teaching Pipeline Politics

May 31, 2018
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Debating the Pipeline: On the west coast, the Kinder Morgan – Trans Mountain pipeline project has been a growing controversy for several years. Yesterday, the Canadian government announced its intention to buy the troubled project, and start construction this summer. Personally,
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My Conversations with Canadians

April 05, 2018
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Indigenous Perspectives Over the past two years the Province of British Columbia has started to implement a new curriculum for students in Kindergarten to Grade 9. Over the next two years the new curriculum will be implemented for students in high school. This overhaul represents chan
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Orcas Can Speak

February 12, 2018
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Orcas imitate human speech Researchers from institutions in Germany, UK, Spain and Chile published a paper last month on their experiences with an orca whale named Wilkie. Wilkie has been trained to mimic human sounds. Wilkie was exposed to six human sounds including “hello̶
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