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Sharing successes and challenges through teaching while becoming a (hopefully) published author.

Finding Joy in Covid Teaching

Finding Joy in Covid Teaching

Teaching double duty this week with six kids in class and twenty something online. It has been a month of dealing with covid in my class. I am working hard to find joy this week through reducing my workload and focusing on my favourites: writing stories and doing art!

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Transgender Awareness Week Resources

Transgender Awareness Week Resources

It is Transgender Awareness Week. This blog post will provide you with literature that you can use from primary through high school. I have also outlined a lesson I ran today using the book Red A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall.

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Picture Book Study: Exploring the Alternate Experiences of War

Picture Book Study: Exploring the Alternate Experiences of War

As we approach Remembrance Day and Veterans Day, explore the alternate experiences of war through five powerful pictures books. Help teach reading comprehension skills, compassion, and history in a powerful way that every child can participate in. This activity has built in structures to support all students.

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Reader Request: Exploring the First Peoples Principles of Learning

Reader Request: Exploring the First Peoples Principles of Learning

This is a lesson that helped my kids unpack the First Peoples Principles of Learning. We unpacked the language and then used these as a lens through which to view literature. This could also be done at a staff meeting or pro-D to help adults unpack the principles as well. I did make a mistake and have corrected it within this blog post. We are all still learning and when we know better…we do better!

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Picture Books in Intermediate Part 1: Why Picture Books?

Picture Books in Intermediate Part 1: Why Picture Books?

Part 1 of a series teaching how to use picture books in the intermediate classroom. This first blog post is an introduction to the series as well as my personal ‘Why’ behind my use of picture books in the classroom.

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