Teacher, Leader | high school @TDSB | Scarborough | MEd, SocialJusticeEd @OISEUofT | AQ Instructor & course writer @YorkUedPL | He/Him
Toronto, Ontario
Joined July 2011
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"You are a statistically significant effect. Or, a difference maker, hero, someone who believes in them." #EI2016 @dr_colin_king
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This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding, yet 66% of people did so when driving. And if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid
forbes.com/sites/carltonreid…
Today, students from @TheHill_WHCI (mainstream and DD-ISP) spent time with Miinikaan - an Indigenous garden design company - to learn more about food sovereignty, important plants, and to start planning an Indigenous school garden!
ALT View from behind students sitting in an auditorium looking at a speaker on a stage with a slide about paw paw trees
ALT Students walking across a field
ALT Students listening to a person talk about gardening
ALT Students gathered, some standing on wood benches, talking about gardening
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Israeli troops have besieged the last three functional hospitals in north Gaza, a new chapter in a conflict that has targeted hospitals with an intensity and overtness rarely seen in modern warfare. The AP spent months collecting their stories. apnews.com/world-news/still-…
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Did you know? That none of this is true.
Research has shown ABA is extremely harmful, and breaches basic human rights. Its own research is full of COI’s, studies have linked it to causing PTSD, and it breaches the UNCRPD.
People never post the ‘evidence’ with these statements
Did you know? Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is one of the most effective therapies for children with autism, supported by decades of research. Learn more at lifelineaba.com/.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Applied behaviour analysis (ABA) appears to ‘work’ from the perspective of others. But for those subjected to it, they report traumatic events from being treated with ABA. They may gain some benefits but many suffer significant negative long-term consequences.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
Great learning session this morning with our @TDSB_SLP Jessica and the DD-ISP staff, getting comfortable with navigating the TD Snap app to support communication
Meaningful collab for @TheHill_WHCI Native Studies Art students to create spoons labelling the various @PollinateTO plants planted and tended to by the students in the DD program
Students at @TheHill_WHCI participate in a school-wide event for #TruthAndReconciliationDay, planting strawberries to recognize the impact of Residential Schools and honour Indigeneity.
ALT A collage of photos showing strawberry seedlings and high school students planting strawberry seedlings in raised garden beds
Today @TheHill_WHCI DD program staff kicked off our professional learning about interception, co-regulation & relationships, and proprioception, supported by our awesome PT, Hardi, and various @TDSB_OTPT resources
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“7 Moves for Effective Destreaming in Mathematics Classes”
Every K-12 math teacher in #onted & beyond that teaches in an inclusive setting will find something useful in this article.
Thanks to @LDatSchool for giving me space to share some ideas.
ldatschool.ca/moves-for-effe…
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The stark reality of what people on bikes have to face with daily. But by all means, continue to remind cyclists how you saw one drive through a quiet street stop sign once.
#bikeTO nearly had it's 6th cyclist fatality on the same day, in the same bike lane that the young woman was killed on July 25. Remarkably, our client survived. This incident should hammer home the reality as @CycleToronto said, that we are in a crisis @MayorOliviaChow 1/3
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In addition to transphobia, misogyny and racism, disability is also in the mix here as so much emphasis is placed on “ideal” bodies that are surveilled for normalcy and kept in check with normative violence.
This is the intersection of misogyny, transphobia, & white supremacy - there are people who desperately want to believe that there is an ‘ideal’ in nature, and that they are ‘it’.
Be fast, but not too fast; strong, but not too strong; compete - but don’t win
#Khelif
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CANADA’S FIRST-EVER OLYMPIC FENCING MEDAL 🇨🇦
Eleanor Harvey wins a historic bronze medal in women’s foil, becoming the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal in fencing 🥉
#MedalMoments presented by @petrocanada
ALT Women’s fencer raises sword in left hand, clenches right fist and opens mouth in celebration. Text below reads “Bronze. Eleanor Harvey. Fencing, women’s foil.
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This week, two loved, innocent people were violently killed by drivers. A pregnant mom walking in a #WalkTO crossover, and a #BikeTO woman forced out of cycle track by a dumpster placed in it. Where's the crisis alarm and #ONpoli funding boost for #VisionZeroTO?!?#TODeadlyStreets
#BREAKING: Gardiner reconstruction could end at least one year earlier than planned thanks to a $73-million provincial funding boost
@BenSpurr and I got the details for the @TorontoStar here:
thestar.com/news/gta/gardine…
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Unlearning the harmful norms that are embedded in Health and Physical Education (#HPE) spaces is a crucial step if we are to provide #EveryStudent with affirming school sport opportunities. Read our blog, Re-imagining the Purpose of School Sport for more: bit.ly/PurposeOfSchoolSportB…
ALT Re-Imagining the Purpose of School Sport. “Issues like body shaming and attire segregation are all very real practices in our schools, and many current H&PE spaces don't help to reverse that. Our conversations did.” - Educator reflection from Wahid Khan, Course Director at the Faculty of Education at York University Read the full blog at Ophea.net! Ophea logo in bottom corner.
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The best teachers I know show respect to students & they receive it in return.
The best teachers I know show enthusiasm to students & they receive it in return.
The best teachers I know show subject expertise to students & they receive it in return.
It’s not rocket surgery.
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Family units manufacture problems because needs conflict with other expectations or other routines. Being by yourself as an autistic adult is revelatory. It's almost like most of the problems we've had as children were created by external forces, not our reactions to them. 4/4
Thread. Substitute "school" for "family" and you can see the problem with the "behaviour modification" approaches (ABA) we lean on in schools
