SpecialEd Pirate Teacher

@atrupar Why, capitalist greed. Multinational companies manufacturing where their is cheap labour (maybe exploitive, child, indentured), less environmental controls, no recourse if workers are injured, etc.

Lutnick: "We invent the iPhone, which is awesome. Why do we let everyone else build it? Why can't we build it here? ... we need hundreds of thousands of Americans who work in those factories."

@MrDanielBuck Merit pay helps rich neighborhoods and hurts poor ones, becuase social economic conditions and the main predictor of school outcomes

Policy proposal for school boards and superintendents: Cut education administrative staff in half and cancel needless software contracts. Use those savings to implement a pay-for-performance salary scale so that the best teachers in your district can make $120,000+

@JamesAFurey Not in Ontario. The govt would rather teachers buy their own resources and they don’t supply anything anymore.

I know it’s generally accepted by many that schools are underfunded, but I also know that nearly every school I’ve worked at has had brand new textbook sets just sitting in a cupboard somewhere barely ever used. Maybe a mismanagement of funds more than a lack of funds? Just a theory.

@EffieGib They assume they can raise prices and people will just blame the states

Last week these eggs cost $8.49, they are now $9.99!! Why? What’s the reason? They’re Canadian eggs, they do NOT come from the US, there are NO tariffs on them. Can someone please explain this to me?

@atRachelGilmore And once he gets started he won’t stop!

Whoa, Poilievre's announcement today: He would invoke the notwithstanding clause to overturn a Supreme Court ruling and make sure multiple murderers die in prison. This would make him the first prime minister to override the Charter using the notwithstanding clause. Aiieee

@FixingEducation It’s parents! They need to teach resilience. Parents use phones and video games to quiet children and have time to themselves, etc. parents need to teach them what to do when they are bored, and how to entertain themselves without electronics

Teacher: Provides awesome, engaging, interactive, relevant and inspiring lesson to kids. 45 seconds after the lesson… Student: “I’m bored” Students have little to no ability to be bored these days. How did we get here? Phones? 🤷🏻‍♂️

@sage_stage I think it depends on the percentage of each. But it takes far fewer unmotivated to affect the class than motivated

Everything I've learned about education in the last 40 years summarized in one post. If you expose unmotivated students to motivated students, the better students will get pulled down more than the less motivated students will be pulled up

@sensorystories_ Actually it is autism acceptance month! Everyone is already aware

It's Autism Awareness Month, so let's bust a pretty common myth about autism. "Everyone's a little autistic." No hate if you've ever said this. But if you have, I hope you'll stick around for this. 🙂

@BenisonMrs I get it, it sounds really bad-needs rewording‘Nonsense words’ are used to identify letter-sound correctness as opposed to sight word memorization. This can be used to identify which letters or combinations a student is having trouble with and help them learn to sound out words.

Dear special education teachers, "correctly spell nonsense words" is not a good IEP goal. thanks.

@Teachers__Unite For many schools, one extra teacher could make straight grades instead of splits. To save money they cut that teachers. We need more research showing the negative impact on split grades on education outcomes and teacher retention.

Why do administrators always push for split grades? They're bad for students and teachers. #onted #cdned #edchat

@TheFigen_ Should be called a “don’t fuck with us”

A group of cats is called...?

@Teachers__Unite What is a TOSA?

The cash-strapped #tvdsb is cutting 59 TOSA positions for next year. In all honesty, money spent on these types of positions is money not well spent. Layoffs are coming. #onted #edchat lfpress.com/news/local-new…

@BladeoftheS Do like the US, take their phones and go through them

Donald Trump has been told by Greenland and Denmark that his officials are not welcome in Greenland. But JD Vance is going to go anyway. Should Greenland do the funniest thing and arrest JD Vance?

@eduleadership @educatingsped Agreed, as long as it is done with compassion. If a student is belittled or other students tease them for a wrong answer and the teacher doesn’t step in, then a problem is created.

@SpecialEdPirate @educatingsped Cold calling is used with millions of students every day. If some individual students need an exception due to an IEP or similar that’s fine.

Yep, this is what the science says. Give kids experiences that make them stronger. Challenge them. Cold-call them. Make them do things hard enough they can't succeed without real effort. Being anxious about student anxiety only makes it worse.

@JamesAFurey I think banning books and whitewashing the curriculum is radical. Radical is from your point of view, of course you don’t see right wing extremism as radical!

Another day, another anti-Trump rant from a coworker on Facebook. Want to know how many times I’ve seen this sort of thing from a conservative teacher? Zero. In fact, I don’t know any conservative teachers IRL. Not because they’re not there, but because they sure aren’t being vocal about it.

Silence from Sylvia Jones, Doug Ford, Stephen Lecce, Kinga Surma, Paul Calandra and Prabmeet Sarkaria as Tina Yazdan reports that over 11,000 Ontarians died waiting for surgeries, MRIs and CT scans as Doug Ford and Sylvia Jones cutting $21B from Heathcare.

Inclusion while so well intentioned to de-stigmatize children with special needs is creating classrooms where kids are feared. Instead of embracing this philosophy, supporting these children and fostering community, govt used it to cut costs. Without support it creates division

@bdotpapi @tomloveless99 No one who goes into teaching because they think it is soft stays in teaching. It’s not soft! I have worked in a number of industries. Have you taught? Do you know what it takes?

Education attracts people who want to save the world, unfortunately. I wish it attracted more people who wanted simply to teach kids math, science, history, how to read, and other important school subjects.

@JBradshaw01 I’m not sure why using a sick day for mental health is seen as abuse. Teaching is very stressful

I get it, sick days should not be abused in any work place, but is this seriously the best approach to take while experiencing poor teacher recruitment and retention? #OntEd