Mark McMath

I heard our future Premier @MaritStiles speaking tonight about building affordable housing, fixing our schools, protecting farmland, and rebuilding public healthcare. Ontario deserves a government that cares about all of us, not just wealthy donors.

Far too many parents in #OntEd are being asked to keep their vulnerable child with complex needs home or to only attend school part-time because of insufficient staffing to keep their child safe. This is not okay. Please fix this, @JillDunlop1.

@JillDunlop1 Please also fix the existing older schools with condemned ventilation systems, lead in the drinking water, windows that don’t open, leaking rooftops and windows, mold and mildew, crumbling walls…

Well …… 38 yrs for the @wrdsb Kodaly Choral Festival. Directors going through selections for this year. Bravo Mrs. Miller!!! @fglwrdsb

@primetimebird @ESL_fairy Retired administrator here. Kimiko is exactly 100% right. Many admin are spending the weekend looking for EA’s to fill gaps for the short and long term. It is the students that suffer.

@ESL_fairy @JillDunlop1 Proof or it didn’t happen

Right now a school principal in an #OntEd school near you is weeping and hasn’t slept because they can’t figure out which vulnerable kids with complex needs to pull essential EA support from in order to keep another child with even higher needs safe. Please help, @JillDunlop1.

@breakfasttv The best kept secret is that schools already had these rules in place. This is a brilliant PR strategy to detract from the fact that violent incident reports have gone up significantly in Ontario schools with the cuts to specialized supports and programming for vulnerable kids.

@CityNewsKIT “Cambridge school and New Dundee school both score 10/10 - both ranked first in the province.” Fixed the headline for you. The embedded article from the F.I. is also misleading.

Fraser Institute ranks elementary schools in Ontario, Cambridge school ranks first in province kitchener.citynews.ca/2024/08/29/fra…

@bk_2011_bk The school year calendar is directed by the Ministry of Education and has specific parameters. I agree, completing the training, with proper compensation, would help.

@mmcmath1 @Jgs_90 Do it on the Friday like they used to every other year. Be ready to go for Tuesday.

ICYMI: Tuesday, September 3 is a PD Day for all #WRDSB schools, which means no school for students! All board-operated Extended Day and Youth Development programs will also be closed. Read more about what staff will be learning: wrdsb.social/3yYbSwS

Here is what I know to be true: Kimiko is one of the wisest people on this platform. #OntEd

Yay Madame!! Thank you for supporting student fun and Jump Rope!

Awesome to see young drummers being able to play at school! Great use of dampeners and great snare drum (Slingerland?)

Looking for a Solar Eclipse Choice Board for your students or your own child to learn more about the solar eclipse? File-Make a Copy to get your own editable version to adapt for your uses. Hot off the press: docs.google.com/presentation/d… #OntEd #SolarEclipse

Day 3 and final day of Area Rehearsals for the 37th Annual Kodaly Choral Festival @wrdsb Over 900 students singing over two nights. (May 7 & 8) Guest artists are KWs own “the.trainwrecks” @WTTWRDSB

Day 2 of Kodaly Choral Festival Area Rehearsals. Thank you to @viswrdsb for being amazing hosts! @wrdsb @kodalychoir

Yay!! Never enough percussionists!

Excited that the Kodaly Festival Area Rehearsals are back after a 4 years (covid). Hear singers at Centre In The Square on May 7 and May 8 (16 schools each night). @wrdsb @kodalychoir

I could use some #GoodTwitter energy right about now. Please spam me with your good news, adorable animal photos, silly jokes, or something kind that someone did for you this week. Thanks in advance.

@AdrianaBarton Just retired and managed to finish your book. Enjoyed reading of your journey. And now excited to do more musical things in my retirement! @StratfordSO being one.

authors, editors, publicists, et al—what 2023 titles absolutely NEED to be on my radar?

Idea: Survey all people graduating from Faculties of Ed to find out why or why not they are choosing to work in schools. Also: an exit survey for all educators who leave the profession. Then use that data to help recruit and retain educators. #OntEd @Sflecce