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Scott Gordon
@rmsgordon
High School Teacher and Librarian
Ottawa Присоединился Ocak 2012
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Reading instruction definitely needs reforming but I don’t think that pieces like this help us get there. Instead, let’s provide teachers with training and proven strategies that help students become better readers and encourage those same teachers to have an open mindset.
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It becomes easy to let text to voice and voice to text be the entire solution but in our experience is something best used in combination with other approaches that let students build up their reading stamina to succeed in situations when there isn’t tech assistance.
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As a parent of a dyslexic reader I find the extreme and provocative rhetoric in pieces like this problematic. Teaching reading is an art not a science and teachers need to be aware of the full range of options available to teach reading.
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@3dreads 1. James Mtume toured as a percussionist with Miles Davis in the early 1970s.
2. To pay for acting lessons Harry Belafonte sang in jazz clubs with bands that included Miles Davis.
3. Belafonte and Poitier were close friends and fellow civil rights activists.
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As the Google Meet opened up, #Mtume 'Juicy Fruit' was playing. Msg in the chat, "Today I'm going to connect this song by Mtume to #SydneyPoitier"
Who can do this #HipHop math, 4 steps or less?
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Scott Gordon ретвитнул
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Our young teenage daughter is about to head to her shift as a grocery store cashier so we can all have food on our tables this holiday. Please mask up tight, sanitize and be kind to your cashiers all. Some of our frontline workers are young behind the mask. 🙏
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I’m going to suggest that @OC_Transpo might be able to pay off some of their cost overruns on the LRT if they were to cut their salt budget by even 1/4…
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Yesterday I was able to drop off everything we’d collected at Woodroffe HS for @MinwaashinLodge. Over $800 and an SUV full of other donations. Really happy to be able to support the great work the Lodge undertakes for Indigenous women @OCDSB @KielyRussell
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This book had a profound effect on my teaching and my relationships and interactions with students in the classroom. Should be required reading for every teacher!
Tim Smyth@historycomics
I am on P 42 and had to share. I needed this book. As a teacher and quiet leader, I am often stressed by the overvaluing of extroverts. We all have a place. We can’t value humans as “more” simply because they are ABLE to do the extroverted practices. Thank you @susancain
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This is a great cause WHS is getting behind. If you’d like to make a monetary donation you can do so here: ocdsb.schoolcashonline.com/Fee/Details/46… @Idil_A_ @3dreads
Kiely Russell (she/her)@KielyRussell
@OCDSB @WoodroffeHS @kimelmer @rmsgordon @kylmorrisonedu Today Ss met in Circle of Friendship @ lunch to make boxes for the Minwaashin Lodge for classrooms in the school. They are taking ACTION to support Indigenous Women & Girls fleeing violence. 🧡🧡🧡
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@istamour Would have done so sooner had I known you were on The Twitter! Thanks to @neerteach for making the connection 🙂
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Here’s to using propinquity in a tweet! (For the record I’m also in favour of silent cheering of students, I just also like big fancy words too 🙂)
Katie Ritter@katiecanoes
Today a student asked for some math help. But he didn't want content help, he just wanted to know that there was another person working alongside, silently cheering for him, ready to answer a question or 2. Sometimes it's the silent support, the adjacency, the propinquity.
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@curtisperry I feel like this could be a great way to help students see the importance of the human part of writing. Could they revise after talking about how personality and life experience can be captured in diction and writing style?
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