Mrs. Dutton💜

Grace & Ellarae are leaders in @TrafalgarPS's Indigenous Student Club. Leading up to Sept 30 they prepped announcements to educate about #OrangeShirtDay. On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Grace wore her regalia & performed a jingle dress dance for the school community

@GiwedinAnangKwe Your kids are so lucky to have you mama bearing for them💜

Indigenous mamas- would you say this is universal for us? I’m a really nice person but my child was being harmed this week and in relentlessly advocating for them I turned into literal mama bear today. Hurt my child and I turn into a female version of my dad… 🐻🤯😡 1/2

In my observation over 30 years as a K-8 teacher in the system, the Ontario elementary teaching force is overwhelmingly white women. It’s impossible to not see it. In my last year I was in a school that had only one male teacher, and every teacher in the school was white except the Indigenous language teacher. The school was over 50% Indigenous kids. I can tell you from personal experience from the perspective of a student AND a parent- REPRESENTATION MATTERS! (the hill I will always die on!) ✊🏽🧡

@GiwedinAnangKwe @PAlgonquin @TVDSB @GiwedinAnangKwe it was incredible! Thank you for sharing your culture in such a beautiful and memorable way!💜

Had so much fun with the Grade 1’s at @PAlgonquin today, learning about Indigenous beadwork. Beads are powerful and help us tell our stories. Ss got to communicate important aspects of their identity through simple beadwork strings. Miigwetch @MrsLDutton for having me! 💕 @TVDSB

This is what a Canadian human rights crisis actually looks like! This community is 20 minutes outside of London, Ontario. Your children share classrooms with these children. It’s time for people to stand up and speak out against this grave injustice. #ldnont

Our Gr 1’s are practicing riding the bus for our field trip! First time on the bus for these kiddos! @mybigyellowbus @dwrighttvdsb @TVDSB

You hear that, @fordnation and @Sflecce? #IStandWithCUPE is trending. Communities are with education workers because education workers have always been with our communities! @osbcucscso @CUPEOntario #onpoli #onted #canlab #DontBeABully #39kIsNotEnough

Im hearing all kinds of issues about not enough EAs. Children are getting on the wrong busses and a child in the middle of the street. They all have autism in common. This is a you issue @DrFullertonMPP and @Sflecce you’re failing these children at every level #50KIsNotOk fix it

When your school's SLP shares resources, you know it will support your programming! These decodables look amazing and I cannot wait to try them with my students!! @tvdsbslp @JennGSLP @palgonquin @TVDSBKinder beyonddecodables.com/kids-books-wit…

WE need to change the wording from "Unmarked graves to Crime Scenes." Because that's what 10,000+ graves are.

@PAlgonquin we use Sentence Trees during whole class and small group instruction to practice our reading skills with decodable sentences. Ss gain confidence when reading these decodable sentences, turning an "I can't" into an "I can"! @tvdsbslp @SpecialEd_tvdsb @TVDSBLiteracy

The SLP department is honoured to have been recognized by the @LFPress. We are so proud of all of our amazing educators who are using the sound wall cards and supporting lessons to help develop their Ss' literacy skills. @fernandez_vesna @TVDSBLiteracy @TVDSB #soundwall #tvdsb

@MissTaylorOCT @PAlgonquin I love this so much! #inspirational #amazingteam

We learn together, we play together, we grow together.We belong together. #tvdsbkinder @PAlgonquin #belongingandcontributing #weareafamily

@RomanyLakeshia @PAlgonquin You are an #inspiration Miss Romany!!

Building squirrel dreys today with the kindies as our challenge of the day! Then the Ss discussed which group created the best drey for a squirrel by using the words “more” or “less”. Next on their list is planting an acorn tree to feed the squirrels🐿 @PAlgonquin

@GiwedinAnangKwe @EDUwithEmily Thank you for saying this!! It is so important to dig into the why, to take into account their circumstances. Love first!

@EDUwithEmily I will hang on for dear life to this student while they realize that I will not hurt them the way they are used to being hurt. Eventually they learn to trust me. Every kid needs a champion- especially the tough ones! ted.com/talks/rita_pie…

I don’t care if you are an administrator, a parent, a student, or anything in between. You will not disrespect me in my own classroom. Period.

@mrskmcleod @PAlgonquin @TVDSBmath My students can’t wait!!! “Will we get to do fun math next week??”…. Whoah, thanks guys! 😆

@MissLProsser @PAlgonquin @TVDSBmath Love seeing these pictures!! Just starting to put together next week's bracket:)

@PAlgonquin @TVDSBmath Thanks so much @mrskmcleod for your March Madness Math Style!! The kiddos loved exploring with math tools and choosing their favourite! So much amazing discussion!

Made a book celebrating our diverse bodies! We even got to write in Braille! @PAlgonquin @TVDSBLiteracy #gradeone @RomanyLakeshia