Roberta Lind

BREAKING: The United Nations just nominated the Islamic Republic of Iran to help shape policy on women’s rights, human rights, disarmament, and terrorism. Yes, you read that right. Why on earth are we funding this monstrosity?

I work at a private Catholic school where I make about a third less than I would at a public. But we are really good on behavior. My job satisfaction as a teacher is at an all time high.

Teaching has what I’d call a strategy problem. We’ve been trained, often repeatedly in professional development, to rely on strategies, complete with catchy names and acronyms. It creates a sense that good teaching is a recipe: follow these steps, apply this strategy, and learning will happen. But evidence-informed teaching, grounded in the science of how we learn, doesn’t really work that way. Take Rosenshine’s principles as a strong example of effective teaching: teach new material in small steps, ask questions, check for understanding, scaffold challenging tasks, provide guided and independent practice, review material daily, weekly, and monthly, model thinking, and obtain high success rates. These aren’t strategies to be followed in a rigid sequence. And that matters, because many teachers have become so saturated with “strategy teaching” that anything framed as another strategy can feel overwhelming or even off-putting. On the other hand, some won’t buy into an idea at all unless it’s packaged as a clear set of strategies. In reality, we may be overcomplicating good teaching. It’s less about adopting the right strategy and more about refining a set of effective techniques. The key question shifts from “What strategy should I use?” to something more practical and flexible: What technique will I use for daily review? What technique will I use to present new material in small steps? This shift keeps the focus on how learning actually happens, rather than on trying to implement the next new strategy.

INMATES RUNNING THE ASYLUM: The U.N. just elected China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan to their Committee on NGOs, which oversees the work of human rights groups at the U.N. and decides which to accredit. ECOSOC members who backed this include: 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇴🇳🇱🇦🇺🇨🇭🇦🇹🇫🇮

🚨 Adultos en el Congo metiendo a niños en bolsas de plástico para venderlos como mano de obra infantil en minas de cobalto. Nadie visibiliza el grave problema de esclavitud infantil en la industria minera de la región... ¿Lo ha denunciado ya BLM?

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 British Columbia lost 19,000 more jobs in March, after losing 20,000 in February. People are choosing to take jobs out of B.C. because our government keeps making life harder with tax hikes and reckless debt.

People want skill to feel natural. It usually starts by feeling unnatural, even mechanical. The naturalness comes later, after you've earned it.

BC ranks dead last amongst all provinces for private sector job growth since 2019. Now add record deficits, and credit downgrades and you have the NDP playbook.

One of the governments with a record of beating women to death for not covering their hair in public, has been nominated to a committee responsible for policy on women’s rights. One of the governments with a record of executing their citizens for questioning the government, has been nominated to a committee responsible for policy on human rights. One of the governments with a record of refusing to stop illegally developing nuclear weapons, has been nominated to a committee responsible for policy on disarmament. One of the governments with a record of terrorism snd financing and directing terror proxies, has been nominated to a committee responsible for policy on counterterrorism. And Australia, Canada, the UK and many of the EU countries support this. Are they naive? Complicit? Afraid to offend? One thing they definitely are, is fucked.

Who votes for the Islamic Republic of Iran to shape policy on women's rights, human rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention? Canada. At the UN. Today.

A whole convoy of empty oil tankers on the way to the US to fill up. It could have been Canada but we have land acknowledgments to do and carbon tax instead.

When will you be resigning and running in a by-election @MarilynGladuSL?

Israel NEVER attacked any country without being attacked or threatened to be attacked by them first.

The YouCubed people seem unhinged. The science of math people have no math expertise? YouCubed just knows that these myths are actually correct? This is from a mass email from YouCubed.

Engaged students who still aren't learning — that's the ‘Engagement Myth’, one of the most familiar poor proxies for learning. Part 2/6 of the ⚗️DistillED Poor Proxy series with new playbook: newsletter.jamieleeclark.com/p/poor-proxies…

UBC hired NDP Leader Avi Lewis and his wife Naomi Klein as professors even though neither has a master’s or PhD. Lewis was paid $92,000 in 2024-2025. He taught one course. Klein was paid $277,000. She taught a graduate seminar & co-taught a second-year course.

I confess to using my 6th grade grammar book to teach 5th graders to diagram sentences. A frmr student, now a 5th grade teacher, just asked where she can get it. '82 to '26 = 44 years. Sometimes the innovation is 'doing what works'.

Mark Carney assembling his majority government.

Have you noticed a pattern? France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously recognize Palestine at exactly the same time. France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously demand a ceasefire with Hamas. France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously demand a ceasefire with Iran. France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously demand a two state solution. France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously consistently condemn any action taken by Israel to defend itself. France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously refuse to help the US in the Strait of Hormuz. France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously call for Lebanon to be part of this ceasefire. Time after time after time, France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously stand with terrorists and against the west.

Interesting contrast. Two weeks ago, US law enforcement exposed an Iranian plot to assassinate Ghamari. This week, Canadian law enforcement threatens Ghamari for saying mean things about the Iranian regime.