Kristin🇨🇦💉😷

Kristin🇨🇦💉😷

@te4ch.bsky.social

ESL educator. Ottawa, Canada My posts are mostly about my class of young adult newcomers who are learning English, the language of science and the language of math.

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Plague Poems
@plaguepoems.bsky.social

I confess: had you told me when I started writing these that eventually I’d be writing them about the actual plague I would have picked a different name. And I confess: had you told me when I started writing these I’d be writing them for years I wouldn’t have started

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Kimiko Shibata
@eslfairy.bsky.social

Our taxpayer dollars are being spent at an American company (in the middle of a trade war) that offers better deals to folks walking in off the street than to teachers ordering through the Ontario Ministry of Education portal. Make it make sense!!! #OntEd

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Prof. dr. Vivienne Matthies-Boon
@vmatthiesboon.bsky.social

Today I presented on the #ethical harms and logical errors of the many #child abuse allegations in pediatric #LongCovid and #MECFS. This was part of the Socrates Stichting Summercourse. The audience was clearly shocked and moved. Lets hope, this is another drop towards change.

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Jenny Lee Shee
@jennyleeshee.bsky.social

Thanks to Doug Ford and Paul Calandra, 80,000 elementary educators have to order classroom supplies from Staples this year instead of from their school boards. I decided to do a little comparison shopping for school supplies many of us will have to order over the course of a school year. 🧵 #OntEd

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Taylor Lorenz
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social

If you watch one thing today make it this. Absolutely phenomenal debunking of the idea that social media and cell phones are causing a youth mental health crisis, and who that false narrative ultimately serves

ted.comWhat we're getting wrong about teens and techFor years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u...

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Plague Poems
@plaguepoems.bsky.social

A friend called to see if I had plans in case I lose power, so I told her I lost any power I had a long time ago and ever since I’ve been running on anger, fear, and hope, to which she responded she meant losing power in the storm, so I said: I also have a flashlight.

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Larry Ferlazzo
@larryferlazzo.bsky.social

Video: Official World Cup Song Would Be Great For ELLs – & All Other Students, Too! larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/06/11/v...

larryferlazzo.edublogs.orgVideo: Official World Cup Song Would Be Great For ELLs – & All Other Students, Too!The new official World Cup song would be a great one for English Language Learners – and for all other students, too. It’s about doing your best and perseverance. Having ELLs listen to …

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Tara Moriarty
@moriartylab.bsky.social

Canadian COVID Forecast: May 9 - May 22, 2026 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: AB HIGH: CAN, BC, MB, NL, North, SK MODERATE: NS, ON, PEI, QC About 1 in 188 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

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Tara Moriarty
@moriartylab.bsky.social

Canadian COVID Forecast: Apr 25 - May 8, 2026 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: none HIGH: NL, SK MODERATE: CAN, AB, BC, MB, North, NS, ON, PEI, QC About 1 in 248 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

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Tara Moriarty
@moriartylab.bsky.social

Canadian COVID Forecast Apr 25 - May 8, 2026 CANADA MODERATE [decreasing] About 1 of every 248 people is infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections: 7.2 x higher -Long COVID: 5.0 x higher -Hospitalizations: 3.7 x higher -Deaths: 2.3 x higher

Kristin🇨🇦💉😷
@te4ch.bsky.social

"Sometime in May, the board will tell the principals then the principals will tell the teachers that our biggest expenditure is on photocopying. We will be chided and told to be more aware and to print only what we need and to offer more things online. "

Amanda Potts@ahpotts.bsky.social

The Toronto Star recently ran a story asking "Is the textbook dead?" I have thoughts about this question.

persistenceandpedagogy.comIs the textbook dead? #SOLC26 28/31The first I hear of his plan is when he pops in to pick up something he has printed for a class, and I ask how his classes are going. I haven’t seen him in a few days, but that’s not surprising: he’s a new teacher with a full load of courses, and I know that’s tough. Still, he cheerily tells me all is well, then, in passing says, “So, about Hamlet: I think I’m just going to sort of, you know, touch on the main points and cover it in two weeks.
Kristin🇨🇦💉😷
@te4ch.bsky.social

Driving past Toronto today, I saw a billboard advertising Orlando. Its tagline was "Skip the winter in Orlando", and my first thought was - we are Florida, we are. I guess they had a whole different meaning in mind. #USBoycott

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Rachel Collishaw
@rcollishaw.bsky.social

So excited to share the second blog post in our Voting Around the World series - voting methods. More coming soon along with classroom activities for Canadian teachers! #edusky electionsanddemocracy.ca/news/voting-...

electionsanddemocracy.caVoting Around the World: Voting methods | Elections Canada's Civic EducationVoting is one of the most powerful tools in a democracy. Around the world, people vote in a variety of ways: publicly or privately, on paper or electronically.
Kristin🇨🇦💉😷
@te4ch.bsky.social

When you hear them say "Avoid it like the plague" Remember that it doesn't mean what you thought it meant.

Plague Poems@plaguepoems.bsky.social

When you hear them say
they have been sick,
they have been “sick as a dog,”
it is important to recognize
how very unfair this is
to say about dogs,
for to keep getting sick
because you are ignoring an ongoing pandemic
is not to be “sick as a dog,” but sick as a human.

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Canada Strong Masks
@canadastrong.bsky.social

Rapid Tests Sale! Buy 3, get 1 free on all rapid tests. Mix and match - every 4th box is free! Discount automatically applied in cart. No code required. Be ready to quickly diagnose sniffles, coughs, and scratchy throats with rapid tests for Flu A&B, RSV, Adenovirus, Strep, and COVID.

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tern
@1goodtern.bsky.social

🚨 Are people sicker now than in 2019? Civil servants in England are. Sickness absence rates have *risen by between 12% to 23% across the age groups*. Are things getting worse? It certainly looks like it. This is exactly what we predicted repeat covid infection would do.

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Amanda Potts
@ahpotts.bsky.social

Is it AI? What happens when the students says no? And what does the doubt do to us?

persistenceandpedagogy.comIs it AI?“Miss!” my student wailed, “my story is showing up as AI on all the checkers, but it’s not AI. I swear I wrote it!” Forgive me if I immediately doubted her. The story was due that day and, from what I could tell, she’d spent at least as much time in class playing on her phone under her desk as she had actually writing. I also knew that she was very grades-driven, often sharing her results with friends as they measured their success and, I think, some of their self-worth by the numbers on their assignments.