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At the bottom is an inexpensive way to demonstrate how being fair looks different for each of us. The cost of a box or two of bandaids. Bonus: We often use the word equality when what we mean is equity (just found this out now). The first image is equality. The second image is equity.... "Equality generally refers to equal opportunity and the same levels of support for all segments of society. Equity goes a step further and refers offering varying levels of support depending upon need to achieve greater fairness of outcomes."

Nature is healing.

Great to add humour to a serious subject and to realize there are things we can do every day to keep us from spiralling down. The impact of covid has been difficult for many. Be kind to yourself and others.

In nature, we love the variety and the diversity. Below is a video of a hummingbird moth. I happened to see one on the south side of our house a couple of years ago. I remember it looking different than the one in the video and I'm too lazy to look for the photos right now (I take a ton of photos but am HORRIBLE at any form of organization). To see a hummingbird with antennae - I thought I had discovered something never seen before! So exciting! Wouldn't it be lovely if we al...so were excited by, appreciated, and respected diversity and variety within our species? Lieutenant-General The Honourable Roméo Antonius Dallaire once said something like, "We should not tolerate our differences. We should respect them." Every time I read that, my eyes start to leak a little (I heard him say the phrase as part of a powerful talk he gave in Edmonton. Both what he said and who he is gave me shivers then and now).

The first time we do something is often fearful. Guaraanteed, we won't do it with grace nor ease. We are more likely to do it if we have support and those around us are patient as we push into our discomfort zone.

Maybe we have labeled something as a struggle when it could also be called an emergent.

School contact info: http://www.pwsd76.ab.ca/SchoolInfo/Pages/SCInformation.aspx

If you've hard a hard day or a rough night.

The chart in this article is disconcerting.

Thank you to everyone related to school. I don't know how you are doing what you're doing but I'm grateful.

These are great tips for back to school!

What a creative and wonderful solution. People with special needs are underemployed but can make wonderful employees. The kind worth fighting for.

Fascinating! Listen to 6:00 - 6:30, especially. How we View and design or educational system impacts our entire society. https://youtu.be/nHHFGo161Os

We can't only look at the environment to determine the impact. We also need to look at the impact to the specific individual.

How to make a mask stay in place all day! Good for children, for women with small faces, for men and women working out, or for anyone that wants a better seal w...ith a regular surgical mask. (It's become clear that a disclaimer is needed: You should definitely be washing your hands before you pick up and put on any mask. Also, I washed my hands before making this video and I recommend regular hand washing, even when we're not experiencing a pandemic.) See more

I've been MIA the past couple weeks as I've been devoting all my energy fighting for my life, the lives of my colleagues, and the lives of my students. . . . My... district announced Friday evening that they changed their original plan of sending students in separate setting programs back full-time at the beginning of September (while all other students remained remote), and instead all students will follow the same phase-in process--whenever that time comes. . . . I am breathing a sigh of relief. While I hate--despise, even--remote teaching, I did not want to risk my life to teach face to face before it was safe to do so. Even more, I did not want to risk losing a student. Based on research published in the Disability and Health Journal, disabled children (ages 0-17) are over 8 times more likely to contract COVID than nondisabled children (26% compared to 3% of nondisabled children), and are 160 times more likely to die from it (1.6% compared to .01% of nondisabled children). . . . Sending disabled students back in-person when all other students are learning remotely is ableist. It says that we will sacrifice the lives of disabled children when we are not willing to sacrifice the lives of nondisabled children. It says we prioritize their education over their lives. It says we are willing to accept a high rate of disabled deaths for the sake of meaningful learning, but a lower rate of nondisabled deaths is unacceptable. . . . Remote learning sucks. It is absolutely terrible. I'm having fun playing with green screens and being creative, but it is nothing compared to the work I do in-person with my students. It is not the job I signed up for, not the job I am passionate about. It highlights major inequities, it challenges the effectiveness of our broken community systems, and it is inaccessible to many students for a number of reasons. But you know what sucks more? Dying. . . . If your district is planning on bringing disabled students back before nondisabled students, speak out. Share the data. Advocate for the value of disabled lives. All students deserve a meaningful education, but you can't provide it to them if they're dead. Disabled lives are not expendable. Here's a link to the study: https://www.sciencedirect.com//artic/pii/S1936657420300674 Image description: Me in my car, with a sign attached to the rear driver's side window that reads: Remote learning sucks. Dying sucks more. #OurSafetyOurSay

Please please please register your kids for public school even if you decide not to send them. The new education funding model created by the UCP means next yea...rs education budget will be driven by the registrations as of sept 30 from the previous year. If people don’t register their kids, Kenney will absolutely gut education next year. See more

This is amazing to watch.

92F is the same as 33C. In other words, when the air is hot, the cement and pavement are too hot for your pup's paws. We have long days here so lots of morning and evening time for puppy walks.