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Bar chart titled Read Aloud to Improve Writing. "When students were asked to proofread texts aloud, they found up to 12 percentage points more typos, grammatical mistakes, and errors in word choice, a 2022 study found." The bar chart shows the difference between accuracy during silent and aloud reading: silent, 59%, and aloud, 71%.

Here’s a useful tip to help students improve their writing. ✍️

Ask them to read their work aloud. While it may not feel as natural—or modest—as reading silently, it can help them catch often-overlooked errors, a 2022 study found.

This is one of the BEST things

Jason Reynolds on What Fires the Imagination of Young Readers The best-selling author on why "inappropriate" topics may be exactly what teen readers need, and the importance of raising the hair on the backs of readers' necks in the first 50 pages.

On a very hot day in June, I took a risk. I made a beeline to the front of the room at ISTE so I could shake hands w/ Jason Reynolds.

Nervously, I blurted out, "I know you have to leave, but my editor would never forgive me if I didn't ask to interview you."

My latest for @edutopia.org:

Book Bans ‘Kill Creativity,’ Sow Self-Doubt in Authors For the past few years, author Charlotte Sullivan Wild has been working on a picture book about an LGBTQ+ family who learns to cope with one member’s deployment to the military. The story is inspired…

As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else

Things I said today in my JH classroom:
- don’t blow bubbles inside
- you took 8 minutes to get a drink
- everybody farts
- put the Pokémon cards in your backpack
- your fruit by the foot wrapper isn’t a weapon
- I owe you a candy
- you can draw on your arm when you’re finished your assignment

I think it’s time to break out my puzzle board again.

My living room in Strathmore, AB!

Immigrants are not Alberta’s problem. They’re here legally. They’re the ones serving you coffee at Timmies.

Populist governments need a scapegoat, an “out-group”.

For Hitler it was Jews, for Trump it’s Latinos.

It’s an un-Canadian and deplorable political strategy.

#ableg

Larry the cat celebrates 15 years as chief mouser for the British prime minister Larry the cat recently celebrated 15 years of working as chief mouser for the U.K. government. He has become a popular figure in U.K. politics.

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Picture of Gurdeep onstage giving a motivational speech

Learning about joy and belonging in education with @gurdeep.ca at #PDTCA2026

Watching Men’s Big Air where the snow is coming down and outside my own window is a blizzard. Winter!

I believe that the development of AI tools is not to make human life easier but to save businesses and corporations money.

We can try to make AI work for us as much as we want, but the technological & business aim is for companies to profit and to pay humans less.

Join us in Calgary next Saturday! Sign our petition in person, and meet with your fellow community leaders!

You asked, we answered. We've got three campaign launch events across Alberta next weekend!
#waternotcoal #coalpetition #alberta #lethbridge

#AuthorsLoveTeachers and they are showing it with this amazing giveaway!

SIGN THE PETITION Do you believe that there should be no new coal mining in the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies? If so, sign this petition to have your voice heard. SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15TH, 2026 10AM-2PM BAKER PARK, NORTH OF THE SUNBOWL AMPHITHEATER 9333 SCENIC BOW RD. NW CALGARY, AB

Signing opportunity in Calgary tomorrow.

#WaterNotCoal

Black entrepreneurship. Black creativity. Black leadership. YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi

The story of Alberta cannot be told without the contributions of Black Albertans, past and present.

This month, and every month, we celebrate Black excellence and the future it continues to build.

Happy Black History Month, Alberta!

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All schools should be sanctuaries of safety and belonging.

We grieve as a nation and extend our support, love, and compassion to everyone affected by the Tumbler Ridge tragedy.

Dear Future Ones by Jacqueline Woodson Dear Future Ones who do not understand an old woman puzzling over January crocuses and the delicate shoots of tulips poking through winter leaves Winter leaves us questioning the absence of snow. A headshake, a sigh, a mind turning inside the past: Twenty years on this planet and my daughter can count snowstorms lived through on a single hand. Oh Dear Future Ones, I apologize for decades of Styrofoam lunches eaten happily because the world would always be the way I knew it as a child. I apologize from tin cans thrown into trashcans. For the many years I loved helium-filled mylar balloons. I apologize for the time I bought an expensive deodorant, desired because I could spray it instead of rolling it on. I apologize for the magical thinking that led me to believe this world as I knew it would always be here and bred you into with my mind on other freedoms cuz how many dreams of freedom can a single body hold now old, you see me back bent and frowning grateful for iceless sidewalks all winter long and terrified. Oh Dear Future Ones. You do not know a world that isn't already burning, a time when flowers bloomed in seasons we understood (Because once there were seasons here in New York). Once snow barricaded me into my childhood home. Brooklyn. Blizzard of 78. We waited, my siblings and I, gleefully imagining a June thaw the four of us skeletons heartbreakingly remembered. Were history, we said. As though we already knew what was coming. As though, Future Ones, we already saw you out there reading about us and remembering snow.

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Dear Future Ones by Jacqueline Woodson is the newest poem in my teaching bag. Woodson's care and grief are a reminder that we contain multitudes and our desire for a better world includes the ground we stand on.
28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 7

Sunday To Do:
- watch Olympics
- hang out and eat good food with The Brunch Bunch
- buy candy grams for school
- watch Olympics
- mark grade 7 paragraphs
- watch Super Bowl and eat ribs

Class Size Isn’t the Whole Story: Classroom Complexity Is Driving Teachers to the Breaking Point - CTF-FCE Third edition of the Parachute Educator Survey Series reveals why educator overwhelm is the norm and not the exception.

📊 New Parachute Survey Findings

Canadian classrooms aren’t just getting bigger: they’re getting more complex.

Almost 7000 educators across Canada tell us what’s really driving burnout, workload, and attrition.

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Alberta environment news so far in 2026 | The Narwhal From nuclear power to hunting, here’s what the Alberta government has been up to on environment issues so far in 2026

What’s happened in Alberta so far this year? @drewanderson.bsky.social breaks down the announcements you may have missed.

Buckle up, it might be another one of those years. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-envi...

Alberta vetting process limits sexual education materials for students, some experts say | CBC News Some sexual health education experts, advocacy groups and teachers say new provincial approval requirements have left educators with inadequate options to teach Alberta’s health curriculum.

Last fall, a new vetting process took effect for sex education resources and presenters in Alberta.

Teachers and sex education experts say what has been approved is limited and has significant gaps. And they’re worried about the effects for students of watered-down sex ed #AbEd #AbLeg

To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.

Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes. n.pr/4c3cdzs

It’s not every day that Justices offer up a free remedial lesson in governance and law in a public open letter.

But in Danielle Smiths Alberta, where she has said she wants to control and influence the courts, it’s today.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Newly updated today:

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Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

New details show vigorous, pricey process to identify explicit books in Edmonton schools | CBC Accessibility The 329 pages of records, obtained by CBC News, reveal that 11 teachers were hired by Edmonton Public Schools for a four-week summer project to review books for sexually explicit content, at a cost of...

My colleague, Julia Wong, filed an access to info request to find out how Edmonton Public Schools came up with its first list of books to remove from shelves to comply with new provincial orders (that have since changed). The premier accused the board of "vicious compliance." #AbLeg #AbEd #yeg

Donate to Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Lawsuit & Injunction, organized by Deanna Kappo Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is a First Nation in Treaty No. 8 territory. The… Deanna Kappo needs your support for Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Lawsuit & Injunction

Looking for a tangible way to fight back against the separatists right now?

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation has stepped up to be the pointy end of the legal spear, but those battles aren’t free.

You can help them fight back for all of us!

#abpoli #cdnpoli

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Canada falls short of 2025 conservation target | The Narwhal Ottawa says it remains committed to hitting its next conservation milestone even as it races to expand critical minerals production

The federal government said it would protect 25% of land and water by 2025. By December 2024, it had conserved 13.8% of land and fresh water and 15.5% of ocean areas, falling well short as habitat loss continues and pressure mounts to expand critical mineral production. thenarwhal.ca/canada-misse...

Alberta Funds Public Schools A Citizen Initiative petitioning the Government of Alberta to improve its Public Education funding model.

With 26 days left, the “Alberta Funds Public Schools” petition is only a quarter of the way to their goal….

Here’s where you can sign.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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