@kathyhibbert
Distinguished University Prof., Western University, London Canada 🇨🇦 #EduSKY, #MedEdSky #curriculum #multiliteracies https://www.edu.uwo.ca/about/faculty-profiles/kathryn-hibbert/index.html Wife, mom, grandma. Supervisor of the best graduate students ever!
“We need change, but we need that change to be funding & investments in our schools, not shutting out community & local voices; not taking away transparency & accountability"
Today'S Farmer todaysfarmer.ca/news/local-n... #OnEdu #Onpoli
In appreciation for @peggyblair coming to talk to our book club, we are purchasing her books from Rebound Press and donating them to our local libraries.
#supportCanadianauthors
#booksky
Seeking profit over substance. I encourage you to check out Rebound Press and read her books along with other great Canadian authors who are finding their way back into press.
#booksky
#bookclub
#mystery
Thanks so much to @peggblair.bsky.social for joining our bookclub tonight. What an interesting discussion! One of the reasons why I love her books is precisely because of the characters she develops and how they include Canadians and places in Canada that are so rarely in books published by those
@curriculumjournal.bsky.social is now on BlueSky. Please follow
32 years is the difference. I have been an educator for 44 but only started the t-track in 2008 and by then the changes were already happening quickly
I was “eligible” to retire in 2013 but I love what I am doing and I haven’t put off doing something until retirement so I am not a good one to ask… Everyone says you just know when it is time.
Nature Editorial: Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research. Around the world, governments are demanding that research funding follow broader political priorities. They should be careful what they wish for. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
To the first responders and teachers in Tumbler Ridge who acted immediately to help those in need — you are the best of Canada.
We came to Tumbler Ridge so that this community, who has been through the unthinkable, may know that Canadians are with you.
Why can’t we rush in with mental health resources before a tragedy? We spare nothing after the fact to comfort the grieving - but I am pretty sure they would have appreciated appropriate support built in across the system so people get meaningful help and don’t end up committing murder!
Good for them!
Looking good Terry! Heading out for dinner? Wish him happy birthday from us!
This is so familiar…#OntEd #Reading #Teaching
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A new blog from @torontomet.bsky.social's Centre for Free Expression looks at how decisions about what students can read are increasingly shaped by executive directives instead of classroom professionals or democratic debate, raising concerns about intellectual freedom. Read more:
But the Board of Peace! And the other 8 wars he has ended!
It already does. The question is whether we will meet that change with fear, or with the confidence that our lives, our work, and our future are strengthened, not threatened, when we make room for one another. /9
That choice did not erase challenges, but it gave us the capacity to face them together.
The question before us now is not whether difference will change our communities. 8/9
What truly diminishes us is not difference, but the decision to retreat from one another.
I know this because I have seen the alternative up close. I have lived in a community that chose welcome over withdrawal, curiosity over suspicion, and shared responsibility over zero-sum thinking. 7/9
But fear is not a fact. It is a response, and responses can be changed. Communities do not grow weaker when they widen their circle; they grow more resilient. Economies do not stall because newcomers arrive; they adapt, innovate, and endure. 6/9
Scarcity has become the story we tell ourselves, even in places that once understood cooperation as a necessity rather than a risk. 5/9
Today, however, fear has targeted difference. Difference is too often framed as a threat: jobs to be lost, opportunities to be hoarded, a sense that someone else’s gain must mean our own decline. 4/9
Difference strengthened our community and enriched our lives in ways we could not have predicted at the outset. I have seen this over and over in my 42 years of teaching. 3/9
Learning about other cultures made our lives larger. It expanded our sense of what was possible, of who belonged, and of how interconnected our futures truly are. 2/9
I was raised in a home that opened its doors to the world. After my brother returned from a Rotary exchange, students from across the globe came to visit our farm. My parents (and others) sponsored a Vietnamese family fleeing after the fall of Saigon: events deeply instructive to my life. 1/9
I have worked with Anna since 2001. This article captures her humility beautifully. She will be missed by students, teachers and faculty at #westernuedu and across the province of Ontario! Consider donating to the student award in her honour! #teacher #amazinghuman
In Mexico, bus drivers were placed on exercise bikes while buses passed inches away.
The goal wasn't punishment, it was perspective.
By feeling the fear cyclists experience in traffic, drivers learned why safe distance and respect on the road matter.
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Four-time Grammy Award nominee Jesse Welles performs his song "Join Ice."
Bob Dylan once said a single folk singer could defeat an entire army. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our man.
Anytime!
Sounds amazing!!
