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How do you define educational #impoverishment? Flourishing in #Education? What do you believe to be the goal of #publiceducation? How are you working/planning towards reaching this overarching goal? Provocative...from Decolonizing Education-Nourishing the Learning Spirit (Battiste, p99): ...the world will suffer immeasurably with a loss of the ‘ethnosphere,’ which is ... the sum total of all the ‘aesthetic, intellectual wealth contained within the invisible folds of sound’ leaving us as a people and a species, and Earth itself, deeply impoverished.

Absolutely amazing! Inspiring us all to engage in changing the narrative in #onted Please take some time to listen and discuss with a colleague, your school, your PLNs, and system leaders #KidsCan #IHaveAChoice #StudentVoice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OuJ8Z5ogy0 Creating a vision and building that vision through action is key. What are your next steps systemicallychanging structures (informal and formal) and practicesto #endstreaming #K12 #GoodTrouble #CRRP #Equity #CriticalConsciousness

There is a $15 000 scholarship opportunity to study in the Master of Teaching Mathematics program through UWaterloo. Preference is for indigenous secondary math teachers followed by secondary math teachers that teach predominantly indigenous students. Info: https://notes.math.ca//master-of-mathematics-for-teachers/ Deadline for submission is May 1, 2021.

Rethinking #learningloss: Our students are resilient, not broken, and as long as kids feel like their job is to come to school to be fixed, their hearts won’t be in their own work https://www.theatlantic.com//how-to-get-our-kids-b/618269/ #assetbased #strengthsbased #studentidentity #equity

Are you curious about how you can make improvements in teaching and student learning through tiny shifts (Breakspear & Jones, 2021)? Learn more: https://link.medium.com/T1tCYg66rfb #TeachingSprints #InstructionalLeadership #LeadershipInEducation #ContinuousImprovement #CollaborativeProfessionalism

Looking to change the narrative from closing the #achievement gap to opening #opportunities for #knowingyourlearners? Frame your #equity and #inclusion conversations about leading, teaching and learning with the works of Rochelle Gutierrez. For example: How will you and your team(s) ...begin the process of privileging #equityoverequality, #educationoverschooling, and #power / #identity over #access and #achievement? https://www.researchgate.net//Embracing-the-Inherent-Tensi