A must read 👇🏼 for anyone wondering why the gondola is a terrible decision.

something about a prairie thunderstorm after a hot day to remind you that our relatives will always live here, in the sky, all around, no matter what visitors come, no matter what nefarious actions these visitors commit or subsequent apologies they make.

Here at Edmonton’s Sacred Heart of the First Peoples Church where Pope Francis will visit Monday. Streets are blocked off & stationed with police. This area is usually filled with homeless people, most of them Indigenous, but it’s been cleared out…

Education & healthcare are at a breaking point. Prices for food/utilities/gas etc. are untenable. We need safe injection sites & mental health supports & more. Ppl are struggling. I’ll vote NDP, but the comms strategy needs work. Dunking on Kenney isn’t enough to win an election.

It’s almost that time of year! Educators can download this free poster about how to help their Muslim students this #Ramadan !

Written by Aya Khalil Illustrated by me!

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As part of our commitment to ensuring equitable access to PL opportunities, ELAC will sponsor 5 teachers who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color with $500 to attend our Disrupt, Engage, Empower conference. Find out more here: elacata.ca/events/bipoc-c…

Interesting to read this thread right after the UCP has increased funding for charter schools in Alberta. Feels like a glimpse into a future I don’t want.

As educators, we must be careful of when our good intentions can nonetheless hurt students—a thread.
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Are you Indigenous? Thinking of becoming a teacher? Do it. We need more Indigenous teachers in the education system 🙌🏾.

If you are in support of the “freedom from mandates” protests, then what are you doing to make sure your protest isn’t being organized, co-opted or funded by alt-right extremist groups which are using your disaffection with governments for their own agendas?

Talking about white supremacy is not divisive.
What is actually divisive is white supremacy.

In collaboration with the Black_Teachers_Association_ We are planning the first ever #BSASummit for February 2022! In the next few weeks we’ll be reaching out to BSA’s in #AB vendors, sponsors, presenters, & leaders in the community. Teachers, allies, community, let’s connect!

Folks attacking teachers act like our goal is to work remotely. In reality, teaching online is both more work + far less joy. We don’t want to teach online—we just want ourselves, our students, + our families to be safe. We could be fighting for safe in-person schooling together!

I hate online teaching. For myself and for my students. But do you know what I hate more? Knowing Omicron will likely rip through the unboosted/unvaccinated populations of students in mere weeks and worrying how many will have severe outcomes or long Covid. We need a plan NOW.

I have two questions:
1) Are white men okay?
2) How do you decide who is alpha of the alphas? Do they take turns?

If the World Juniors are getting cancelled bc of COVID, I struggle to see how AB schools stay open. This tourny had all the time/money/effort invested & it still spread. Schools have way less resources. Kenney needs to make a decision now to give teachers & families time to prep.

I’m at the point of Christmas where I almost wish I had COVID so I had an excuse to isolate.

(This is a joke & I don’t wish COVID on any1. I love my family, but extra ppl is rough as an ADHD’er prone to sensory overload. + the unresolved tension of being the eldest daughter 🙃)