Alison Palmer
@alijanepalmer
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Edmontonian. Social Democrat. Radical Downtown Urbanite. Teacher of Tweens. Mummy of a Rescue Pup. Lover of Cute Earrings.
Edmonton/Treaty Six
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My students seem to think that because my Twitter powers got us a visit from our Prime Minister, that maybe they will work to get a visit from
@danjlevy
. I mean, we are an arts school. He could teach us about being a writer/director/actor. 🤔🇨🇦
#onlinelearning
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And thank you
@telfordk
for replying when you didn’t have to reply, following up when you didn’t have to follow up, and giving us a day to remember.
❤️🇨🇦
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I love taxes. I love paying taxes. I love healthcare and education and roads and police and street sweeping and the military and public art and waste management and, well, basically everything that makes us so fortunate to live in Canada.
Happy Tax Freedom Day, when you finally start working for yourself, not government.
#TaxFreedomDay
To learn more, visit
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And that lead to 32 grade 6 kids and their very excited teacher having pretty much the coolest school day ever.
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I’ve been trying so hard to make online learning fun and engaging. These kids deserve that. They’ve lost so much, given up so much, and tried so hard to do their best through it all.
Thank you Prime Minister
@JustinTrudeau
for giving us the gift of your time.
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Let’s talk for a minute about the cost of being a lady bigger than a C cup. I just spent $462 on bras. How many did I buy? Two. 😕
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Today was an amazing day!
@servicerotties
brought his human to our grade 6 class to teach us all about accessibility! I hope this is an experience my students will remember for a long time. Kuno might even have surpassed the PM as my favourite guest ever. 😉
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If we could get a first shot into all education workers now, a second shot could be scheduled before the end of August. We could all head back to school in September with a huge layer of protection. Why not
@jkenney
@AdrianaLaGrange
??
#ableg
#abed
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One of the many reasons I am voting for
@AmarjeetSohiYEG
is his positive, respectful campaign. I haven’t once heard him disparage or even speak about another candidate. He is presenting his platform and his ideas. Candidates that attack him make me think they know he’s ahead.
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@AdrianaLaGrange
I have dedicated my life to other people’s children. I lie awake at night worrying about them. I love them. To say that teachers are only concerned about teachers is just awful.
#ableg
#abed
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Dear
@jkenney
and
@AdrianaLaGrange
, we go back to school in 5 weeks. Please provide the funding to do it safely. Schools need $ for PPE, hand sanitizer and cleaning supplies.
#ableg
#abed
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Dear
@AdrianaLaGrange
, We go back to school in 4 weeks. Still waiting to hear how your plan, with no dedicated COVID $, will possibly keep our students and school staff safe. We need more custodians, EAs & subs. We need mandatory masks. We need increased capacity for testing.
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@KatyIngraham
My theory: he is a person who went into politics to impose his ideology, which is basically little to no government at all. So a crisis like this, I think, has him paralyzed. It requires government intervention and support. Two things he doesn’t believe in.
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After a lot of thought, I decided to volunteer for the online teaching pool and today learned that’s what I’ll be doing. It’s tough. I didn’t love online in the spring. But I want our online kids to get the best possible programming. So, here we go!
#abed
#ableg
#SafeSeptemberAB
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Today was an inspiring and uplifting day in gr 6. We met the wonderful
@andrewphung
! Andrew told us about how he built his arts career in AB why it is so important for all kids to see themselves represented in film & TV.
@EPSBNews
#abed
#AsianHeritageMonth
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When I hear someone complaining about “wokeness” I assume they are someone who is used to saying whatever they want, whenever they want, and now they’re mad that they can’t.
#ableg
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I’ve been delivering
@AmarjeetSohiYEG
signs and lots of the houses I go to have Indigenous Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter and Hate Has No Home Here signs. Also, lots of rainbow flags. Just something I noticed. ☺️❤️🧡💛💚💜
#yeg
#TeamSohi
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@MissJodie
@VancityJax
For all the Gen X ladies out there who are still a little in love Pacey Witter, it’s so great to see your man so in love with such a cool lady.
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“I’m scared of the person living under a bridge in my neighborhood but I also don’t want housing built so people don’t have to live under bridges.” 🙄
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I’m half vaxxed with that sweet AZ!! I’d like to thank my bestie,
@JustinTrudeau
(we still talk about you almost every day in grade 6),
@AnitaOakville
and SCIENCE!
#ableg
#GenXZeneca
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I want to say thank you to
@charlesadler
for asking me about teachers’ mental health. Teachers are great at putting on a smile every day and doing the emotional labor of our job. But that is going to be very difficult to do this school year.
#abed
#ableg
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And that lead to a reply I never, ever expected to get.
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In my mind
#EricOToole
is even more kind, compassionate, reasonable, & yes handsome, than Justin Trudeau. He marches in Pride Parades with his kids and promotes women. He supports a UBI and pharmacare. He champions reconciliation. But he wants to save $ so will defund the police.
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Two weeks tomorrow I go back to work. So here’s my two week thread.
@AdrianaLaGrange
@jkenney
@CMOH_Alberta
I know you’re banking on very few children getting sick. I hope with all my heart that you’re right. It’s a big gamble.
#abed
#ableg
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Good morning, Premier!
This morning in my classroom, 20/24 kids are wearing masks. And in the hallways (we are a school of over 1000), I’ve seen 4 other kids without masks.
You are playing to a very small minority. But you already know that.
#ableg
#abed
The
@ABFedLabour
is in court today seeking an order to force all kids to wear masks in school.
The AFL is a legal affiliate of the NDP.
Children have carried an unfair share of the burden during Covid.
It’s time for the NDP and AFL to stop.
Let kids be kids!
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This article is another reminder that
@AlbertaEd
is completely inept. We used to have curriculum that was seen as some of the best in the world. Now, a complete disaster. Nothing about the roll-out of the new curriculum has been a success.
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Pride Month is coming up and I’d like to ask
@YourAlberta
to fly the Pride Flag for the ENTIRE MONTH.
@LeelaAheer
@JanisIrwin
@RachelNotley
#ableg
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Somebody help me understand. If schools are not a major cause of COVID spread, WHY DID YOU CLOSE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE?? The bumbling incompetence and terrible messaging is just staggering.
@AdrianaLaGrange
@CMOH_Alberta
#abed
#ableg
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See those three whole likes my cute retweet got? One of them was from the awesome
@telfordk
. That got me thinking...
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Alberta, please remember this in three years. Please remember that when we asked questions about the health and safety of your children that we were accused of fearmongering.
#ableg
@JanisIrwin
Don't fearmonger on this important issue.
#Abed
re-entry plan is already working. Students have been learning in-person for summer school under our guidelines, and there have been no outbreaks. Additionally, childcare centres have reopened successfully with no outbreaks.
#ableg
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@nhungtrandavies
I’m genuinely curious why you think our grade 6 kids should spend so much of their time memorizing facts about American government? Also why you think a curriculum full of skills that aren’t, in fact, skills is inspiring?
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Oraaaaaal question period! 😉
Grade 6 thoughts:
“Do they always wear such fancy, uncomfortable clothes?”
“Why are they so mean to each other?”
“Why doesn’t the premier say madam speaker??”
Me: “There’s my bestie!”
@pancholi_rakhi
#ableg
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Alberta teachers want high-quality public education for all kids. That includes choice. Religion, sports, arts, second languages, immersion, academics, traditional approaches, IB, mental health, learning supports, science focus. All found in public schools.
#abed
#ableg
Alberta’s government enhanced the protections for parents to choose the best education for their kids. We’re also ending the recent obsession with teaching fads like discovery math to provide a strong curriculum for all.
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If you have concerns with what’s happening in your child’s school, please don’t take those concerns to teachers. Go higher. The highest. If you get my drift.
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#QueerKidsAB
your teachers love you. They want you to be successful and happy. They want you to love yourself. They want you to have the support of your peers. They want your schools to be safe.
#abed
#ableg
#abvote
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Today in gr. 6 we met
#yegcc
mayoral candidate
@AmarjeetSohiYEG
. He spoke about how both his work and life experiences will help him to be a great mayor. He encouraged us to talk to our families about Reconciliation and to learn how we can call do our part.
#yeg
#abed
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This is it. This is the quote that will ultimately break me. It has been a cascade of a thousand tiny, little straws, and this is the one.
#ableg
Dr. Hinshaw is comparing this year's Calgary Stampede to that of 2013. She says just like Albertans banded together to host the event following the flood, they will do so this year.
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Most importantly, please know that your child’s teacher cares deeply about them and will do everything in their power to keep them safe. Please remember that their power is limited.
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I realize that the new SS curriculum released yesterday is a draft. I hope it is a very rough draft. Putting aside the fact that much of the content is bonkers and it is way too huge to even remotely cover in 150 minutes/week, it's complete unusable from a teaching perspective.
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And finally, please know that all of these things will apply to your child and their education, whether you believe in COVID or not.
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Lulu for Premier! She’s smart and kind. She’s pro science! She doesn’t think your cancer diagnosis is your fault!
Or, we could just go with
@RachelNotley
.
#betteroffwithrachel
#ableg
🍊
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As I loaded my purchases into my car at Walmart a lady called out from her truck, “Are you a teacher?” When I said yes, she said, “I knew it! And all that stuff’s for your classroom, right?”
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Yesterday I cried about wearing masks at school. Today I’m mad.
@AdrianaLaGrange
@jkenney
, yesterday’s announcement was not nearly enough. We need more custodians, EAs and substitute teachers. We need $$ and we need it now. 3 weeks left to hire the people we need.
#abed
#ableg
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@ianhanomansing
As a teacher I work 5 days + many hours outside of the work week. It would be interesting if we went down to four days of school. I suppose I would work a bit less, but could see myself using that 5th day for marking/planning, etc. and finally having a full two day weekend.
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@maxfawcett
I have seen Jagmeet Singh on a bike in a suit many times and I don’t think anyone’s ever commented on that. 🙄
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Such a cute tweet, in fact, that I just couldn’t resist saying how cute it was.
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The height of irony. Many of my elementary colleagues will be returning to work tomorrow, as they have done every Monday, many of them still weeks from being vaccinated. Not to mention all the front-line healthcare and retail workers.
#ableg
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Best moment of my Friday? When my student met my student teacher, a young Black woman wearing hijab, just like her. Her face lit up. Representation really, really matters. Diversity in education really matters.
#abed
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Extracurricular is not part of teaching. It is unpaid labor done by a small handful of teachers. Quite often the young and/or non-parent teachers. And it ultimately takes away from their own health and well-being or their actual job.
I worked with teachers like this. Gone at 3:01 pm every day.Always looking for shortcuts to avoid doing anything extra. Usually miserable everyday too. Complained about everything. Extracurricular is part of teaching. If you want to leave 3:01 pm, find something else.
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@KashFida
@edmontonpolice
Is this supposed to be funny? Awful, sexist, patriarchal bullshit. So gross.
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WE’RE ALL CLOSE CONTACTS IN A CLASSROOM WE BREATH THE SAME AIR ALL DAY HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN IN A CLASSROOM OF 30 TEENS??
Sorry for the yelling.
#ableg
Will you bring back test, trace, isolate for close contacts in schools?
Hinshaw says it was challenging last year to identify who was a close contact in a classroom.
Adds full classes were quarantined, with kids missing too much time.
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Edmonton, we need to talk. I do not want to see temperatures above 0 until March. Let’s just have a nice, cold winter with some snow now and then. No melting, no rain, no deadly sidewalks. Thanks.
#yeg
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In the same vein, if you hear that a nearby school district is doing something that you think is better, don’t complain to your school district. It was the govt who made the choice to let individual boards make plans. Complain to them, about that.
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@TheRealJMcKeown
This was January 2021. I was teaching grade 6 online and his wonderful chief of staff organized a visit for us. The PM gave us a full hour of his time and answered all of our questions. He was wonderful with my students and didn’t seem to want to go at the end!
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Three weeks from today I will go back to work. I’d usually go in much earlier, but this year I think I’ll stay home as long as I possibly can. But when I do start setting up my classroom,
@AdrianaLaGrange
@CMOH_Alberta
I need your advice.
#abed
#ableg
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If your mom had to buy a black market Cabbage Patch Kid out of a trunk of someone’s car in a back alley a few days before Christmas, you’re now eligible for the AZ vaccine in Alberta.
#ableg
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Masks. This will be your choice. Please don’t expect your child’s teacher to monitor their mask-wearing. Please don’t ask the teacher to deal with another child commenting on your child’s mask choice. Please don’t comment on the teacher’s mask choice.
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Physical distancing. The great majority of elementary classrooms have tables, not individual desks that can be moved and spread out. It is too late and there is no money to equip every classroom with desks.
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Yesterday’s
#yegcc
mask vote helped me decide that I will not be voting for the incumbent in my ward.
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Who is on your dream
#yegcc
after Oct 18? I think so far mine is:
@AmarjeetSohiYEG
,
@AndrewKnack
,
@Erinforanirniq
,
@Ward4Aaron
,
@AshleyASalvador
,
@kirstengoa
,
@RhiHoyleYEG
and
@ShamairT
.
Ultimately I hope it’s just packed with women and diversity. Who are you rooting for? 😀
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“I’m allowed to protest stuff but other people aren’t.”
7 yrs ago, I led a rally at the Legislature to protest a discovery/inquiry math curric that showed
#evidence
of harm to thousands of our children. Sad to see today a protest based on fears/speculations/misinformation that could counter the progress we've made through 3 gov'ts.
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Crazy Instagram post about how you should always check under the bed and behind curtains when entering a hotel room. This amazing reply made me really laugh. Thought you’d appreciate it
@Remember_Sarah
@RottenInDenmark
@yourewrongabout
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Hand sanitizer. Honestly, I’d make sure your kid brings their own if you have the means.
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Water bottles. Please make sure your kid has one every day. If they forget, they won’t have anything to drink all day if fountains are only to be used to fill bottles. Some teachers may buy their own stock of water bottles, but please don’t expect that.
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It is clear that there is no political will for a
#SafeSeptember
. I have accepted that. At the very least, please help us to make sure that as teachers get sick, there’s someone even remotely qualified to take their place.
#VeryWorriedAB
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Speaking of bathrooms. My large school has 2 custodians during the day. And I think 8 bathrooms? There will not be any money to hire more custodial staff to clean bathrooms throughout the day.
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Hand washing. Some classrooms have sinks. Lucky! Mine does not. Students who do not have a sink in their classroom may not have opportunities to wash their hands “a lot” every day.
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Teaching quality literacy skills is just as important in French, as it is in English.
Thank you
@LailaGoodridge
, for joining me to discuss some of the great content for Alberta’s francophone and French immersion students in the new draft K-6 curriculum.
#abed
#ableg
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Hi
@JanisIrwin
! Took my nieces for ice cream in Highlands today and we sat and admired the beautiful flag in your office window. Thanks for being a great role model for the young people in my life!
#PrideMonth2020
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@cpeck3
And not just CALM! Yesterday I taught a lesson on budgeting to my grade 6s based on our 2002 Health curriculum.
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My amazing gr 6 student made this diorama of herself presenting an issue to city council! You’re all there
@AmarjeetSohiYEG
@Erinforanirniq
@AaronWardDene
Jennifer Rice,
@kerentangyeg
@AshleyASalvador
@AndrewKnack
@edmonton_anne
@michaeljanz
@_TimCartmell
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@TheoFleury14
This is a lie. Nothing was “rigged”. Not getting your way doesn’t make something “rigged”. You are spreading dangerous misinformation and causing fear and division. It’s bad.
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As teachers get sick, or even just show symptoms of what could be a cold, they will have to stay home. We need $$ to retain substitute teachers on temporary contracts so that they can be assigned to specific schools and have some kind of protection themselves if they get sick.
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So kids may be sitting with other kids, facing each other. Or the other option, if we don’t have the appropriate furniture, is put kids on the floor, as per this pic from the government’s toolkit? I mean, okay. We sit on the floor sometimes. Not all day though...
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This is kind of weird timing, but I've recently decided to become a big
@EdmontonOilers
fan and I've decided Lucic is my favourite player.
#LetsGoOilers
#yeg
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You’ve given us masks, face shields and hand sanitizer, and that’s it. I need to beg you for two more things. I worry that we will have a critical shortage of substitute teachers. I see that some boards are already asking non-teachers to do that work.
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Technology. Please be prepared for significantly reduced access to chrome books and computers.
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And we really need to see more detailed plans around contact tracing and dealing with outbreaks in schools. We need assurances that our already overloaded system will be able to handle the huge increase in testing that will be required and that results will come quickly.
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Physical activity. Please understand that your child may have little to no access to physical activity/Phys Ed during the school day.
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