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I am a collaborative family law (collaborative divorce) lawyer. I am also an education consultant & educator. Posts are not legal advice. (Pronouns: he/him)

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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
5 months
Separation is never easy, especially when there are children involved. I am proud that my services include #CollaborativeDivorce , which in the right circumstances offers a more peaceful, dignified & respectful way towards a separation agreement. Contact me for a consultation.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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Please be mindful that 2SLGBTQI+ students will see the Canada-wide anti-2SLGBTQI+ protests this week as a sign that their society is increasingly intolerant about who they are. Show openly (this week especially!) that your school/classroom is a safe & welcoming place for them.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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I confirm that I've left the TCDSB. The TCDSB (Canada's largest Catholic board) is not safe for teachers who intently & openly teach inclusively for 2SLGBTQI+ students & is not a safe place for 2SLGBTQI+ students & staff bc of its deep systemic homophobia & transphobia. - Paolo
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
4 years
We had a special guest today in The Rainbow Room!
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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An “opinion” story by True North has false information. Here are some examples: 1. I did not get the boot. I was not removed or am not removed from my classroom or school. 2. I was not asked or was not forced to take down anything from my classroom or school. 1/2
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
5 years
Wow. Welcoming us, inspiring us to have hope & work hard to achieve our dreams, & letting us ask questions were a part of MPP Lecce’s first act as Minister of Education. What a lucky day to tour Queen’s Park. @tcdsb @LubinskiTeresa @TCDSB_JWujek @stjamesTCDSB
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Stephen Lecce
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In my first act as Minister of Education, I surprised these students from St. James Catholic School on a tour at Queen’s Park. I reminded them that with hard work, they can achieve their dreams. Thanks for the warm welcome! #ONpoli
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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Courage is the virtue of the month in @TCDSB schools. In honour of the courage of students/graduates of @HCDSB , the background image today in The Rainbow Room will be the 1 used by Nic Hotchkiss in the @flytheprideflag account they run, & I'm wearing my "It's OK to be gay!" tie.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
1 year
The TCDSB is more unsafe, now, for me to start, lead or participate in an elem. school GSA. I'm sad to announce that for this school year I will not be asking to do so.😢 @TCDSB_Trustee12 @Markus4Ward2 @idalipreti @LubinskiTeresa @mariarizzo @GTanuan @DDiGiorgio_ @KennedyTCDSB
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
2 years
2 days ago, I tweeted a “Trans Women are Women” message. Last night I saw that it had 24 quoted retweets. Optimistic about this, I opened each one to see regrettably that they were all negative retweets, many overtly transphobic. We’ve a lot of work to do in Catholic education.
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Joe Rogers
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Today is #InternationalWomensDay - As women’s rights (especially trans women) are under attack all over the world, we need strong clear voices that empower
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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Today I resolve that I will display a 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ or Pride Progress flag (at least 1 on each day of the school year) in a prominent place in my Catholic classroom, The Rainbow Room, such as at the prayer table, so that my 2SLGBTQI+ students know that they are safe & celebrated. 1/2
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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I got it! This week to celebrate #InternationalWomensDay , during #TheRainbowAngels meeting, we will highlight @FaeJohnstone & why she was chosen by @Hersheys for its Her for She campaign. The Rainbow Angels is a GSA led by Paolo De Buono meeting in a @TCDSB elementary school.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
2 years
Thanks to @tsuOECTA for hosting the @TCDSB participants in the @PrideToronto Parade today. Happy #Pride @Equity_TCDSB #TCDSBPrideMonth
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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I'm announcing the upcoming #PrideInTheTCDSB website, which will be a website (created on my own time) for Catholic educators (with input from educators) to promote the celebration of Pride Month in Catholic school boards in Ontario. The website will be launched on June 1, 2022.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
3 years
Just as the live stream of the @TCDSB 's 1st Pride Month Celebration was closing this historic day, I got this message from a student in The Rainbow Room: "I love tcdsb" @Equity_TCDSB @TCDSBdirector @dktcdsb @TCDSB_StAnne @PrincipalJRusso @FigueiredoOdile @aperrottatweets
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
2 years
The Rainbow Room invites all @TCDSB schools & classrooms not to participate this school year in #BellLetsTalk . There are better ways to promote mental health awareness than a way that promotes a company that would do what it did to Lisa LaFlamme.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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3. I have been in & seen in my school & classroom since April 25. 4. Any absences since April 25 are health-related, not a consequence of or to my attendance at that April 25 YCDSB Catholic board meeting where I was confronted by anti-Pride York Catholic community members. 2/2
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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A Grade 1 student in The Rainbow Room created a church using Minecraft Education Edition during lunch (from a challenge this morning when we discussed the upcoming TCDSB Advent Mass on Dec. 16 at 10 am).
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
2 years
Drag queen story hour is harmless. Hate isn’t harmless. That is why I will promote drag queen story hour in my Catholic elementary classroom this school year as I have before.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
1 year
Yesterday evening I marched in the #PrideToronto #TransMarch proudly as a @TCDSB teacher displaying the TCDSB bag I received once for all the volunteer time I put into creating & hosting 21C workshops. I do not & will never teach my TCDSB students that there are only 2 genders.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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I must be transparent with my colleagues at the Toronto Catholic District School Board, as much as I encourage them to be open, not secret, not afraid, about being 2SLGBTQI+ inclusive: It’s not a safe school board for teachers who are open about being 2SLGBTQI+ inclusive.
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This is a huge loss for the @TCDSB I can only hope Paolo inspired enough people to take up his work and continue to push forward.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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It's International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia in The Rainbow Room today. I wore my special rainbow suspenders. #IDAHOBIT @Equity_TCDSB
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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With all the anti-2SLGBTQI+ hate that has been displayed in Ontario, my Gr. 8 students in The Rainbow Room will be told in Week 1 (when we talk about a classroom of no racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.), that are not permitted to say that there are only 2 genders. 1/2
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
4 years
This (a surprise gift from a student who's last virtual learning day is today) is the "official class photo" of The Rainbow Room. On Monday we will welcome new students to our virtual Grade 1 Catholic classroom where we celebrate the wonders of learning & inclusion.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
4 years
Yesterday we had a special visitor (during Vocal Music) to The Rainbow Room: Mr. Paolo's daughter, Sarah. Sarah led The Rainbow Room in singing Tomorrow (from the musical Annie).
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
3 years
It was only 2 years ago this week that I posted this message on a hallway outside my Gr. 5-6 classroom, for any K-8 student to see, when our board culture effectively prohibited the discussion of 2SLGBTQ+ issues in elementary schools outside of classroom Family Life Ed.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
2 years
@nakedpastor Your last comment is so insightful: “You assume you're in, you're out; you assume they're out, they're in.” That is so close to what I believe Jesus meant (in terms of social action) by his Luke 948 comment: “The one who is least among all of you is the one who is the greatest.”
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
1 year
I’m very transparent about the few Catholic teachings I won’t teach for human rights reasons. This ⬇️ is from an email I sent today to all area school SOs & the director. @TCDSB_Trustee12 @Markus4Ward2 @idalipreti @LubinskiTeresa @mariarizzo @GTanuan @DDiGiorgio_ @KennedyTCDSB
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
3 years
We did it! We published our Black History Month website. Name: Black Lives Matter in The Rainbow Room Reason: We hope you, like us, will learn about & celebrate Black history in February & all year long. Audience: Primary TCDSB grades.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
4 years
This Monday will be Martin Luther King Jr. Day in The Rainbow Room! Join us in your own online classrooms in reading, writing & other activities inspired by MLK Jr. & focused on making our community a better place today. January is the month of courage in the @TCDSB .
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
4 years
The Rainbow Room is ready for @MaestroFreshWes ' visit today. #StickToYourVision
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
1 year
Today marks 2 years since my Mom’s death. I was proud to be there to help during the last few years to help her & proud to be there day & night for the last few weeks in the hospital, to give her the love that she deserved. She was proud of me for choosing to be a teacher.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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Hi Trustee @Markus4Ward2 : I’m not trying to change TCDSB policies or practices by this video. I am just responding to your information they suggests we’d benefit from a delay in DEI training for teachers, when teachers like me have been hurt by the delay. That is, … 1/2
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
4 years
The Rainbow Room, a @TCDSB Gr. 1 @TCDSB_StAnne classroom, recognized #PinkShirtDay , using the opportunity to talk in age-appropriate ways about standing up to homophobic bullying. Read the students' messages. @FigueiredoOdile @PrincipalJRusso @TCDSB21C @dktcdsb @TCDSBdirector
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
4 years
Today (in the Rainbow Room’s first online class experience together) we celebrated the first full day of Fall “outdoors.” #AllAreWelcome @TCDSB_StAnne @TCDSB21C @TCDSBdirector
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
6 years
“The worst part of depression is that people who don’t have it just don’t get it.” #BelllLetsTalk #TCDSBStopTheStigma @stjamesTCDSB
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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This evening I received a @PFLAGDurham CHAMPION Against Homophobia & Transphobia award! I am so honoured to be called an ally. Being an ally is at the ♥️ of what I teach my students to be as Catholics. @TCDSBDirector @Equity_TCDSB @NormTcdsb @TrusteeWard2 @IdaPreti @mariarizzo
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
1 year
What are you up to this summer? I’m spending a lot of quality time with my Dad. This is us shopping minutes ago at his favourite supermarket, Fortino’s.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
4 years
There’s no doubt after today’s visit to The Rainbow Room from our Vice Principal that a principal or vice principal, including in a virtual school, is a community helper who cares about students & loves to read. We ended by singing Feliz Navidad together.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
3 years
A special thanks to Trustee @Markus4Ward2 for visiting The Rainbow Room for our special Heritages Celebration today. He's great with students! In sharing his family's story & by answering students' Qs & engaging them, he helped them appreciate even more their own special stories.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
2 years
The learning resources from @tvo are so amazingly helpful & user-friendly. I integrate #TVOLearn links (for example) within my Math units (with reminders to consider using #TVOMathify ) for my Gr. 7-8 students as additional resources for learning. Thanks TVO!
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
2 years
If you’re a TCDSB teacher, you’ll notice there’s so little centrally/internally to help us teach inclusively for 2SLGBTQ+ students. I invite you to follow Ottawa Catholic educators like @mrjdaher to consider what can happen at your TCDSB school/classroom in this area.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
4 years
Vice Principal Odile Figueiredo will be Zooming into The Rainbow Room later this morning as a part of our Grade 1 Community Helpers unit in Social Studies. These are questions students prepared, collected on our Jamboard.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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Dear @mduarte_HCDSB : The correspondence you're receiving from @CampaignLife , making it seem like its a choice between Jesus or the Pride flag, is instructive of the negative perception 2SLGBTQ+ students experience. Flying the Pride flag is the right choice for the @HCDSB .
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
2 years
My Religion Table has a cross, a Bible, a @nakedpastor image of Jesus, an image of Baby Jesus with Mary (from a protest in Poland), flowers students made for it, & my Champions Award for allyship from @PFLAGDurham , just in time for the 1st-ever GSA meeting in a new elem. school.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
3 years
TCDSB School Administrators: ⬇️
@ESL_fairy
Kimiko Shibata eslfairy.bsky.social
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Dear school administrators: I see you. I feel your stress. I’m sorry that you’ve been placed in this situation, and that the pressure has not let up for the past two years. You deserve the same love and care that you give to your staff and students.
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Breaking News: Santa Claus visited The Rainbow Room this morning. The Rainbow Room is a virtual Grade 1 classroom in the @TCDSB 's @TCDSB_StAnne . Santa joined us from an Area 3 & Ward 3 school to access an authorized TCDSB Zoom account. More details to follow!
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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We celebrated #SpiritDay today in The Rainbow Room, like they did in many school boards in Ontario, wearing purple & discussing bullying & standing with 2SLGBTQ+ youth, who disproportionately face harassment because of their identities.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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A special 🙏 to Trustees @Markus4Ward2 & @normsworld for joining The Rainbow Room today for the 1st part of our Pride Celebration/Parade, which included a beautiful song by Trustee Markus & some local Pride history from Trustee Norm, as students waved their Pride flags. 1/3
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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The Rainbow Room will be a Gr. 8 class next school year. Like this school year, Fully Alive will not be taught/used at all. Re sexual orientation, students will not be taught that same-sex love is a sin, & re gender identity will not be taught that there are only 2 genders.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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Search/post #ChristmasInTheTCDSB for many examples of TCDSB elementary teachers are making this season a fun & meaningful experience for students in their classrooms. To those who falsely say that TCDSB elementary teachers aren't celebrating Christmas this year: Bah Humbug! 1/n
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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On the last day of school, students referred to Minecraft as Kindcraft & were saying that love is the most important thing to be. That's the kind of year it's been this year in The Rainbow Room. I'm so proud of my students! 🙏 for support from @TCDSB admin & resource persons.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
1 year
I want to #BeKind like my Dad. He’s been a widower for 2 years. In the many times we eat together & he forgets that I ate too, he asks again to share his food w/ me. When he makes espresso & forgets he asked if I wanted a cup, he asks again. I ❤️ him! #CelebrateDad @AFLToronto
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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@rollforlearning @TCDSB_Trustee12 @Markus4Ward2 @idalipreti @LubinskiTeresa @mariarizzo @GTanuan @DDiGiorgio_ @KennedyTCDSB Not lightly at all. Every time I did it, I accepted I would be treated unfairly. But now the level of the harassment from within is too great & the impact from the fact there’s been no board-wide training & resources in 2SLGBTQI+ inclusion for teachers is too great.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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A student wrote this on a card for me today: “You are very brave.” Me: Thank you. Why would you say that? Student: You stand up for the LGBTQ community. @TCDSB_Peterson @Equity_TCDSB
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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“I love the Rainbow Room.” Online community building as a classroom & as a school is real, not virtual, shown through this spontaneous display by a student minutes after spontaneously asking, “Mr. Paolo, how do you spell rainbow?”
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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I encourage TCDSB teachers to openly teach inclusively for 2SLGBTQI+ students. It’s the right thing to do. Yet I share my experience that the TCDSB isn’t safe for teachers to do so. You do so at great risk to yourself. Senior management doesn’t get it & likely won’t support you.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
1 year
I confirm that I've left the TCDSB. The TCDSB (Canada's largest Catholic board) is not safe for teachers who intently & openly teach inclusively for 2SLGBTQI+ students & is not a safe place for 2SLGBTQI+ students & staff bc of its deep systemic homophobia & transphobia. - Paolo
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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Thank you to MPP @Sflecce for welcoming our class today at Queen’s Park. We’re honoured to be the first class he’s welcomed as the new Minister of Education. Thank you for your inspiring words about what we can achieve. @stjamesTCDSB @TCDSB_JWujek @LubinskiTeresa @TCDSB
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
3 years
Today in The Rainbow Room, we read each page, each letter from A-Z, from @InnosantoNagara 's book, A Is for Activist. The Gr. 1 students (via Jamboard) wrote their own letter & word, & then they moved on to drawing their page for our book. #GeorgeFloyd #BlackLivesMatter
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
3 years
The Power of Online Learning: At a school during recess where I’m helping out for a few days until my new online class launches this Monday, a Gr 2 student from The Rainbow Room (Gr 1) last year gave me these flowers & said to me: “You’ll always be the best teacher I ever had.”
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
4 years
A special thanks to the @TCDSB_StAnne leadership team for the @PearsonMatholo1 training led by @AnnelyseDeMarco @BartVanslack & @rosemortillaro . And a special thanks to the @TCDSB leadership for choosing Mathology as an online resource for our learning community.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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Dear @TCDSB Colleagues: We don’t know Jesus’ skin colour. Jesus could have been Black. What lesson are we teaching our students if overwhelmingly the Jesus we are displaying in our school offices or religion walls/tables is a white Jesus? #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLivesMatter
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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I got this encouraging message yesterday from a TCDSB elementary teacher. My efforts to encourage TCDSB teachers not to teach Fully Alive at all are bearing fruit. @TCDSB_Trustee12 @Markus4Ward2 @idalipreti @LubinskiTeresa @mariarizzo @gtanuan @DDiGiorgio_ @KennedyTCDSB
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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Following a reading of When I Was Eight & a discussion of residential schools in Canada, & in conjunction with learning about adjectives, students in The Rainbow Room described how schools or classrooms should be for them & for all children.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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#ExemplaryTCDSB Principal @Rocco42893024 reads Something From Nothing (by Phoebe Gilman) to Kindergarten students at St. Jerome Catholic School as if they're family, because they are. #FamilyLiteracyDay @stjeromestcdsb @AdrianAvi7 @campbes03 @mariarizzo
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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Inspired by @GretaThunberg , Grade 3 students in The Rainbow Room will be participating (online) today with other children around the world to bring attention to the urgency that we must "Stop Climate Change & Save the Earth!" @MariaVamvalis #ClimateStrike
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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Where are our stickers? @TECT951 @tsuOECTA
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Today I told my TCDSB school superintendent that bc of the PTSD-like symptoms I experience from bullying & silence from TCDSB staff, 1) I cannot attend school Masses led by Archdiocese of Toronto priests & 2) I cannot host Archdiocese volunteers such as Rosary volunteers. 1/2
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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Dear @CanadianPM @JustinTrudeau : Students in The Rainbow Room (a Gr. 3 @TCDSB online classroom) are asking you to make #MartinLutherKingDay Day a holiday in Canada too. These are some of their reasons. Mr. Paolo @TCDSB_StAnne @Equity_TCDSB @keithbaybayon @StephanieDCstro
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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Compassion is the Virtue of the Month in May in the @TCDSB . Our compassion-related theme song for May in The Rainbow Room is You've Got a Friend in Me.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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We’re in a virtual learning session with Brian Aspinall (author of Code Breaker & Block Breaker) about coding & other topics that interest us.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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Today, a student not in my class, outside my window with their class, told me proudly through the window for other students to hear, “Mr. Paolo, I am gay,” & I responded, “That’s great! Congratulations! Thank you for telling me!” Inclusion matters in a Catholic school!
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
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The Rainbow Room engaged in its 1st class-wide Zorbit’s Math Adventure activity today. Unsurprisingly, students kept asking, “May I share my screen, Mr. Paolo,” & did. 🙏 to the teacher-leaders like Ms. Anne, Ms. Brenda, & Mr. Bart at the TCDSB who supported the Zorbit’s launch.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
3 years
Please support June formally as the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Even if you do not, we are already planning to celebrate it in The Rainbow Room this year, because it's a good thing, like some classrooms and schools did last year. @kkathynnguyen @keithbaybayon
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
2 years
We can splash the word equity all over the place in the TCDSB. Talking about it is better than not, which is an improvement for us. But let’s have the confidence of SCDSB & other #OntEd boards that equity is truly central in strategic planning & that we’re “walking the talk.”
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SCDSB DEI/ML Department
2 years
So proud of all of the ⁦ @SCDSB_Schools ⁩ DEI/MLL coaches who created an incredible resource for our schools on Celebrating Black Excellence in our schools. Equity is a Strategic Priority in our board and we are walking the talk! #BHMSCDSB
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
3 years
The @CanPaedSociety says, regarding gender identity, that "children do best when their parents or caregivers [educators too] show them that they are loved & accepted for who they are." This is a helpful article for @TCDSB families & educators. 🙏 CPS!
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
3 years
Here’s the #ThankfulTCDSB Challenge: Tag at least 7 TCDSB educators for whom you’re thankful for educating with in the TCDSB. @kara_dymond @stepanpruch @ColleenMuzzatti @MsVittiD @KatieKatieo @MissFajardoC @borba_mr Gratitude is October’s Virtue of the Month.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
6 years
These Google Doodles from Ms. Tavares’ Grade 7-8 class are really creative. ⁦ @stjamesTCDSB ⁩ ⁦ @TCDSB ⁩ ⁦ @TCDSB_STEAM ⁩ ⁦ @barbarapoplaws5
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
2 years
Families at my school will see the wonderful news in the December newsletter that their school has a new GSA called #TheRainbowAngels . (I worded the purpose of the GSA directly from the Education Act.)
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
4 years
It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day today in The Rainbow Room. Today's writing prompt: "I have a dream ..." Students are writing their dream sentences on a shared Jamboard. We were so into this activity that we all missed the start of morning recess as we kept on writing & talking.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
4 years
Hope is the theme for the month of December in all Toronto Catholic DSB schools. These are messages of hope from students in The Rainbow Room shared, transcribed to Jamboard. The Rainbow Room is a Grade 1 classroom in St. Anne Catholic Academy, School of Virtual Learning.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
3 years
We in The Rainbow Room are so excited about our (virtual) trip today to Reptilia! Thank you Ms. Brenda for leading us & guiding us there! It's Earth Week in the @TCDSB !
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
1 year
Thank you to Ottawa Catholic teachers in being an example for Toronto Catholic teachers to follow in being 2SLGBTQI+ inclusive educators. I hope you have a GREAT day! @oectaottawa @TECT951 @tsuOECTA
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Joe Rogers
1 year
Preparing with @oectaottawa - it’s going to be a GREAT day
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
2 years
Last week the TCDSB heard a staff report on the Right to Read. Early intervention is a human right. The TCDSB has a special early intervention program (5th Block) that is so effective. I thank God for the #TCDSB5thBlock teachers & program. May it be expanded in our schools.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
4 years
Today the Rainbow Room read Hats of Faith, acknowledging our special Catholic beliefs while noting & respecting religious diversity in Toronto as seen through hats of faith. We gave extra attention to the fact that many of our Muslim family, friends & neighbours wear a hijab.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
2 years
It’s report card time! Today I confirmed with Ss the name & pronouns to use 4 them. Sometimes the pronoun they told me to use in class (eg. they/them) is not the pronoun they asked to use with their family (eg. she/her). I respect Ss’ rights. @TCDSBdirector @TCDSB21C
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
1 year
This morning I attended Mass at @StPatsHamilton . The land acknowledgment was a special start. Father Tony encouraged listeners to walk the walk, that walking the walk is much more important than talking the talk. Amen.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
4 years
"How can I show my love for Jesus?" is the Q prompt on p. 125 in the Grade 1 @GIFGIC textbook. Using a Holy Week image we created via @PlayCraftLearn , these are the students' responses in The Rainbow Room. I am so proud that students equate love for Jesus as being anti-racist.
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Paolo De Buono, Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
4 years
Focusing on counting by 5s & 10s to 40 (40 because it's Lent), 1 breakout group in The Rainbow Room today demonstrated their learning via #MinecraftEducationEdition . A student counts by 5s (she uses 8 columns of 5 blocks) & another by 10s, all-the-while explaining to each other.
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