Respectfully @TimHoustonNS @NSMentalHealth @nshealth @NSLAE, we have a mental health care crisis in NS. Without more paediatricians, psychiatrists & psychologists with specialized expertise in psychological conditions, events like this will continue to happen. We need to do more.
“For people to truly be healthy, modern medicine must prioritize the prevention of mental ailments alongside physical ones.”
nytimes.com/2024/09/01/opini… via @NYTOpinion
What the ?!@!
““I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate,” Trump said at the June 22 Faith and Freedom Conference.”
nytimes.com/2024/08/28/opini… via @NYTOpinion
“each time I reach out to a friend or family member, or each time I respond when someone reaches out to me, I feel more ease & less stress. The experience has taught me that parenting at its best is a team sport.”
nytimes.com/2024/08/28/opini… via @NYTOpinion
“Gus’s surge of emotion offered an image of us at our all-too-human best. Those who chose to disparage him reeked of our all-too-human worst.”
nytimes.com/2024/08/26/opini… via @NYTOpinion
“Researchers have spotted connections between vacations and lower stress, a healthier heart rate and increased creativity. And there’s some evidence that those benefits can linger for weeks.”
nytimes.com/2024/08/09/well/… via @NYTimes
“Traditional broadcast news may be waning, but more than half of the viewing population should still demand more from the industry.”
nytimes.com/2024/08/11/opini… via @NYTOpinion
What a Nova Scotian!🎉🇨🇦 cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summe…
Erica Baker, PhD retweeted
I listened to an incredible @Amplify podcast episode yesterday with Dr Catherine Snow & learned about this gem of a book that should be a must-read in every teacher training program!!
This book “addresses the identification of groups of children at risk, effective instruction for the preschool and early grades, effective approaches to dialects and bilingualism, the importance of these findings for the professional development of teachers, and gaps that remain in our understanding of how children learn to read.“
Download it for free: nap.nationalacademies.org/ca…
via @NYTimes
In Canada too ⬇️
“In the four years since the pandemic closed schools, U.S. education has struggled to recover on a number of fronts, from learning loss, to enrollment, to student behavior.” nytimes.com/interactive/2024…
Erica Baker, PhD retweeted
Good announcement from our new NS Community Services Minister Brendan Maguire to index income assistance to inflation. Next steps are to increase income assistance & supports to help lift children & families out of poverty. cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot…
Erica Baker, PhD retweeted
I do tell parents. ALL. THE. TIME. Here’s an infographic to help you spread the word, too😊
via @NYTimes
“While poverty and other factors also played a role, remote learning was a key driver of academic declines during the pandemic, research shows — a finding that held true across income levels.” nytimes.com/2024/03/18/upsho…
via @NYTOpinion
“If we want to start getting kids offline, we need to give them better places to go instead.” nytimes.com/2024/03/18/opini…
Erica Baker, PhD retweeted
My professional focus has always been on helping struggling readers. But it’s abundantly clear that students are struggling in math, too.
This is what I know:
✅students need explicit, systematic instruction in foundational math skills
✅students can’t inquire about things they don’t know
✅a structured approach to math instruction is essential for some but good for all & harms no one
✅the curriculum outlines WHAT students need to know but teachers need evidence-based resources to teach them HOW
✅we need to screen Ss and provide early, targeted interventions to prevent math achievement gaps from growing
✅too many teachers rely on TPT and non-evidence-based activities that do not align with the research (or have to make their own) because they do not have access to evidence-based math programs (especially in French!!)
I’ve turned to @WhatWorksED for literacy research and I’m turning to it again for the math research. @IESResearch #ScienceOfMath
Erica Baker, PhD retweeted
Wow! Thanks for the recommendation @TeacherKool!
I just checked out this resource now and it looks fantastic! It even contains vocabulary lists, morphology instruction and semantic maps! This resource is golden!! @LindsayKemeny @StacyHurst15
Have you heard of text project? Check out these great FREE resources. Thank you Dr. Elfreida Hiebert for making these available 🙌 Vocabulary Instruction – TextProject @StacyHurst15 @LindsayKemeny textproject.org/teachers/voc…
Erica Baker, PhD retweeted
Message from the Minister of Health, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health and Minister of Sport and Physical Activity - Brain Health Awareness Month and Brain Awareness Week: canada.ca/en/public-health/n…
Happy to live in 🇨🇦
“We have entered an era in which the incentives to serve up lies for politics or profit are so strong that libel damage awards and settlements may not meaningfully change behaviors.”via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2024/01/28/opini…
