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Lindsay 👩🏻‍🏫🇨🇦
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She/her. I’m a junior high ELA teacher in small town Alberta, living in Treaty 7. I’m huge fan of YA lit and Taylor Swift. Cat lover.
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Lindsay 👩🏻‍🏫🇨🇦 @walkersclass.bsky.social · Jan 31
Here is my thread to track all of my reading adventures in 2025. #BookSky #Reading #Books #LindsayLibrary
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naheednenshi.bsky.social
The story of Alberta cannot be told without the contributions of Black Albertans, past and present.

This month, and every month, we celebrate Black excellence and the future it continues to build.

Happy Black History Month, Alberta!

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Black entrepreneurship. Black creativity. Black leadership.
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi
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February 12, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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drkristopherwells.bsky.social
All schools should be sanctuaries of safety and belonging.

We grieve as a nation and extend our support, love, and compassion to everyone affected by the Tumbler Ridge tragedy.
February 11, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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heymrsbond.com
Dear Future Ones by Jacqueline Woodson is the newest poem in my teaching bag. Woodson's care and grief are a reminder that we contain multitudes and our desire for a better world includes the ground we stand on.
28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 7
Dear Future Ones by Jacqueline Woodson Dear Future Ones who do not understand an old woman puzzling over January crocuses and the delicate shoots of tulips poking through winter leaves Winter leaves us questioning the absence of snow. A headshake, a sigh, a mind turning inside the past: Twenty years on this planet and my daughter can count snowstorms lived through on a single hand. Oh Dear Future Ones, I apologize for decades of Styrofoam lunches eaten happily because the world would always be the way I knew it as a child. I apologize from tin cans thrown into trashcans. For the many years I loved helium-filled mylar balloons. I apologize for the time I bought an expensive deodorant, desired because I could spray it instead of rolling it on. I apologize for the magical thinking that led me to believe this world as I knew it would always be here and bred you into with my mind on other freedoms cuz how many dreams of freedom can a single body hold now old, you see me back bent and frowning grateful for iceless sidewalks all winter long and terrified. Oh Dear Future Ones. You do not know a world that isn't already burning, a time when flowers bloomed in seasons we understood (Because once there were seasons here in New York). Once snow barricaded me into my childhood home. Brooklyn. Blizzard of 78. We waited, my siblings and I, gleefully imagining a June thaw the four of us skeletons heartbreakingly remembered. Were history, we said. As though we already knew what was coming. As though, Future Ones, we already saw you out there reading about us and remembering snow. This the honey edited by Kwame Alexander
February 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
walkersclass.bsky.social
Sunday To Do:
- watch Olympics
- hang out and eat good food with The Brunch Bunch
- buy candy grams for school
- watch Olympics
- mark grade 7 paragraphs
- watch Super Bowl and eat ribs
February 8, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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ctffce.bsky.social
📊 New Parachute Survey Findings

Canadian classrooms aren’t just getting bigger: they’re getting more complex.

Almost 7000 educators across Canada tell us what’s really driving burnout, workload, and attrition.

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Class Size Isn’t the Whole Story: Classroom Complexity Is Driving Teachers to the Breaking Point - CTF-FCE
Third edition of the Parachute Educator Survey Series reveals why educator overwhelm is the norm and not the exception.
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February 5, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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thenarwhal.ca
What’s happened in Alberta so far this year? @drewanderson.bsky.social breaks down the announcements you may have missed.

Buckle up, it might be another one of those years. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-envi...
Alberta environment news so far in 2026 | The Narwhal
From nuclear power to hunting, here’s what the Alberta government has been up to on environment issues so far in 2026
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February 3, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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jantafrench.bsky.social
Last fall, a new vetting process took effect for sex education resources and presenters in Alberta.

Teachers and sex education experts say what has been approved is limited and has significant gaps. And they’re worried about the effects for students of watered-down sex ed #AbEd #AbLeg
Alberta vetting process limits sexual education materials for students, some experts say | CBC News
Some sexual health education experts, advocacy groups and teachers say new provincial approval requirements have left educators with inadequate options to teach Alberta’s health curriculum.
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February 1, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes. n.pr/4c3cdzs
To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog
Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.
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January 28, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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thebreakdownab.bsky.social
It’s not every day that Justices offer up a free remedial lesson in governance and law in a public open letter.

But in Danielle Smiths Alberta, where she has said she wants to control and influence the courts, it’s today.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
January 28, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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lutzfernandez.bsky.social
Newly updated today:

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January 27, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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lutzfernandez.bsky.social
I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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jantafrench.bsky.social
My colleague, Julia Wong, filed an access to info request to find out how Edmonton Public Schools came up with its first list of books to remove from shelves to comply with new provincial orders (that have since changed). The premier accused the board of "vicious compliance." #AbLeg #AbEd #yeg
New details show vigorous, pricey process to identify explicit books in Edmonton schools | CBC Accessibility
The 329 pages of records, obtained by CBC News, reveal that 11 teachers were hired by Edmonton Public Schools for a four-week summer project to review books for sexually explicit content, at a cost of...
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January 27, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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thebreakdownab.bsky.social
Looking for a tangible way to fight back against the separatists right now?

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation has stepped up to be the pointy end of the legal spear, but those battles aren’t free.

You can help them fight back for all of us!

#abpoli #cdnpoli

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Donate to Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Lawsuit & Injunction, organized by Deanna Kappo
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is a First Nation in Treaty No. 8 territory. The… Deanna Kappo needs your support for Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Lawsuit & Injunction
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January 26, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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thenarwhal.ca
The federal government said it would protect 25% of land and water by 2025. By December 2024, it had conserved 13.8% of land and fresh water and 15.5% of ocean areas, falling well short as habitat loss continues and pressure mounts to expand critical mineral production. thenarwhal.ca/canada-misse...
Canada falls short of 2025 conservation target | The Narwhal
Ottawa says it remains committed to hitting its next conservation milestone even as it races to expand critical minerals production
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January 22, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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thebreakdownab.bsky.social
With 26 days left, the “Alberta Funds Public Schools” petition is only a quarter of the way to their goal….

Here’s where you can sign.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Alberta Funds Public Schools
A Citizen Initiative petitioning the Government of Alberta to improve its Public Education funding model.
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January 15, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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thebreakdownab.bsky.social
“If conditions are dire enough that doctors are speaking bluntly to the media, we all need to listen.

Our acute care system is not well. The current situation has exceeded normal operating parameters for acute care”

The AMA has entered the chat.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
January 11, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
The grief the grief the grief.

And the rage and love.

We have it in us to be so much better than this.
The rage you are feeling comes from the same place inside your heart as the love. This is why you refuse to accept a world where cruelty reigns and the fire consumes all. You have known hope and joy and kindness like you have known water. And justice is a river that demands you do not give up on it. - Nikita Gill
January 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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caroleeena.bsky.social
Today's Poem:
The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice— though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend my life!" each voice cried. But you didn't stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do— determined to save the only life you could save.
January 1, 2026 at 9:34 PM
walkersclass.bsky.social
Thanks to @thestorygraph.com for being the place to track my reading. 50 books in 2025 and looking forward to reading again in 2026. #Books #Reading #LindsaysLibrary #BookSky
Picture of the 50 books I read in 2025. Graphic summary of the books I read in 2025.
January 1, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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jantafrench.bsky.social
Given how challenging a year 2025 was for Alberta education, I decided it should be the sole focus of the interview.

An interesting moment came when I brought up teacher workload: #AbEd #AbLeg
This is a screenshot of section of text in the article. It says: "What we hear from Alberta teachers is that they are asked to do more for that salary. It takes longer to mark papers for a class of 38 than a class of 30. And the government has added more mandatory bureaucratic tasks. How do you respond to that assertion? We could make it easier for teachers, there's no doubt about that. And maybe one of the things we have to look at, like they're doing in Ontario, is having each child graduate with trades education. Maybe we need to integrate better with community colleges with the registered apprenticeship program so that it does take a bit of a load off the academic instruction. Maybe there's a need for us to look at different ways of delivering education. I'm very interested to see that there is some artificial intelligence (AI) assisted learning that helps individualize programs for each child. And we want to make sure that the job is manageable for teachers, that they wake up every day wanting to go to school and see the kids and they're not feeling overwhelmed or frustrated or stressed."
December 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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jantafrench.bsky.social
In a year-end interview, Premier Danielle Smith says her government used the notwithstanding clause to impose a new contract onto teachers because gov't worried an arbitrator would impose pupil-teacher ratios, as teachers said they wanted

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbEd #AbLeg
Q&A: Why Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government imposed a teachers' contract | CBC News
In a year-end interview, Premier Danielle Smith talks about government decisions during the teachers' contract dispute and where she sees public education heading in Alberta.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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feistywaters.com
Your local librarian here to say that it’s great if you read lots of books this year, alright if you read barely anything, that audiobooks, romance and graphic novels are all valid formats and genres, and that some authors suck but we’re still not stopping you from reading them.
December 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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thenarwhal.ca
It’s been a frosty December in Alberta. Past winters have seen grid alerts warning of possible blackouts — so will there be enough electricity to cook the tofurkey this year? And what causes grid alerts in the first place? @drewanderson.bsky.social digs in: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-grid...
Grid alerts — threats to Alberta’s electricity system, explained | The Narwhal
Here’s what you need to know about threats to Alberta’s electricity grid
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December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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thenarwhal.ca
From our bookshelves to yours, it’s The Narwhal’s 2025 reading list. These are the books our staff read in 2025 that reflected our work — or led us to think about it in new ways. Happy reading! 📚 thenarwhal.ca/the-narwhal-...
What we’re reading: 2025 book list | The Narwhal
A look back at the books we read this year that reflected our work at The Narwhal — or changed the way we thought about it
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December 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM