Doni Gratton (she/hers)
@donigratton.bsky.social
Teacher Librarian, Mom, Daughter, Spouse, general happy camper 👌🏽
World's ‘oldest’ marathon runner dies at 114 in hit-and-run - BBC News
I remember learning about Fauja Singh from his book, which we put in our school library. Great message about determination, positive mindset and inclusion!
I remember learning about Fauja Singh from his book, which we put in our school library. Great message about determination, positive mindset and inclusion!
July 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
World's ‘oldest’ marathon runner dies at 114 in hit-and-run - BBC News
I remember learning about Fauja Singh from his book, which we put in our school library. Great message about determination, positive mindset and inclusion!
I remember learning about Fauja Singh from his book, which we put in our school library. Great message about determination, positive mindset and inclusion!
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“This is an Alberta Emergency Alert Update. The County of Northern Lights has issued a Wildfire Alert” www.alberta.ca/aea/cap/2025... - Government of Alberta
#ABFire #Alberta #CountyofNorthernLights #HawkHills #Wildfires
#ABFire #Alberta #CountyofNorthernLights #HawkHills #Wildfires
This is an Alberta Emergency Alert Update. The County of Northern Lights has issued a Wildfire Alert
Advisory: Wildfire - Parts of Alberta (Updated Jun 02, 2025 at 08:00 PM)
www.alberta.ca
June 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
“This is an Alberta Emergency Alert Update. The County of Northern Lights has issued a Wildfire Alert” www.alberta.ca/aea/cap/2025... - Government of Alberta
#ABFire #Alberta #CountyofNorthernLights #HawkHills #Wildfires
#ABFire #Alberta #CountyofNorthernLights #HawkHills #Wildfires
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“The service has added a second blaze in northern B.C. to its list of so-called wildfires of note, saying the Summit Lake fire has forced the closure of a stretch of Highway 97, also known as the Alaska Highway, west of Fort Nelson.” ckpgtoday.ca/2025/06/02/b... - @ckpgnews.bsky.social
#BCWildfire
#BCWildfire
Blaze forces Alaska Highway closure as B.C. wildfire season ramps up
Fire season is ramping up in British Columbia as the province's wildfire service warns of hot, dry and windy c...
ckpgtoday.ca
June 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
“The service has added a second blaze in northern B.C. to its list of so-called wildfires of note, saying the Summit Lake fire has forced the closure of a stretch of Highway 97, also known as the Alaska Highway, west of Fort Nelson.” ckpgtoday.ca/2025/06/02/b... - @ckpgnews.bsky.social
#BCWildfire
#BCWildfire
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Finished reading That Librarian by @librarianjones.com! It is a must-read for folks who are against malicious book bans and censorship by entities who are attacking our libraries & librarians. 📚
Even though it is early in the year, it will most likely be in my top 5 books of the year.
Even though it is early in the year, it will most likely be in my top 5 books of the year.
February 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Finished reading That Librarian by @librarianjones.com! It is a must-read for folks who are against malicious book bans and censorship by entities who are attacking our libraries & librarians. 📚
Even though it is early in the year, it will most likely be in my top 5 books of the year.
Even though it is early in the year, it will most likely be in my top 5 books of the year.
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Really hate that this is what we have to do, but it’s exactly what we have to do now.
The lawsuit may be the most substantive legal effort to require the Education Department to enforce civil rights since 1970, when the NAACP sued the agency for allowing segregation to continue.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social & @jodiscohen.bsky.social
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social & @jodiscohen.bsky.social
Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
The lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth…
propub.li
March 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Really hate that this is what we have to do, but it’s exactly what we have to do now.
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That’s why the role is called Teacher-Librarian!
Teacher first,
then upgraded
to Teacher-Librarian.
Doubly skilled.
Even when I appear to be only librarianing, I’m still also teaching. Everything I do is teaching…and librarianing.
What’s their superpower?
(I’d celebrate it w/out degrading it.)
Teacher first,
then upgraded
to Teacher-Librarian.
Doubly skilled.
Even when I appear to be only librarianing, I’m still also teaching. Everything I do is teaching…and librarianing.
What’s their superpower?
(I’d celebrate it w/out degrading it.)
A non-teacher adult stopped in the library between classes today -
Her: “You should be a teacher! That lesson was so interesting, and you were so engaging with the students!”
Me: “Thanks. I taught English for 24 years before this.”
...
1/
Her: “You should be a teacher! That lesson was so interesting, and you were so engaging with the students!”
Me: “Thanks. I taught English for 24 years before this.”
...
1/
jerry from tom and jerry is standing on a stage and says thank you
ALT: jerry from tom and jerry is standing on a stage and says thank you
media.tenor.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
That’s why the role is called Teacher-Librarian!
Teacher first,
then upgraded
to Teacher-Librarian.
Doubly skilled.
Even when I appear to be only librarianing, I’m still also teaching. Everything I do is teaching…and librarianing.
What’s their superpower?
(I’d celebrate it w/out degrading it.)
Teacher first,
then upgraded
to Teacher-Librarian.
Doubly skilled.
Even when I appear to be only librarianing, I’m still also teaching. Everything I do is teaching…and librarianing.
What’s their superpower?
(I’d celebrate it w/out degrading it.)
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I was so happy when this Superintendent’s Report was issued in response to rising hate movements in our community. Cdn case law was clear on the correct course for our public, secular schools.
(Though I’m aware vigilance is need lest good laws be eroded.)
(Though I’m aware vigilance is need lest good laws be eroded.)
![SUPERINTENDENT'S UPDATE TO THE BOARD
February 13, 2024, Public Board Meeting
Chilliwack
School District
...Parental views, however important, cannot override the imperative placed upon the British
Columbia public schools to mirror the diversity of the community and teach tolerance and
understanding of difference.
There is no parental right to exempt students from discussions regarding gender identity and
expression:
E. Tv. Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, 2017 ONCA 893) -
Exempting some students on a regular basis from classroom discussions touching on diversity,
inclusivity and acceptance, within a public-school program designed to promote precisely those
principles, would run a serious risk of endorsing the non-acceptance of students of other family
backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender expressions and gender identities.
⚫ ... That principle would be contradicted and undermined if, every time certain students' families
and/or identities were discussed as being healthy and acceptable, they saw some other members
of their class leave so that they would not be exposed to such statements of honour and respect.
Cognitive dissonance is part of learning:
Chamberlain v. Surrey School District No. 36, [2002] 4 S.C.R. 710-
• The argument based on cognitive dissonance essentially asserts that children should not be
exposed to information and ideas with which their parents disagree.
⚫ ... The number of different family models in the community means that some children will
inevitably come from families of which certain parents disapprove. Giving these children an
opportunity to discuss their family models may expose other children to some cognitive
dissonance. But such dissonance is neither avoidable nor noxious. Children encounter it every
day in the public school system as members of a diverse student body.
... The cognitive dissonance that results from such encounters is simply a part of living in a
diverse society. It is also a part of growing up… …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:duqvrp37fjewl6n65n3p77mb/bafkreigfcpbblglwykhis5q2bgflflx4g3n55gbsxaogrnpcqbdt3u5vha@jpeg)
March 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I was so happy when this Superintendent’s Report was issued in response to rising hate movements in our community. Cdn case law was clear on the correct course for our public, secular schools.
(Though I’m aware vigilance is need lest good laws be eroded.)
(Though I’m aware vigilance is need lest good laws be eroded.)
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WOMEN Today and every day follow/like/reply and i will follow back go.bsky.app/DGnbz2b (🚫 DM)
January 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
WOMEN Today and every day follow/like/reply and i will follow back go.bsky.app/DGnbz2b (🚫 DM)
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Last week I said I had something fun in the hopper —well — thrilled to share that I will be “guest PA announcer” tomorrow at the Canucks game at Rogers Arena for #InternationalWomensDay — honouring #WomenInSport it’s going to be so cool. 🤜🏻🤛🏻
March 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Last week I said I had something fun in the hopper —well — thrilled to share that I will be “guest PA announcer” tomorrow at the Canucks game at Rogers Arena for #InternationalWomensDay — honouring #WomenInSport it’s going to be so cool. 🤜🏻🤛🏻
@volcaholic1.bsky.social What’s the status of Cyclone Alfred? Hoping it’s not too bad on the Australian East Coast 🤞🏽💕
March 7, 2025 at 4:28 AM
@volcaholic1.bsky.social What’s the status of Cyclone Alfred? Hoping it’s not too bad on the Australian East Coast 🤞🏽💕
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A good idea for rapid advocacy on the fly when needed. Reviews, etc collated for current commonly banned books.
📚 NEW: BOOK RÉSUMÉS!
In collaboration w/publishers, librarians, & School Library Journal, #UniteAgainstBookBans is launching our FREE book résumé collection to help librarians, educators, parents, students, & other advocates keep challenged books on shelves. bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org
In collaboration w/publishers, librarians, & School Library Journal, #UniteAgainstBookBans is launching our FREE book résumé collection to help librarians, educators, parents, students, & other advocates keep challenged books on shelves. bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org
February 20, 2024 at 5:56 PM
A good idea for rapid advocacy on the fly when needed. Reviews, etc collated for current commonly banned books.
Let’s do a friendly inter district competition this year! Create practice questions or a kahoot for each other?
Life has been busy, so I got a late start on the Reading Link Competition promo. Yet, at the lunch meeting just now, we had 10 hardcore reader kids show up—ones that are very likely to actually finish all the books.
Fraser Valley RLC podcast: book intros:
soundcloud.com/fvrl/rlc-2023
Fraser Valley RLC podcast: book intros:
soundcloud.com/fvrl/rlc-2023
December 14, 2023 at 5:39 AM
Let’s do a friendly inter district competition this year! Create practice questions or a kahoot for each other?
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This is what leadership looks like. I’m very happy to be an educator in a province in which our school board amplifies these inclusive education statements.
December 13, 2023 at 10:03 PM
This is what leadership looks like. I’m very happy to be an educator in a province in which our school board amplifies these inclusive education statements.