Jumpin' Juniper

Teacher, mother, artist, bibliophile, quote addict.....

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New Miniature Warning Signs and Other Humorous and Unexpected Interventions by Michael Pederson

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I'm like Gilliam with the ring over this yarn. #futuresocks

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Repost from @drunk_austen using @RepostRegramApp - This made me happier than was perhaps warranted.

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Found inspiration. #latergram #fiatlux

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This chapter required a cookie & a Bombay Fog. #bluesage #gradschool

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Ah, we meet again, old friend. #foucault #gradschool #gutek

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I walk near this sign every day and it reminds me of my purpose. #lifelong #uleth

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Future caprese salad & the remainder of the berries (Peter Rabbit was here). #garden

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Pictorial bouquet. #garden #fleurs

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Love coming home to real mail, especially if it's from @erincondren! #teacherplanner #teachersofinstagram #teacherlife

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Music therapy 🎶 #thehip #threepistols @thehipdotcom

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Librarians must resist trumpism

Radical librarian Jason Griffey (previously) wants librarians to continue their 21st century leadership in the resistance to surveillance and persecution – a proud record that includes the most effective stands against GW Bush’s Patriot Act – by pledging to make libraries safe havens from trumpism and its evils: electronic surveillance; racial and gender-based discrimination; and the assertion that ideology trumps empirical reality.

Neutrality favors the powerful, and further marginalizes the marginalized. In the face of the current political climate, with the use of opinions as bludgeons and disinformation as the weapon of choice for manipulation and intellectual coercion, it is up to those who value fact and believe in the care of those in need to stand up and positively affirm that to do otherwise is evil.

For libraries and librarians, that means:

1. Making the physical space of the library safe for those that need it by publicly stating your stance on the targeting of marginalized communities and then following up with actions and policies that back up those statements

2. Protecting your patrons from targeting and oppression, even in the face of possible governmental pressures, by resisting calls for information about your patrons at every level

3. Making your digital spaces safe for you patrons by limiting the data you collect, eliminating the data that you store, encrypting your communications at all levels and importantly insisting that your vendors do the same

4. Running programs that actively provide support for your at-risk patrons, whatever that looks like in your community

5. By being the voice of reason and compassion when dealing with your city or county government, and by modeling the same by advocating for those at risk

These things are vital and necessary. Especially now.

https://boingboing.net/2016/12/20/librarians-must-resist-trumpis.html

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Danielle Lorenz PhD Candidate,  Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta dlorenz[at]ualberta[dot]ca

Hi there! I am looking for survey participants for my PhD research. Specifically, I am looking for Members of the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA), and would like to know more about your experiences with Aboriginal content in your Bachelor of Education degree as well as teaching Aboriginal content in your classroom. I am interested in your perspective of the inclusion of Aboriginal content in BEd programming and K-12 classrooms, as well as how curriculum and policies (for example, the Teacher Quality Standard and the School Leadership Standard) are developed. Your opinions will form some of the research data I am conducting as part of the requirements for my PhD from the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta. I would like to speak to ATA Members since the information you share with me will assist in assessing the ways the education policies can be better implemented into classroom practice.

 I am looking for ATA Members who meet one of the four following membership criteria: 

Active: teachers employed by an Alberta school board;

Associate: superintendents, faculty of education members, teachers at charter schools;

Life: retired teachers who were members of the ATA for at least 20 years; or

Student: those enrolled in full-time undergraduate Bachelor of Education programs in Alberta.

 Participation in the survey will focus on your perspectives of the ways in which Aboriginal content is taught in your classroom, and whether or not it was included in your Bachelor of Education program. Participation in the survey is completely anonymous.

I value your feedback and I hope that you will consider sharing your perspectives so that we gain a better understanding of how teachers apply policy changes to their pedagogy.  For more information on my study, and a link to the survey, please visit my Survey Participant Information Letter. 

(I would also really appreciate any reblogs I can get!!) 

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Happy Birthday girl. #luna #pugglesofinstagram #puggle #5

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Luna Lovegood: Squirrel Hunter. #summer2k15

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Post Canada Day run. Soaking wet but patriotic shoes. #ltr2015 #madhatter #summer2k15

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Managed a coherent conversation despite being a total fan girl...#swoon #kiltsaresexy #outlander #corngrinder