Patt Olivieri

Orang fabric covering the whole space.

Listening. Learning.

“I believe that if you are a reader, then you are by my own definition free, because no one can imprison your mind.” ~ Levar Burton

@levarburton.bsky.social
#OntEd
#FreedomToRead
#BookLove
#BeFree

Increasingly, what makes sense to me is framing a class as a *dialogic community* and assessing students on their contributions as members of that community. Such contributions can be and should be as spontaneous as they are regulated. +

Will spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.

A growth-focused icebreaker Two questions that can accomplish much in an alt-graded class

As a fellow ‘icebreaker hater’ this piece by @roberttalbert.bsky.social is worth a read…

#GradingForGrowth #ungrading #assessment

gradingforgrowth.com/p/a-growth-f...

The problem with "work life balance" is it assumes there are two discrete parts to a person: The work part, and the life part, and these must be kept in "balance". But the things that make a person human are uncountable and cannot be separated. There are no "parts".

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A 7th grader of my acquaintance described the standard pedagogy of his teachers as follows: “Here are a bunch of facts. Tell them back to me next week and you’ll get a good grade.”

Stage with black backdrop. Speaker at mic. Audience members standing. Project boards in foreground.

Closeup of project board. Black and white. Word ‘question’ at the top. “How did the rise of the newspaper industry change people’s opinion?” underneath. “How does media change opinions?” underneath that.

Heritage Fair in Ottawa is underway…
Timing. ❤️ 🇨🇦

I have faith in students.

#ThinkCritically #CriticalQuestions

Chart tracks suicide rates by month and day for ages 8-17, 2000-2020

If the cause of youth anxiety is phones, why does suicide risk increase dramatically for young people during the school year and not during the summer (like it does for adults) when ostensibly kids would have more unsupervised access to screens?

www.scientificamerican.com/article/chil...

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

Canadian brewery selling pack of 1,461 beers to cope with Trump's presidency | CBC News A Canadian brewer hopes a massive crate of beer will help customers deal with the exhausting news cycle under U.S. President Donald Trump. Moosehead's Presidential Pack contains 1,461 beers, in 473-mi...

“Moosehead's Presidential Pack includes 1 can a day for the next 4 years” 😂

Brilliant!

#ShopCanadian 😉 🍻
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Nonna Rosina 🥀
My mom
My big sister
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My grandmother (the OG badass woman in my family) would have been 100 years old today. Cheers to all the badass women who keep fighting the good fight!

#IWD

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Jasmine Crockett

Badass women! ❤️

Congratulations!!!

Welcome to Freedom to Read - Freedom to Read Freedom of expression is a fundamental right of all Canadians, and freedom to read is part of that precious heritage.

The #FreedomToRead

#OntEd
#BookLove 📚❤️

www.freedomtoread.ca

EXCELLENT read! 🙏🏼

Sidney Crosby wearing team Canada four nations jersey and helmet.

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Big hugs ❤️🤍

Imagine where we'd be today if we invested more in Human Intelligence

I’m not kidding: those who delegate all their writing, thinking and creative expression to machines are going to wake up one day and discover that they can no longer write or think. You need to make your own art. You need to keep your brain working. You need to stay human.

HomeWork-School: Deconstructing Assessment, Fairness and Future Learning in Ontario K-12 Spaces | Emerging Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Graduate Research in Education and Psychology

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#assessment #UNgrading #gradeless #PedDoc #OntEd

Book cover with title Schoolishness in white letters. Subtitle in yellow letters, Alienated Education And The Quest For Authentic, Joyful Learning. Author’s name in reddish-brown letters Susan D. Blum along the bottom. Grey background of four school lockers numbered twenty one to twenty four. Third locker covered in multicoloured flowers. White woman’s left hand on left side pointing to book cover.

It’s here!!!
#WeekendRead
🙏🏼 @susandblum.bsky.social

Toward a Co-intentional Approach to Assessment For ungrading to be equitable, we can’t merely ask students to grade themselves, but must work together with students to interrogate and dismantle grades as a system.

If your students are struggling, stop asking what might be wrong with or different about them. Start by asking what barricades the system has erected. How is structural stuff getting in the way? Knock down those barricades before putting blame on students... or yourself.