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Kimiko Shibata 🇨🇦 🦄 Profile picture
@ESL_fairy
Apr 22 • 9 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Here's a small part of my love letter to Educational Assistants and Child and Youth Workers... nothing I can ever write or say will be enough to thank you for the work that you do for our kids. Please take note, @Sflecce.
#OntEd
@wrdsbeaa
EAs and CYWs have been the safe, caring adult that students needed, time and time again. From helping an overwhelmed little newcomer whose mother had flown back to their country of origin for work, helping her breathe and knead thinking putty instead of self-harming...
...to jumping in to coordinate community supports for a newcomer family who had a fire in their apartment and injuries from jumping out their window to escape and had literally lost everything except for the clothes on their backs...
...to somehow finding the time to feed kids breakfast and sneak food into their knapsacks, to patiently reviewing learning with a child in different ways until all of a sudden it FINALLY CLICKED AND THEY COULD READ!!!...
...to being the safe adult that children opened up to about the horrible things they had seen and experienced in the war and in the refugee camps, to seeing beyond the behaviour to the needs behind it...
...to being the loving and familiar part of a struggling child's day, to finding visuals, social stories, and other resources to support learners with diverse needs, to being the consistency and calm in the storm and a soft landing space in the overwhelm of busy classrooms...
...EAs and CYWs are some of the most important staff members in our schools. Our school system would quite literally collapse without the life-changing work that you do every single day. You are the key to unlocking education for so many vulnerable students...
...I know that times are tough right now, I know you’re stretched so very thin, and your job is getting harder every day. Please never forget that you deserve that same love, compassion, and grace that you extend to the students you serve...
...You deserve all of our respect and decent pay and working conditions… I’m so thankful that you’re still here, showing up for our kids and making a difference each and every day. You are loved and you are appreciated... and I'm so very glad that you're part of our team.

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Kimiko Shibata 🇨🇦 🦄 Profile picture
Apr 20
Great learning with the #WRDSBMLL Elementary Teachers today, on supporting multilingual language learners in Kindergarten and assessing writing. slide showing "introdu...
We made connections between the components of Scarborough's Reading Rope and the Top Ten Tools Writing Systems/Strands. #WRDSBMLL Slide showing comparison be...
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Feb 20
I have heard a few educators say that learning about morphology should be reserved for students in the upper grades, and that the concept of breaking words down into parts is too high-level for young children.
I heartily disagree. Learning about the parts of words can start informally in authentic contexts, and can lead to a lifetime of word inquiry. It is never too early to engage curious little minds with the basics of morphology.
When our daughter was a preschooler, we often played with words in our songs, rhymes, and games. She had many questions about words as her vocabulary developed. She knew that the word "cats" had two parts (morphemes): cat + s = cats from meaningful everyday contexts.
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Kimiko Shibata 🇨🇦 🦄 Profile picture
Nov 12, 2022
“I’d recognize that smile anywhere!” -a secretary I haven’t seen in 7 years.

I was wearing a mask. But she still recognized my smile. Because ppl can actually still understand that someone in a mask is smiling by looking at their eyes and body language and hearing their voice.
My daughter knows when her masked teachers are smiling at her (thank you to her teacher for wearing a mask after returning to school after being off with COVID). Kids are generally pretty awesome at adapting to masks. I think we need to give children and adults more credit.
If the rising pediatric hospitalization rates have you considering sending your child to daycare or school in a mask to protect them and their classmates/educators, here’s a resource with videos and social stories that may help: docs.google.com/presentation/d…
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Kimiko Shibata 🇨🇦 🦄 Profile picture
Nov 9, 2022
Discussion point from our MLL literacy networking: is focusing on exposing children to lower-case letters first better than focusing on upper-case letters first, since the majority of letters kids will be exposed to in print will be lower-case? #WRDSBMLL
We may wish to take a step back from a focus on letter names as students first encounter letters and make sure we teach the SOUNDS the letters make. Alphabet-sound linking charts with visuals to support the letter-sound connection can be useful for MLLs and ALL kids. #WRDSBMLL
As teachers, we often point out the words that "break the rules" (spelling conventions), but perhaps we could set our students up for success by emphasizing the spelling conventions that are NOT rule-breakers, to help them both read and spell more efficiently. #WRDSBMLL
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Nov 5, 2022
I’m here to tell you that it is not impossible to avoid household spread, even in an older house with sub-par ventilation and only one bathroom.

I repeat: Household spread of COVID-19 is NOT inevitable.

Don’t give up. Use all the tools available to you. Every layer helps. Two negative COVID rapid te...
Layer 1: Breathe Elastomeric respirator and N95s in the house.

Layer 2: open windows, even when it’s freezing.

Layer 3: Corsi-Rosenthal box in sick guy’s room, HEPA filters in bathroom, bedrooms, and living room. All running at max.

Layer 4: Bathroom exhaust fan on 24/7.
Layer 5: MERV-13 filters in furnace (forced air). Furnace fan on non-stop.

Layer 6: Bathroom vent blocked on both sides to stop aerosols from unmasked showering from entering bedroom that shares the same vent. HEPA in bedroom by vent just in case.
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Sep 30, 2021
I am absolutely heartbroken. I have been a #StaySafeAmbassador since the summer. I’ve helped so many others to access free rapid antigen tests, including parents of my kid’s classmates, family and friends, folks in my community, and local business owners. 1/14
I’m a huge advocate for asymptomatic rapid antigen testing to keep our community safer, and our schools and economy OPEN, and today I felt like I was punched in the gut. 2/14
While I value the work that @Communitech does in our community, Matthew Bondy’s messaging on their behalf this a.m. was extremely disappointing and frankly lacked integrity. It felt like volunteers and ambassadors were completely gaslit and thrown under the bus. 3/14
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