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Mrs. Ennis ♥️ NL retweeted
May 13
Schools Were Built for a Different Era
When I was a child, most parents read with their kids daily, checked homework, talked about the school day, and reinforced learning at home. Schools worked partly because there was real parent-school collaboration.
Today, many parents still care deeply, but modern life has stretched families thin: two jobs, stress, screens, exhaustion, fractured schedules, lack of local supportive family and community. Some casually propose homeschooling, but many families struggle to maintain even the old home-school partnership.
Teachers are now being asked to carry burdens schools were never originally designed to carry alone.
We don’t need parent-versus-teacher blame. We need updated systems for modern life — ones that support families, support teachers, and rebuild collaboration around children.
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Ok, after years of encouraging a Content and Learning Coordinator approach in NL, I've decided to start selling resources on #TPTs. While I don't think teachers should be spending their own money to do their job...
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I know how helpful it is to have quality, ready-to-go resources that can be scaffolded to support diverse learners. Looking for feedback/advice from teachers @NLSchoolsCA @EDU_GovNL who has used the TPT site in the past six months. Thx! ❤️
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My daughter told me staff at her school had to cover at least four teachers today because they couldn't get subs. She's a teacher's kid so she knows the signs! NL schools frequently have shortages... And every teacher can tell you why!!! #Retention #Crickets @GovNL
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Mrs. Ennis ♥️ NL retweeted
These educators are using AI to make students think more critically. 🙌
See how teachers in Northern Italy are using Gemini for Education to create activities that challenge students to question, analyze, and engage more deeply with content.
Learn more: goo.gle/48uVBOP
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RT @NTVNewsNL: Child care safety under scrutiny after child wanders from St. John’s daycare ntv.ca/news/child-care-safet…
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I ran into two former students this week. All 'growed up' and working🤩 When you get a hug after all this time...you know you did good!
Definitely one of the things I miss about being in the classroom ❤️
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Knowing something does not mean you can teach it. The government/decision-makers are so disconnected from what's happening in the schools... it's actually painful.
Apr 25
Alberta to introduce fast track method to fill a thirst for teachers ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/a…
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Mrs. Ennis ♥️ NL retweeted
If you haven’t taught in a classroom post-Covid, you don’t know what it is like to teach the modern student.
The students have changed.
Teaching has changed.
You have to be in the classroom daily to understand what I mean.
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Mrs. Ennis ♥️ NL retweeted
How you teach is shaped by ratios.
Let me explain.
In an ideal world, every class begins with grade-level standards. You teach the content, then scaffold to support students who need it.
But that approach only works under certain conditions.
If half the class is reading at grade level and the other half isn’t, you can still make it work. You can balance rigor with support. You can push forward while pulling others along.
But if only 10% of the class is at grade level, and 90% are not, with many students three or more years behind—everything changes.
Now the teacher isn’t just scaffolding. The teacher is rebuilding.
The focus shifts toward foundations:
decoding, fluency, basic comprehension, sentence structure, writing clarity.
This is the part many people don’t understand.
It’s easy to talk about rigor, standards, and “best practices” from a distance. It’s much harder to apply them in a classroom where the majority of students are significantly behind.
Many so-called experts haven’t taught in these conditions.
Some haven’t even seen them.
And until you’ve stood in that room, trying to move students forward while rebuilding what was never solid to begin with, it’s difficult to grasp just how much those ratios matter.
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Tech is important for kids, but that doesn't have to be screen time only. Visually appealing lessons, interactive scavenger hunts/breakout rooms, hands-on STEAM activities... The use of tech should be about engagement, problem solving, communication, and community! @EDU_GovNL
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Los Angeles becomes first major school district to limit classroom screen time bbc.in/4tU7plG
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We waste million$ of dollar$ each year on textbooks & standardized resources😔
I'm REALLY hoping our new government sees the advantage of using skills & electronic resources from our own province to promote academic success! And save $$$ @DinnPaul @GovNL @EDU_GovNL #InvestInNL
You can teach nearly every high school subject effectively with a textbook and a chalkboard, and the only reason we don’t is because education companies figured out they could milk districts out of millions of dollars by convincing them otherwise.
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