Are you dreaming of summer like we are? There are so many great books on this year’s TD Summer Reading Club list of recommended reads, including We Move Together! Check out the full list at tdsummerreadingclub.ca! #TDSRC@TDSRC_CLETD
ALT Top of image shows the TD Summer Reading Club logo featuring animals, kids, and magical creatures reading and playing. Below this logo shows the book We Move Together and a description of the book stating "This book highlights the journeys of a mixed-ability group of kids as they creatively collaborate to overcome everyday barriers, participate in activism and build community. A great starting point for conversations about disability, accessibility, social justice and community building."
What a great morning with over 45 LDSB classrooms listening to Canadian authors Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire sharing their book @WMTbook. This book was gifted to all primary LDSB English Classrooms through the Limestone Learning Foundation. Thank you everyone for coming out!
This morning, we are participating in a virtual author visit with @WMTbook! We are Kindergarten accessibility experts - and advocate for Universal Design at school and in our greater community!
We had a blast talking about disability culture & accessibility and making multi-sensory art @TDSB_Rawlinson. Incredible insights these grade 2 and 3 Ss have about how we can build more welcoming communities!🌈#AccessIsLove#WeMoveTogether#NAAW2023
What do you do when National Accessibility Awareness Week overlaps with Pride? Make a rainbow of tactile hearts! Thanks to Mme B’s grade 2-3s for sharing your multi~sensory #accessible art @TDSB_Rawlinson! Yes, you can touch the art! 🤚🌈#AccessIsLove#NAAW2023#PrideTDSB
ALT Collage of photos of students making tactile art after reading the storybook We Move Together. Also pictured is the final bulletin board displaying of rainbow hearts, a colourful sign reading Access is Love, and another sign stating that this accessible art can be touched or looked at.
What do you do when National Accessibility Awareness Week overlaps with Pride? Make a rainbow of tactile hearts! Thanks to Mme B’s grade 2-3s for sharing your multi~sensory #accessible art @TDSB_Rawlinson! Yes, you can touch the art! 🤚🌈#AccessIsLove#NAAW2023#PrideTDSB
ALT Collage of photos of students making tactile art after reading the storybook We Move Together. Also pictured is the final bulletin board displaying of rainbow hearts, a colourful sign reading Access is Love, and another sign stating that this accessible art can be touched or looked at.
Join us in celebrating our #AACPSUnites featured book, We Move Together
by Kelly Fritsch. Read Aloud video featuring #AACPSAwesome students can be found at aacps.org/aacpsunites
Check out our recommended book lists and enrichment activities too.
ALT Join us in celebrating our #AACPSUnites featured book, We Move Together by Kelly Fritsch. Read Aloud video featuring #AACPSAwesome students can be found at aacps.org/aacpsunites Check out our recommended book lists and enrichment activities too.
🎊Join us on February 28th at 6pm as we celebrate the launch of the Disability Justice 101: Organizing Series. This is a space for you to learn about this new program and hear from past and present members of our Youth Action Council. 🎊
ALT ID 1: Background colours are white and organge. At the top is text that reads "Disability Justice 101: Organizing Series Launch. February 28th 6pm-7pm | via zoom. Term 1 Schedule:
Disability Justice Primer Medical Racism Meets Ableism
Policies, Legislation, Mandates, Oh My!
Abolishing Care Work." On the bottom is text that reads "use the eventbrite link in our bio to sign up or for assistance contact sahra@djno.ca". On the bottom left is a logo of our funders the Ontario Trillium Foundation and beside it is DJNO's logo. On the bottom right is an illustration of a Black femme in a wheelchair holding a megaphone.
Although I'm in a high school, my students enjoy picture books & I love that! Setting up my classroom for a new semester 📚☀️ #ReadingForPleasure
ALT An assortment of books that include novels, creative nonfiction, magazines, and children's picture books, all set on a table in a classroom.
ALT A classroom with tables and chairs. An assortment of books that include novels, creative nonfiction, magazines, and children's picture books, are displayed on tables against a wall.
ALT An assortment of books that include novels, creative nonfiction, magazines, and children's picture books, displayed on multiple tables in a classroom. A bulletin board behind it shows covers of more books.
ALT Photo 1: A table set with an electric kettle, tea, and stir sticks. Photo 2: A small table with books, flowers, and dice. Two bean bag chairs with a guitar resting on one of them.
The @BbhsCrusaders Neurodiversity Club visited @Lafayette_ES for International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The club read “We Move Together” which teaches each person is unique. The students then cut snowflakes to demonstrate all snowflakes are different - just like us!
Mark passage after passage with the Matés’ “The Myth of Normal,” or reaffirm your faith in the alchemy of language with Ann-Marie Macdonald “Fayne.”
We’ve got books for all the literary types:
thetyee.ca/Culture/2022/12/0…
It’s the perfect time to “gift” a love of reading! Check out our latest #NoraNotes blog post for a few of our favorites that will make perfect gifts for friends and family alike. #KidsLitthenoraproject.ngo/nora-note…
ALT A blue graphic has light blue snowflakes in the background. A white box has navy text that reads 'Give the Gift of Reading this Holiday Season' with the book covers of "I am Not A Label," "Can You See Me?," "The Chance to Fly," and "The New Kid Welcome."
It is with great sadness we announce that Hale Zukas has passed away. Hale Zukas was one of the founders of the Center for Independent Living. He was a Rolling Quads member and worked on the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
ALT Graphic with text that reads "IN LOVING MEMORY OF." Below is a photo of Hale Zukas at the Berkeley Library. He is wearing an assistive technology device. Below the photo is text that reads "HALE ZUKAS."
I research the history of institutionalization and its impact on disabled communities in the 1800s. We just keep backtracking. How have we not learned from histories of eugenics?
Breaking News: New York City will hospitalize more mentally ill people involuntarily, in a push to remove them from streets and subways, Mayor Eric Adams said. nyti.ms/3ATuU5v
We are incredibly honoured to receive the Harriet McBryde Johnson Award for Nonfiction from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, thank you! @autselfadvocacy@AKPressDistro#ASANGala
ALT screenshot of the ASAN gala awards ceremony streamed on YouTube showing We Move Together receiving the Harriet McBryde Johnson Award for Nonfiction
Disability, as we've come to know it, represents a radical way of being in the world, an acknowledgement of our essential interdependencies, a commitment to radical forms of care and access, and a powerful source of kinship and community.
We also found solidarity and camaraderie fighting for disability justice, organizing and attending cultural events...where we would walk, roll, limp, chant, sign, stim, and push our way through winding city streets toward a better, more accessible future.