NEWSLETTER IN THIS ISSUE SUMMER/FALL 2020 Love in the Time of Corona The Long Return
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Call for Social Justice Newsletter Articles
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Anti-Asian Hate Crimes during the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Trish Mugford, CASJ Status of Women Action Group and Vancouver Secondary teacher
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“This is Your New Normal”
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Crossing and Creating Bridges
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Need to Recreate and Unite —Can we?
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Shut Down
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This article was written in late May 2020. Teachers had just spent two months adapting to teaching from home and were beginning to contemplate a gradual return to the classroom. This fall, as teachers transition yet again to a new form of teaching in the classroom under COVID-19 restrictions, we hope that you can apply some of the lessons learned last spring which are shared in this article.
Supporting Victims of Intimate Partner Violence during COVID-19 10 A Toast to the Allies
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
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Place, Outdoor Learning, and Aboriginal Perspectives
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Aboriginal Ways of Knowing and Being poster
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Why We Need a Sensory Audit
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BCTF Social Justice Workshops Go Digital!
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Muppets Meet at Syrian Refugee Camps
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Wonder Womyn
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Walking through a World Full of Microaggressions
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Exploring the Green New Deal: Lessons learned from COVID-19
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How Can Teachers Act in Solidarity with Teen Climate Activists? 26 First Peoples Principles of Math
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Committee for Action on Social Justice
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Love in the Time of Corona
eaching is an act of faith, hope, and love. Now may be the time to focus on love.
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nurtured our relationships from a distance. We have done all this while coping with our own grief.
In our pre-pandemic classrooms, teachers worked hard to establish safe and trusting environments for students. We knew that if we didn’t, we would lose them. Since moving to a virtual classroom, the resiliency of educators teaching under COVID-19 has been staggering. Online platforms, phone calls, motorcades, and home delivery of materials for students are some of the new ways we have reached out to our communities. We have painstakingly created learning opportunities. We have worried when we were unable to reach every student. We have
Many teachers are also struggling at home with financial issues, illness, increased violence, and racism. We are not exempt from society’s ills, yet we are expected to rise above them. In fact, we tend to expect this of ourselves. Many teachers feel inadequate within a tech-savvy world. Others work many hours longer than they did in a pre-COVID-19 world, as mornings blend into evenings and days into weeks. It may feel like we work twice as hard to get half as much done, all the while dealing with the uncertainty of the days to come.
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