Christine Abbot

Citation for the graphic: Tan, A. (2021). Power & Privilege in Canada. lddi.educ.ubc.ca/equity-diver...

Circle chart graphic describing the dimensions of power and privilege. Citation: Tan, A. (2021). Power & Privilege in Canada. https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/equity-diversity-inclusion/

For February, we explored the system we learn & teach in. We reflected on the worldviews & values in our education system from multiple perspectives. Where do privilege & power shape the system? How might we be able to unlearn practices from our own experiences & reimagine possibilities?

How Self-Compassion Can Help School Leaders Stay Grounded Self-compassion helps leaders regulate stress, stay present in hard moments, and model emotional steadiness for their communities.

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First day of a new course and I shared one of my favourite picture books by Danielle Daniel to begin to explore our identity and our stories. We are situating ourselves and developing our learning community. #teachereducation #ufv_soe #schoolofeducation #ufv_fechd #newsemester

I couldn't remember my #OneWord for 2025, but decided to find it, reflect on it, and set a new intention for 2026. learningandunlearning.edublogs.org/2026/01/05/o...

One of yesterdays’ challenges was to see how many letters we could find on our walk! I think we did pretty well! #teachercandidates #teachereducation #outdoored #outdooreducation #getoutside #outdoorlearning

Yesterday’s classroom #teachercandidates #teachereducation #outdoored #outdooreducation #getoutside #outdoorlearning

I was in 3 schools yesterday and these #multilingual and #inclusive signs caught my eye!

Thank you to @cldleadership.bsky.social for holding space today for sharing, learning and listening! I was honored to share some of the stories and our learning from a current research project that weaves together 3 themes that I value and believe are essential in our educational systems.

This week we are reading Jo Chrona’s “Where do we begin? Setting up spaces in a good way" from #wayiwah & Jamilah Pitts’ “Introduction" from #TowardLiberation

I acknowledge the use of ChatGPT to create this image. I entered the following prompt: "Create an image of gathering threads for weaving."

Thread 1 Who We Are Matters—Situating Ourselves: developing our #identity as a new #learningcommunity and #reflecting on who we have been as #learners & what it means to be a learner and #teacher

I've changed my approach to planning for the course by gathering learning experiences and resources into 4 threads that we are going to weave together over the semester as we co-construct knowledge and new understanding.

After teaching an Intro to #EdPsych class 15 times, I'm getting ready to teach a new course on teaching & learning practices tomorrow evening.

A #designchallenge with some intermediate students today! Can you create a name tag that is also a pencil holder? Your only supplies - 1 pcs of card stock, 1 pipe cleaner, & some masking tape. #backtoschool #creativethinking

Yes, they seemed to learn more words and some continued to favour this strategy. Other opted to use other strategies.

And that's a wrap on #summerlearning and here are their summer book recommendations... #summerreads #recommended #grade3 #grade4 #grade5 #reading #literacy #graphicnovels #manga #kidsbooks #justforfun #welovereading #getcaughtreading

#Vocabulary strategy of the day: using word parts we recognize and chunking #summerlearning #literacy #individualizedlearning #differentiated #learningprogressions

Semi-annual trip to @vankidsbooks and I had no intention of buying more books, but brought home these new treasures! Have you read any of them? #newbooks #summerreads #disabilitypridemonth #diversebooks #diversereads #inclusion #dyslexia #deaf #deafkidsrock #neurodiversity #tourettesyndrome

We levelled up our word sort work today. We are still working on suffixes and used this great resource from @tarheelstate_teacher We loved it! Thank you for sharing it! #summerlearning #wordwork #vocabularybuilding #literacy #reading #morningroutines

Check out some of the new #vocabulary words that we have found in our novels! #newwords #summerlearning #contextclues #reading

What is more quintessentially summer than reading outside? We are fortunate to have forest and shade close by. #literacy #summerlearning #kidlit #summerreads

Today’s adventure in summer literacy was all about visualizing! Describing the setting, using our sense to imagine what we would see? Hear? Smell? Touch? Can you guess which books we are reading by these illustrations of the setting? #literacy #summerlearning #litcircles #kidlit

Adventures in summer #literacy! I’m working with a fantastic group of young people, we created a charter based on how they want to feel during #summerlearning they generated questions to help pick a good book, and then we did a #booktasting to find a few good books for each of them! #kidlit #reading

Blessed to have to the opportunity to return to Whitehorse last week. Time to listen, learn alongside wise elders, and hear stories across diverse perspectives. #grateful #heartfull #generativeconversations

Panel description for our panel on Social Justice in Higher Education and Leadership

Grateful for the intentional space that was held for learning and generative discourse. And for the many new connections with scholars and practitioners and the possibilities of future conversations.

#TeacherCandidates recognize #EarthDay with ways to care for the Earth! #schoolart #collaborativeart #teachereducation #UFV_SoE #ufv_fechd

And that’s a wrap on an amazing trip - Whitehorse, the traditional and current lands of Ta'an Kwäch'än Council and the Kwanlin Dün First Nation. The warmth and welcome of the many people I met… the stories I heard… and those I learned alongside… feeling grateful and blessed!

#FooknConversationEP63! I had a excellent conversation with Mark Priestly the University of Stirling and Stavroula Philippou at the University of Cyprus. We discussed research on #CurriculumMaking and work as past editors of the Curriculum Journal.
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So many provocations that will have me thinking for a long time. Grateful to hear about Dr. ABC's journey of self-decolonization.