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This magazine has many archived articles that may be of interest to you, and you can sign up for free because of the CQSB’s affiliation:

• https://www.edcan.ca/magazine/fall-2018/

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Here’s a PED Day challenge: Let’s see if you can pass these tests as successfully as the teachers in this video:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg37L5z5r_M

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Need some help coming up with classroom rules? This video could help:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iQg16bEGGM

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This is a video that has no obvious pedagogical application, other than inspiration for art or video projects. Let’s just zone out and watch it while we recover from a marathon first week with students:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BrDlrytgm8

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This week’s link is LV’s nephew’s website. Even if you aren’t a Phys. Ed. teacher (or if you don’t know what he means by the “dancing banana clipboard coach”), there are posters and games that may interest you.

• https://thephysicaleducator.com/

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Since we had so many teachers join the Summer Math Cohort this year, we’ll be talking a lot about math this year so our first clip of the school year is about math:

• https://buildmathminds.com/

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An opinion that may raise questions, and an old article that goes to show how little things have changed over the last six years:

• http://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-quebec-should-get-rid-of-high-school-ministry-exams
• http://journalmetro.com/local/verdun/actualites/632130/questions-still-linger-over-high-school-sec-4-and-5-june-exam-results/

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Check our Grade 6 students in this video Clip from the Elementary Performing Arts Festival back in April:

• https://www.cqsbperformingartsfestival.com/2018-paf-videosvideacuteos-fas-elementaryprimaire.html

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Although the resources are pretty much only in French, you may find the selection of free electronic books (including teacher resource books) very interesting on SAMUEL (Simplified Access for MUltidisciplinary Education and Learning):

• https://www.copibecnumerique.ca/bundles?l=fr

• https://www.copibec.ca/en/samuel

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Socio-economic status has been shown to impact the vocabulary development of children. As a matter of fact, the difference in size of vocabulary between rich families and poor ones has been come to be known as the “word gap,” a difference as high as 30 million words by age three. Understanding the obstacles faced by many of our students could help us impact their lives. Read more to make your own connections:

• https://www.npr.org/2013/12/29/257922222/closing-the-word-gap-between-rich-and-poor
• https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/10/american-kids-are-starving-for-words/381552/
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-athletes-way/201402/tackling-the-vocabulary-gap-between-rich-and-poor-children