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About Me | Tom Kertes Personal Blog
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Tom Kertes Personal Blog. Queen Charlotte, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. This is my online home for personal news and updates for friends and family. If you don’t know me yet, my name’s Tom Kertes. And my friends call me Curtis, which is how you’d spell my last name if it were originally English. There are two stories to my name. First, when my ancestors on my dad’s side immigrated to the United States from Hungary, the family name ( Kertész). Was anglicized to Kertes (but pronounced Curtis). I moved to...
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Curriculum, Content, and Teaching
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Reflections on the Values of Public Education. Curriculum, Content, and Teaching. November 16, 2015. Here are some of my reflections from today:. In teaching, curriculum and content matter. How to independently read and write effortlessly and with understanding. To see themselves as literate and as capable of understanding the world through critical reading and writing. And finally, how to understand the relationships, structures, and systems that explain our shared reality, so that each student can part...
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April | 2015 | Tom Kertes Personal Blog
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Tom Kertes Personal Blog. Queen Charlotte, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Monthly Archives: April 2015. April 27, 2015. Comments Off on Another brief update. Life is on the move and it’s hard to keep up with things. Ron moved up at the start of this month. We are staying in vacation rental in Lawn Hill. This means my commute is now about 45 minutes each day. We’ve also spent plenty of time on group dynamics and leadership. I enjoy working at this level, moving beyond foundational skills to more...Not too...
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Tom Kertes | Tom Kertes Personal Blog
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Tom Kertes Personal Blog. Queen Charlotte, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Author Archives: Tom Kertes. On the Music Festival & Being Good Neighbours. August 8, 2016. Comments Off on On the Music Festival & Being Good Neighbours. One of the reasons why I now live in Haida Gwaii is because I happened to attend the Edge of the World music festival. Comments Off on On the Music Festival & Being Good Neighbours. August 3, 2016. Comments Off on Summer 2016 Update. Comments Off on Summer 2016 Update. History Ma...
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Why Teach Children about Cultural Genocide?
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Reflections on the Values of Public Education. Why Teach Children about Cultural Genocide? August 27, 2015. Also embedded within this inheritance are stolen lands, broken promises, abusive relationships, and dangerous ideas of racial superiority and inhuman ways of being together. Our country has a shameful history, which informs the present as much as the past. The question for us today is: Will we overcome the shameful conditions of the past and make right our relations with each other today? Uuyas Naa...
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TYEE: Why Teachers Fear the Worst of Clark Government
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Reflections on the Values of Public Education. TYEE: Why Teachers Fear the Worst of Clark Government. September 10, 2014. Read my column at TheTyee.ca. On the value of public education and how BC Liberals may be threatening to take away our public school system:. Next post: How the BCTF Challenges Clark’s American-Style Politics. Previous post: TYEE: With Teacher Contract, Clark Could’ve Lifted Women Workers Up. Education for All is by Tom Kertes. Tom Kertes Home Page. 2015-2017 by Tom Kertes.
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TYEE: Three Labour Lessons from the Teachers’ Strike
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Reflections on the Values of Public Education. TYEE: Three Labour Lessons from the Teachers’ Strike. September 19, 2014. Read my column in today’s Tyee. On lessons learned from the public school strike:. Next post: My Response to Tara Ehrcke’s Lessons Learned from the Public School Strike. Previous post: How the BCTF Challenges Clark’s American-Style Politics. Education for All is by Tom Kertes. Tom Kertes teaches high school for the Haida Gwaii School District (#50) at Gid G. Tom also writes a weekly co...
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Kidz City!: Kidz City @ Facing Race, Nov. 15-17 --- Racial Justice and Childcare
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Communiques from the Kidz City Collective. Monday, October 15, 2012. Kidz City @ Facing Race, Nov. 15-17 - - Racial Justice and Childcare. Recently I send out an email- posted below- to different groups that we had brainstormed about that we would like to reach out to and put on our list. There are so many different amazing people doing so much good works in this city! With "childcare volunteer" in the subject line. Xo building for the future,. Hello from Kidz City! November 15 – 17. Also wanted to take ...
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Kidz City!: "What would a Femme Shark Do?"
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Communiques from the Kidz City Collective. Monday, July 16, 2012. What would a Femme Shark Do? Body of a balloon, mouth like a piranha, fin like a party hat. . . hear me bite your butt]. Funny, this is the last thing one of my collective members said after our brainstorming meeting- at the wonderful and inspiring 901 Arts. Yesterday - and it stuck in my head this morning. I think that we kidz city collective members are being more inspired by the Femme Sharks. Just because we fried up falafel in a pan an...
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