On Thursday, April 5th, 2018, we celebrated the 2-year anniversary of #tdsbEd Twitter chat, our TDSB district-wide online chat! We planned an evening at 5050 Yonge, the board office for a face-to-face celebration and chat.

If you haven’t heard of #tdsbEd before you can check out the website here. Our mission is to connect, share and learn with educators and staff of the Toronto District School Board. Our best resource as teachers is one another and we want to promote and celebrate that through the chat. We’ve had several chats now since Arianna and I began moderating and created #tdsbEd 2 years ago. If you’d like to know how it all started you can check out this post.

Here’s a list of some of the topics we’ve covered since last year’s anniversary:

Connecting with Students Through Music – 3/5/18
True Collaboration & Shared Leadership with Special Guest Moderators Yvonne Bristow & Chris Sands – 19/4/18
Celebrating 2 Years of Connecting, Sharing & Learning Together – 5/4/18
Building A Culture Of Learning In Your Classroom & Beyond – 22/3/18
Student Voice & Leadership – 8/3/18
Bridging The Divide Between Elementary & Secondary With Special Guest Moderator Jason Trinh – 22/2/18
Equity With Special Guest Moderators Jeewan Chanicka and Lynn Strangway – 8/2/18
A Special Chat With The TDSB Professional Library & Christina Saunders for #tdsbReads – 25/1/18
Professional Learning Communities – 11/1/18
Mindfulness For Teachers: Recharging For 2018 – 14/12/17
Coding With Purpose – 30/11/17
Digital Tools For All Learners – 16/11/17
Critical Thinking & Real-Life Problem Solving for Students – 2/11/17
Courageous Conversations: Indigenous Perspectives in the Classroom – 19/10/17
Making With Students In The Classroom – 5/10/17
G Suite Edu: Tips, Tricks & Tasks – 21/9/17
Your Learning Environment – 7/9/17
Gearing Up For Back to School – 24/8/17
Self-Directed Professional Development – 13/7/17
Wrapping Up Another Wonderful School Year – 15/6/17
Green Screening In The Classroom – 1/6/17
Bringing The Community Into The Classroom – 18/5/17
The Global Competencies – 4/5/17
Spring’s Here! Get Active – 20/4/17

Thank you to our faithful #tdsbEd Twitter Chat participants and everyone who’s ever taken part. The community is growing and we appreciate all of the experts coming on to guest moderate with us! It feels great to be part of this awesome PLN with amazing people! Have an idea for a topic? Check out this page to add your thoughts. 

Hope you’ll join us bi-weekly on Thursdays from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EST on Twitter, be sure to follow @tdsbEdChat @MsALambert and @MrsGeekChic for all the details!