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Nicole Hurtubise

@mshurtubise.bsky.social
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She/Her. Teacher-Librarian. Aunt. STA Local Rep. BCTLA executive. Hufflepuff. Nature Enthusiast. Avid reader. #sd36tl #sd36learn #BCTLA #TLsky

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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 #BCTLA awards 👏 I’m esp proud of Surrey TL helping teacher @mrsmacdonald.bsky.social for winning the President’s Award! She’s a prime example of the wonderful, hardworking TLs in Surrey!
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Less than 48 hours to the STA Executive Committee election. Double check that you’ve registered and received your Simply Voting link. If you’ve haven’t registered, then go to www.surreyteachers.org/agm2025 And be ready to vote for me as your next ProD officer.
Nicole is giving the camera a silly face as she holds up a tabletop name tent for her one of her many STA committees.
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Vote for me as your next STA ProD Officer! I’m a current Teacher-Librarian, Local Rep to the BCTF, BCTLA leader and of course a ProD advocate. I’m committed to inclusive, teacher-led learning with a focus on anti-racism and Truth & Reconciliation. Let's build stronger, supportive STA together!
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Surrey Teachers’ Association @surreyteachers.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
📢 The Surrey Teachers’ Association, CUPE 728, and Surrey DPAC have launched a joint campaign demanding action from Premier @davidebybc.bsky.social and Finance Minister @brendavancouver.bsky.social. Why? Because #SurreyStudentsDeserveBetter! 👉 surreystudentsdeservebetter.ca #bced #bcpoli #SurreyBC
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Surrey Teachers’ Association @surreyteachers.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Surrey teachers, parents & education workers have launched #SurreyStudentsDeserveBetter to demand urgent investment in our public schools. Overcrowded classrooms, cuts to supports, broken promises - our kids deserve better. 📢 Learn more: surreystudentsdeservebetter.ca #bced #bcpoli
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Surrey Teachers’ Association @surreyteachers.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
SurreyDPAC, CUPE728 & STA have launched a campaign calling on the BC government to fully fund public education. Overcrowded classrooms, cuts to EAs & programs, and 360+ portables are unacceptable. Join the campaign: surreystudentsdeservebetter.ca #SurreyStudentsDeserveBetter #bced #bcpoli #SurreyBC
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Surrey Teachers’ Association @surreyteachers.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A heartfelt thank you to the Surrey Fire Fighters and Mayor Locke for your generous paper donation to our classrooms. Your continued support reminds us that we’re stronger when we stand together in solidarity for our community’s kids. surreystudentsdeservebetter.ca #bced #bcpoli #surreybc
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Surrey Teachers’ Association @surreyteachers.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Surrey schools are overcrowded, underfunded, and stretched thin—while provincial promises go unmet. STA, CUPE728 & Surrey DPAC say: enough is enough. It’s time to fund public education like our kids’ futures depend on it—because they do. 👉 surreystudentsdeservebetter.ca #bced #bcpoli #SurreyBC
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Surrey Teachers’ Association @surreyteachers.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Surrey has cut elementary band. People once moved here because of strong public programs. Now they’re being gutted. This is what chronic underfunding looks like. Cuts by the BC Liberals weren’t reversed by the NDP - and kids are paying the price. @lizannefoster.bsky.social on @vancolour.bsky.social
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Surrey Teachers’ Association @surreyteachers.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Our hearts are heavy following the devastating events at the Lapu-Lapu Day block party in Vancouver. We grieve alongside the Filipino community and all those touched by this tragedy. The Surrey Teachers’ Association stands with you in sorrow, in strength, and in solidarity.
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Jen D Lake (she/her) @jendlake.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
To all those celebrating #EidAlFitr and the end of #Ramadan May this #Eid bring you, your family & community happiness, blessings and peace
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Canadian School Library @cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Read about the Angela Thacker Memorial Award, and Donald Hamilton School Advocacy Award winners in our winter edition of Canadian School Library Journal. journal.canadianschoollibraries.ca/category/awa...
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Good article. #BCTLA #sd36tl
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Colleen Heidrich @mrscheidrich.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Thanks to an #sd36tl colleague sharing her template for the post it notes, I’ve started a table of first in a series books and they’re moving quickly! #booklive #mglit #kidlit #teacherskybrarians
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TEACH Mag @teachmag.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#ContestAlert 🎉 We're giving away a huge selection of #Canadian books featured in our latest Teaching Through Books series! 📌Like, follow & repost to enter 📌Contest ends March 31, 11:59 EDT Explore our free teaching resource here: bit.ly/4kO3MKq #CanLit #Giveaway #K12
An image showing several of the Canadian titles that are featured in the giveaway.
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I’m a proponent of tariffs but believe that books should be exempt. School library budgets are already stretched thin. Please take 5 mins to fill this in: forms-formulaires.alpha.canada.ca/en/id/cm7upm... The items to flag: 4901.10.00 4901.92.00 4901.99.00 4902.10.00 4902.90.00 4903.00.00 #BCTLA
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Consultations on Canada’s Response to United States Tariffs on Canadian Goods: Comment Submission Form
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Calling all BC teacher-librarians! Save the date for the 2025 BCTLA conference with keynote @mychal3ts.bsky.social Let’s celebrate how magical libraries - and teacher-librarians like you - are! #sd36tl #BCTLA
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This week in the LLC at Morgan Elementary we are reading Surrey Schools narrative nonfiction picture book of the year nominee Jumper by Jessica Lanan. Q: what would the world look like if you were the size of a bean? #sd36tl #SSNNPBOY #BCTLA #narrativenonfiction
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
It’s that time of the year when the BCTLA starts planning our PSA day conference in October. If you’re a BC TL, consider leading a virtual or in-person session. #sd36tl #BCTLA
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Morgan Elementary’s book of the week is “Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior” by C. Lindstrom and illustrator B. George. A #ssnnfboy nominee, this story is about Autumn, an Indigenous young woman who has dedicated her life to advocating for the protection of water. #sd36tl #BCTLA #sd36learn #ssnnfboy
Cover of Carole Lindstrom’s book Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior. The illustration shows Autumn and her great aunt, Anishinaabe elder Grandma Josephine, facing each other.
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Todd Burleson @tburleson.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Are you a teacher librarian or someone who wants to be sure that ALL of your students feel seen and valued? Then, you should sign up for this FREE webinar on January 8th I'm hosting with Book an Author.
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The first 2025 Book of the Week at Morgan Elementary will be “Fail-a-bration!” by Brad & Kristi Montague. As adults talk about new years solutions, we’ll talk about how mistakes can help us learn and grow. #sd36tl #BCTLA #MorganBOTW
Book cover for Fail-a-bration! A child stands behind a fallen cake.
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West Coast Librarian @sylvianurse.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Niagara Falls library provides $36.5M economic benefit: study www.wellandtribune.ca/news/niagara... #libraries
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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Jimmy Carter also supported libraries. In 1976 he said: “I believe that federal help for the nation's library system should be funded on a sustained & stable basis. If we are to have an educated & informed population we need a strong & open library system supported by a committed administration.”
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msbenison.bsky.social @msbenison.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
#SOR #Edusky
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
This sounds interesting. I’ve signed up. I’m double booked but hoping my other meeting ends on time. #BCTLA #sd36tl
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I saw this study and few years ago & did an audit of the pic book collection at Morgan. Our results were close. I’ve made a concentrated effort to purchase books featuring characters who are Indigenous, Asian, other POC, neurodiverse, and Immigrants, authored by own voice. #sd36learn #BCTLA #sd36tl
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Here’s a list of PD conferences that could work for the $5000 STA ProD Funding Draw. Although these conferences are for 2025, it may give you fun ideas to research for 2026. The form for the draw can be sent in anytime before the May 1st, 4pm deadline. #Surreyteachersassociation
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
To those who celebrate, Happy Kwanzaa!
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M. Bains @mbains.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Give the gift of reading by wrapping up one of Surrey Schools Book of the Year Nominees. #thegiftofreading #surreyschoolsbookawards #surrreyschoolsbookoftheyear #sd36tl #mglit 🎄📚
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Happy Holidays friends!
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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
@fuse8.bsky.social makes 31 (!!) year-end lists that are just stellar for building future order lists of things I’ve missed. Here’s one fave: afuse8production.slj.com/2024/12/02/3... I know I was just meant to do the announcer voice sound effects she mentions in Dog Vs Strawberry. Plus…
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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Picture Book Readalouds
Today, we celebrate the books that can enrapture in mere moments thanks to the power of words and images (and your own vocal chords) alone.
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Here’s the top ten books Morgan Elementary students checked out in 2024. Happy to see half were 2023/24 Surrey Schools Book of the Year nominees. #SSBOY #sd36tl #BCTLA
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Morgan Elementary students from K to gr 3/4 listened to all 10 of the Surrey Schools Picture Book of the Year nominees. They then voted for their favourite. Our winner is Too Many Pigs and One Big Bad Wolf. We look forward to the district results in Spring. #sd36tl #sd36learn #skybarian
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Lizanne Foster @lizannefoster.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
"I hope the premier keeps his promises. We’ll be watching, expectantly," Surrey Teachers' Association president Lizanne Foster said at a press conference www.cloverdalereporter.com/local-news/s...
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Surrey schools grappling with violence, student isolation: unions
'This is no longer a past government’s issue, something that was inherited. This is a this government’s issue,' DPAC chair says
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Lizanne Foster @lizannefoster.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
“The violence acting out is saying, ‘Please help me, please help me, please help me,'” Foster said. “And they are saying that to people who cannot help because they don’t have the resources, we are stretched too thin.” globalnews.ca/news/1092060...
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‘Unsafe conditions’: Surrey falling behind on inclusive education, advocates warn - BC | Globalnews.ca
Parents, teachers and education assistants say the Surrey School District faces a dire need for more support workers for students with disabilities and special needs.
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Lizanne Foster @lizannefoster.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
“There are ways to deal with and respond to the teacher shortage,” said Lizanne Foster, president of the Surrey Teachers’ Association. ... there are not enough teachers for the needs of students to be met.” bc.ctvnews.ca/teachers-par...
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Teachers, parents press B.C. NDP government on Surrey school concerns
Teachers, parents and school support workers are pushing for more action – and more funding – from the NDP government when it comes to Surrey schools.
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Lizanne Foster @lizannefoster.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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Shaunna MacDonald @mrsmacdonald.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Entice your BC TL colleagues over to BlueSky🦋!- use this starter pack link as a one-stop-stop of BC TL friends 🫶 #BCTLA Let me know if you are a BC Teacher Librarian to be added to the list! #TLSky 📚 go.bsky.app/5cfJDML
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Canadian School Library @cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Have you signed up for The Ontario Library Superconference yet? Be sure to add TMC8 to your full conference experience. OR come to the TMC8 conference for $275 Full details: tmc.canadianschoollibraries.ca/.../TMC8... #TLSky #EduSky
TMC8 details
• Access to all Friday workshops & Super Expo
• Friday Super Conference school library sessions, including OSLA Spotlight Speaker Lindsay Zier-Vogel
• Friday evening dinner with TMC Keynote Speaker Leslie Weir
• Continental breakfast and boxed lunch Saturday
• Interactive TMC Research Symposium led by Canadian School Libraries leaders
• TMC Spotlight Speakers Dr. Keith Curry Lance and Dr. Dianne Oberg
• Table Talks and papers by school library learning leaders
See full details here: https://tmc.canadianschoollibraries.ca/.../TMC8...
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Yesterday was spent with members of the STA Convention committee. This small but mighty group plans pd for over 5000 Surrey teachers! Also open to more volunteers. #surreyteachers #STAconvention #BCTF
Eight teachers sitting at a table planning a convention
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Fellow BC teacher-librarians, we need to support these American authors. Many of the books we purchase for our collections are American and we need to have books that represent the lived experience of ALL our students. #BCTLA #sd36tl #CanadianSchoolLibraries
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I had a busy week as a rep for the STA/BCTF at the biennial BCFed Convention. Highlights included listening to guest speakers like Jagmeet Singh & Len Pierre, seeing the support unions are giving 2SLGBTQIA+ workers, and connecting with fellow teachers. #sd36tl #BCTF #BCFed2024
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Jennifer Ventress @jenventress.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
glad to be here!
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
So… is this new place where the cool (aka accepting, anti-oppressive) book lovers hang out? #sd36tl #sd36learn #BCTLA #teacherlibrarian
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Morgan Elementary K - gr 4 students voted for their favourite Surrey Schools Picture Book of the Year. Our winner is Chickadee: Criminal Mastermind by Monica Silvia. Looking forward to seeing how other schools vote #sd36tl #SSPBOY #BCTLA
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Yesterday I watched the Centre for Freedom of Expression presentation “school libraries, and curriculum under attack.” It’s disheartening to hear the rise of book challenges, esp 2SLGBTQIA+ ones. But it’s also good knowing TLs don’t stand alone. #BCTLA #sd36tl #CFE
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Nicole Hurtubise @mshurtubise.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
I genrefied the NF section at my K-7 school. What are your students fav nonfiction books published in the last five year? #askalibrarian #BCTLA #teacherlibrarian
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Shaunna MacDonald @mrsmacdonald.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Thanks to #sd36tl @mshurtubise.bsky.social for hosting a #GenrefyingNF round table discussion today. So much work and consideration put into her collection, and all worth it for the increased checkout and ownership in the NF section! 👏
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Melissa Roske @melissaroske.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Thanks to @amandamacgregor.bsky.social for sharing this deep dive into the current climate regarding MG/YA book sales, written by Teen Librarian Toolbox blogger/librarian @tltkaren.bsky.social My thoughts? We need more Upper MG to fill the gap #kidlit teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2023/10/18/a...
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