On our weekly Breakdown of the week in Alberta Politics, PR specialist and politico Sarah Biggs helps us navigate all of the events of the week, and this week we talk curriculum, Matt Wolfs departure from his government role, the ongoing conversation around the UCP Leadership review and more!

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On our weekly Breakdown of the week in Alberta Politics, PR specialist and politico Sarah Biggs helps us navigate all of the events of the week, and this week we talk curriculum, Matt Wolfs departure from his government role, the ongoing conversation around the UCP Leadership review and more!

As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, and if you’re listening to the audio version of our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a rating and don’t forget to like and follow us on facebook, twitter and instagram all at @thebreakdownab.

We’ve done a few episodes on the proposed UCP curriculum now, but all of those have been on the level of academic critiques by subject matter experts.

But this proposed curriculum has also mobilized everyday Albertans in tremendous ways. To get a better understanding of what their concerns are, we reached out to the Albertans Reject Curriculum Draft Facebook page and had conversations with 3 of the members, which we’re presenting in 3 separate episodes.

In Part 3, we chat with Dr. Angela Grace, a Psychologist who is deeply invested in the quality of the curriculum that Alberta’s kids are taught, not only because she views it through the lens of a Counselling Psychologist but also because before the obtained her PHD in psychology, she was a teacher who saw first hand the impact that curriculum can have own the wellness and development of children. Dr. Grace also has the insight of having worked on the previous curriculum draft and was generous enough to share her serious concerns as to how Jason Kenney’s curriculum draft was created and what she believes the catastrophic long term impact of it will be.

As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, and if you’re listening to the audio version of our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a rating and don’t forget to like and follow us on facebook, twitter and instagram all at @thebreakdownab.

We’ve done a few episodes on the proposed UCP curriculum now, but all of those have been on the level of academic critiques by subject matter experts.

But this proposed curriculum has also mobilized everyday Albertans in tremendous ways. To get a better understanding of what their concerns are, we reached out to the Albertans Reject Curriculum Draft Facebook page and had conversations with 3 of the members, which we’re presenting in 3 separate episodes.

In Part 3, we chat with Dr. Angela Grace, a Psychologist who is deeply invested in the quality of the curriculum that Alberta’s kids are taught, not only because she views it through the lens of a Counselling Psychologist but also because before the obtained her PHD in psychology, she was a teacher who saw first hand the impact that curriculum can have own the wellness and development of children. Dr. Grace also has the insight of having worked on the previous curriculum draft and was generous enough to share her serious concerns as to how Jason Kenney’s curriculum draft was created and what she believes the catastrophic long term impact of it will be.

As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, and if you’re listening to the audio version of our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a rating and don’t forget to like and follow us on facebook, twitter and instagram all at @thebreakdownab.

On our weekly Breakdown of the week in Alberta Politics, PR specialist and politico Sarah Biggs helps us navigate all of the vents of the week, including the UCP AGM, their conscience rights policy (with a surprise appearance by a ex-UCP press secretary Payman Parseyan), the leadership review and the discussion on the people who want Jason Kenney’s job heating up, the shortfalls of the new childcare deal with some very important perspective from Dr. Stephanie Cooper and more!

As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, and if you’re listening to the audio version of our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a rating and don’t forget to like and follow us on facebook, twitter and instagram all at @thebreakdownab.

On our weekly Breakdown of the week in Alberta Politics, PR specialist and politico Sarah Biggs helps us navigate all of the vents of the week, including the UCP AGM, their conscience rights policy (with a surprise appearance by a ex-UCP press secretary Payman Parseyan), the leadership review and the discussion on the people who want Jason Kenney’s job heating up, the shortfalls of the new childcare deal with some very important perspective from Dr. Stephanie Cooper and more!

As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, and if you’re listening to the audio version of our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a rating and don’t forget to like and follow us on facebook, twitter and instagram all at @thebreakdownab.

We’ve done a few episodes on the proposed UCP curriculum now, but all of those have been on the level of academic critiques by subject matter experts.

But this proposed curriculum has also mobilized everyday Albertans in tremendous ways. To get a better understanding of what their concerns are, we reached out to the Albertans Reject Curriculum Draft Facebook page and had conversations with 3 of the members, which we’re presenting in 3 separate episodes.

In Part 2, we chat with Andrea Willman, a parent, a small business owner and a teacher in the Alberta School System who looks at the draft curriculum through all of those lenses. In particular though, Andrea highlights the fact that the education system is already strained last any reasonable measure, and the effect that the draft curriculum will have on teachers may well be what pushes many of them over the edge and out of teaching entirely.

As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, and if you’re listening to the audio version of our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a rating and don’t forget to like and follow us on facebook, twitter and instagram all at @thebreakdownab.

We’ve done a few episodes on the proposed UCP curriculum now, but all of those have been on the level of academic critiques by subject matter experts.

But this proposed curriculum has also mobilized everyday Albertans in tremendous ways. To get a better understanding of what their concerns are, we reached out to the Albertans Reject Curriculum Draft Facebook page and had conversations with 3 of the members, which we’re presenting in 3 separate episodes.

In Part 2, we chat with Andrea Willman, a parent, a small business owner and a teacher in the Alberta School System who looks at the draft curriculum through all of those lenses. In particular though, Andrea highlights the fact that the education system is already strained last any reasonable measure, and the effect that the draft curriculum will have on teachers may well be what pushes many of them over the edge and out of teaching entirely.

As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, and if you’re listening to the audio version of our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a rating and don’t forget to like and follow us on facebook, twitter and instagram all at @thebreakdownab.

The UCP AGM is starting, so we wanted to break down what all the controversy is about (including the stuff that involves us) and we also got to catch up with none other than Dave Khan to talk about some of the peaceful protests going on this weekend!

The UCP AGM is starting, so we wanted to break down what all the controversy is about (including the stuff that involves us) and we also got to catch up with none other than Dave Khan to talk about some of the peaceful protests going on this weekend!