Features

During the summer of 2006, as I was working through an AQ course, there was one question that I endlessly fretted over: how to initiate a professional learning community (PLC).

Many ETFO members are involved in projects with an international focus. Some have been featured in past issues of Voice: for example, “A School Without Borders” (Winter 2006) and “The Power of Global Collaborative Learning” (April 2008).

7 juillet 2008, départ d’Ottawa pour le Burkin Faso en Afrique de l’Ouest, surnommé le « Pays des hommes intègres ». Nous étions trois femmes et un homme venus de quatre provinces différentes.

My primary assignment as a Project Overseas participant in Uganda was to facilitate, with my Ugandan co-tutor, a series of workshops in early literacy for Ugandan teachers.

It’s an unusual experience for the children of the First Nations School (FNS) in Toronto’s downtown east end to have a bearskin, with the animal’s head still attached, spread out in their room.

Scott Young Public School is a grade 5 to 8 school in Omemee, a community west of Peterborough. The school is the home of an award-winning environmental education program.

Innoteach, as the name suggests, is about technological innovation – in the classroom and in how ETFO offers professional learning programs.

Feet shuffling to the beat, fingers snapping, tunes cranking – our students reluctantly stuff their iPods in their pockets as they enter our classrooms. Music is a passion for them: pop, rock, hip hop, and rap. They love the rhythms.