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The Ontario Fail-to-Fill Issue

Zaiba Beg and Todd Rimmington consider the causes and impacts of the fail-to-fills.

Taking Time To Learn: Learning and Doing Together

June Chang-Vollans

Junior kindergarten is a different world from any other grade. When I first started teaching at the junior kindergarten level nine years ago, I was shocked both by the demands of welcoming all these children attending school for the first time and by my own personal reactions to this new level.

Taking Time To Learn: Don't Sweat the Active Stuff

Fansita Housdon

ETFO’s Summer Academy workshops are a great learning and networking opportunity for both presenters and participants. Our workshops highlight the wealth of knowledge that we stand to gain from our interactions with one another.

Taking Time To Learn: Strategies for Surviving While Smiling

Donna Chapman, Annamari Pouti-Fletcher, and Marion Mutton

Like learning to skate, becoming a successful teacher is easier with a helping hand, according to Annamari Pouti-Fletcher. The Windsor area teacher has reaped a lot of benefit from ETFO’s new teacher workshops.

Professional Learning Communities Sharing Knowledge and Leadership: Collaborating and Communicating Online

Rhea Perreira-Foyle

Reflections on Practice is a women’s leadership institute based on the concept of professional learning communities (PLCs). Forty female teachers from all over Ontario come together for four days in the summer and two days each in the fall and spring, to learn more about PLCs, to collaborate with each other, and to refine their teaching practices. Each participant is expected to complete an action research project on a topic of her choice.