More than 100 delegates and 35 union school representatives attended February’s Representative Council meeting. President Hammond spoke to the importance of ETFO’s participation in creating positive social and political change for all Ontarians.
From this beginning, our class began a journey that would collect more than 5,000 items for donation in a little over a week’s time!
This spring the students of Churchill Alternative School, in Ottawa, Ontario, will be marking a major milestone, as will the school staff and community.
Late last spring, our principal announced to the staff that we were going to offer a free field trip to every student in our school. She told teachers to plan a one-day, curriculum-related field trip, anywhere we wanted.
In early October 2011, just as the school year shifted into high gear, art collective Mammalian Diving Reflex approached our principal with an idea. They were looking for two teachers to work with them on an exciting community-based project called These Are the People in Your Neighbourhood.
UNESCO describes the role of education for sustainable development as helping people “develop the attitudes, skills, and knowledge to make informed decisions for the benefit of themselves and others, now and for the future, and to act upon those decisions.” This is th
Dave Wing is the president of the Kawartha Pine Ridge ETFO Local. He started teaching in 1989. Today he is married (to another teacher) and has two children, ages five and seven. He spoke with Voice about his leadership journey.
When I was a young learner there was a clearly defined understanding of the role of teachers in schooling and in their interactions with students and families.
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).
Karen Fisk is the full-time president of ETFO’s Hastings-Prince Edward Local. Today she’s known in her community not just as the head of the 702 member local but also as a playwright and producer.