It is fitting, in ETFO’s 10th anniversary year, that we celebrate its successes. However, we must also look, acknowledge and reflect on the challenges that bind the 155,000 members of the Ontario Teachers’ Federation (OTF).
Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, believes that the programs and services unions provide in addition to collective bargaining are the heart and soul of the union movement.
Many ETFO members have fond memories of the Federation of Women Teachers’ Associations of Ontario (FWTAO) and the Ontario Public School Teachers’ Federation (OPSTF), the two organizations that&
It is five o’clock. and the agenda indicates that the staff meeting should be wrapping up, but the principal mentions some interesting trends in the recently released schoolwide scores and asks staff to stay and discuss them.
“The heart of a school.”1 Roch Carrier, Canadian author and National Librarian, used this phrase to describe school libraries. Think of a school library you have visited recently. Would you describe it in the same way?
A session at a conference I recently attended focused on a provocative and compelling new report from the Commission on the Whole Child, formed by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). The Learnin
During the recent provincial election the McGuinty Liberals promised to spend $400 million to provide full-day kindergarten. The program would be in place by the end of the government’s mandate in 2011.
For many decades there has been a funding gap in Ontario’s education system.
With only a few months to go before the next provincial election, ETFO members should use their assessment skills to evaluate the Liberal government’s record and the platforms of all the political parties. Education commitments figured prominently in the 2003 Liberal election p
In February ETFO launched the first stage of Closing the Gap, our campaign to achieve equitable funding for elementary education in this province.