Walking With Our Sisters
ETFO’s annual leadership conference for women, … and still we rise (ASWR), is known for providing inspiring ideas women educators can use to make a difference in their classrooms and communities.
Leadership
Project Overseas
Project Overseas. These words hung in the back of my mind for almost a decade. At the Thanksgiving table in 2007, I explained to my family how PO, as it is affectionately called, sends Canadian teachers to work internationally to deliver in-service to untrained and undertrained teachers.
Monarch Magic
In July of 2007, my life changed forever – by attending a workshop. I remember reading the flyer. “Best workshop I’ve ever taken,” raved one teacher. Really? I wondered how they could spend three days talking about one thing – the monarch butterfly.
ETFO Leadership Programs for Women
Eighty-one per cent of ETFO’s members are women. As part of its ongoing commitment to equity, ETFO makes it a priority to encourage women’s leadership in the union. This commitment is reflected in an ever-growing number of leadership programs offered to women members.
Your Federation: Representative Council, May 13-14, 2015; The Pridehouse That Kids Built; Union School 2015; Building Better Schools: An Update
Representative Council May 13-14, 2015 The May Representative Council meeting opened with President Sam Hammond thanking local leaders for their input and feedback on Phase 1 of the work-to-rule strike action that began on May 11.
ETFO: A Union That Takes Action (From the General Secretary)
ETFO is a union that takes action even in the quietest of times. But these are not quiet times, and ETFO’s activism is at the heart of an organization that cares about the future of public education and the social justice and equity issues that affect women, children, families and communities in Ontario and beyond.
Teachers as Mentors: Encouraging Self-Worth Through Positive Relationships
By the end of September my frustration with one of my students had risen to the point that I no longer knew what to do or how to get through to her.
Your Federation
More than 185 members attended the October Representative Council, including 23 participants in ETFO’s Leaders for Tomorrow program.
Your Federation
President Hammond welcomed Representative Council members to their first meeting at ETFO’s new building. With the completion of the 2012 round of collective bargaining earlier in October, President Hammond thanked local presidents for their unwavering leadership over the past two years.
Three ETFO Programs Devoted to Women’s Leadership Development (Equity and Women's Services)
ETFO is committed to working toward a more just and equitable society, and has a particular commitment to supporting women’s participation and leadership in the union.