Like many other ETFO leaders, Julie Stanley brings years of experience to her position as chief negotiator for the Bluewater Teacher Local. Stanley is typical of a unique group of experienced women negotiators leading collective bargaining teams across the province.
ETFO’s annual leadership conference for women, …and still we rise, celebrated its tenth anniversary this year. The conference takes its name from the Maya Angelou poem, Still I Rise.
The federation’s executive took a bold step in September when it agreed to a plan for developing ETFO online additional qualification (AQ) courses. While ETFO has gained a reputation for the delivery of high-quality face-to-face AQ courses, we have never offered an AQ course totally online.
Education assistants make up a small fraction of the ETFO membership. But the impact they have in the classroom can be substantial.
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.
For most Canadians, the annual switch from long to short sleeves is a welcome sign of spring. Until recently however, Laurel Liddicoat-Newton dreaded the thought of baring her arms and legs in front of staff and students.
Teacher, union leader, political/social activist, wife and mother, Wells is a person who wears a variety of hats, often simultaneously.
It brings a smile to my face when I look back and recall just how I came to the profession that I now am truly passionate about and fully committed to.
When both of her parents died within months of each other, Barnett decided to dig deeper for her passion.