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Some teachers from Toronto are organizing this Rally and we wanted to invite all members of Fix Our Schools to attend. This is one way to demonstrate to the Ford government that safe, healthy, well-maintained schools are a priority! Here are the details: WHAT: Calling all education workers, parents, labour affiliates, community partners and allies […]
Mental health advocate Anne O’Riordan has been awarded the 2019 Family Advocacy Award – the highest award given by Family and Children’s Services or Frontenac, Lennox and Addington. The award, held every year to celebrate Family Day, recognizes an individual, group or organization for their contribution to making the lives of families in KFL&A better. […]
TORONTO, Feb. 20, 2019 /CNW/ – Canada’s largest and longest-running health and safety conference and trade show, Partners in Prevention 2019, takes place on April 30 and May 1, 2019 in Toronto. This year’s edition, with the theme What’s Your Story?, will highlight the ‘safety superhero’ who advocates for health and safety in the workplace. […]
TORONTO – Ontario’s education minister is defending the $140,000 salary for a failed Tory candidate to lead a standardized testing organization – a job that was previously a part-time appointment. Cameron Montgomery was announced recently as the new full-time chair of the board of directors of the Education Quality and Accountability Office, a position that […]
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) released a new report today that provides a snapshot of what it is like for Early Childhood Educators (ECE) to work in the Early Learning and Child Care sector in Nova Scotia. Understanding which factors influence their recruitment and retention is critical because we know high turnover […]
Today, the Honourable Lisa Thompson, Minister of Education, issued the following statement: “The Ministry of Education invited teachers’ federations, education worker unions and trustees’ associations to meet to begin discussing ways to improve teacher hiring practices, while also seeking feedback on class sizes in kindergarten to Grade 12. We are modernizing the way we fund […]
With thousands of children in Newfoundland and Labrador missing class in “staggering” amounts each year, the province’s Office of the Child and Youth Advocate has released a new report examining the issue, one that calls for collective action from government departments, schools and communities. Chronic Absenteeism: When Children Disappear, released Thursday, shines a spotlight on […]
The St. Clair Catholic District School Board is undertaking a strategic plan to help create the “graduate of the future” that will involve a lot of community consultation. The board is using the online tool Thoughtexchange to enable students, staff, parents and the community-at-large to give their thoughts and feedback. The information gathered will be […]
Typically, when it comes to most children and youth textbooks on mental health, they too heavily revolve around diagnostic criteria, say a group of Alberta educators. That gap drove Patricia Kostouros, Michelle Briegel and Brenda Thompson to take a different approach with two books launched on Nov. 22 at Mount Royal University. Kostouros and Briegel […]
At the age of 15, Laurissa Rose Degraw attempted to take her own life for the first time. Over the next five years, she tried four more times. “She made it very clear that this is how her life would end,” says her mother, Aimee Huitema. “She said it to me. She said it to […]