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SEAC Members Meetup at P4E

Would any SEAC members like to meet members from other jurisdictions to discuss issues in your district?

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Gay Stephenson Comment by Gay Stephenson on October 25, 2009 at 7:54pm
I'm joining to give you moral support Beth! Although I'm not personally a SEAC member, I think it's a great idea for SEAC members to "meet-up" at the conference on Nov. 7th. I'm just thinking of how we could pass the word around... I'm not sure if our lists are clever enough to identify SEAC members, but ideally I would send this invitation out to them. If you have email addresses for other members in other boards, you can invite them by clicking on "Invite More" on this page and typing in their email address, or choosing them from your address book. Let me know if you have other ideas that we could help with!
Tina Blanchette Comment by Tina Blanchette on November 8, 2009 at 4:51pm
I'm a member of the Waterloo Region District School Board SEAC. Unfortunatley I'm not attending the P4E conference, so I can't meet you personally. I am however interested in sharing information, ideas and best practices.

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Not so long ago I chanced upon a tv interview with Sarah Vowell. She was talking about her new book The Wordy Shipmates and she was funny and intriguing enough that I picked up the book. Not only has she written a number of books, she is also the voice of Violet in the animated film The Incredibles and contributes regularly to the This American Life on Chicago Public Radio
Although I was reading for amusement, information and stories, once again I bumped into education!
The Wordy Shipmates is about the Puritans in the 17 century and Sarah Vowell's childhood in the 20th century and life now in the 21st. The book is a delightful flow of ideas and customs that weave through the narrative of American life. Education was there at the beginning
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