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I'm going to try and keep everyone updated at least once a week about all the goings on in education - and maybe with bits of gossip from the front. We go to a lot of meetings and there are lots of plans afoot in education - Bills that are going to mean big changes to the way boards work, potential changes to curr… Continue

I know there are people who write blogs every day – but I don’t know how they do it. There are so many things going on, that it’s hard to find the time to stop and write about them.

BUT - We’re continuing the Schools @ the Centre dialogues and they are so interesting. Yest… Continue

“Education is universally seen as one of the best ways out of poverty and as a sound investment in the future of individuals, families and communities, and thus in the social fabric of our society.”

So says the McMurtry/Curling report on the Roots of Youth Violence. The rep… Continue

So today I spent an hour writing up all my notes from the Schools at the Centre workshop I participated in at the People for Education conference on November 8. For now, we've decided to put them in a template where we'll keep track of five things:

• the components participants suggest should be present in a great 21st century school (with the acknowledgement that there could be many different models)
• how those great schools would be connected to their communities
• how the scho… Continue

We're finally really doing it!
After months of thinking, planning, getting advice, and lying awake at night wondering if it would work - we launched Schools at the Centre at our conference.
We'd tried out the process earlier - with a fabulous group of student trustees from across the province, and with two different parent groups - but Friday and Saturday were the first official dialogues. And everyone seemed excited, filled with ideas, and ready to "re-imagine" our schools.
On Fri… Continue