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I think it would be ideal to have the replacement teacher present to ease the transition as you described, but in my experience it hasn' t happened. We have 3 teachers (out of 7) on Maternity leave this year. One teacher's leave was sudden and the o…
Would it be school council funds that would be used? I believe if it was a school council funded project, the principal is a non-voting member of school council so his vote wouldn't have mattered.
Before the mandate, there was no previous regional committee here, for RCDSB. I believe an Assembly of School Council Chairs had been attempted in the past with little success.
Voting isn't regulated - general consensus is taken from parent members…
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- Beachburg
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- ON
- Is there anything else you'd like to tell us about yourself?
- I have 3 children, all in school this year - my youngest Sara in Junior Kindergarten, then Katie in Senior Kindergarten and my oldest Gregory in Grade 2. We are fortunate to have a very small close knit school and community with some of the best teachers anyone could ask for.
I'm an active parent on our School Council, as well as a member of our regional PIC.
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- At 8:50pm on November 14, 2008,
Penny said…
- On the off chance are you related to Phil Kosowan in Camrose -- he is a rxist I know there -- was wondering if he was any relation when I was at the wedding.
- At 10:33am on November 14, 2008,
- attended and helped cook for that one -- our goldfish even lived for a month or more.. What a big wedding -- but typical for Kueflers. I lived with Ryan's Aunt for 4 years at university -- it is bcs of her that I ended up down here -- she invited a guy from Galahad to a party at our house and well 14 years and 3 kids later here I still am!
- At 10:17am on November 14, 2008,
- Well I probably saw you there then... there were 3 weddings in June and I either attended them or was helping cook for them!!
- At 10:46pm on November 13, 2008,
- Well I have to say Shari that that it is amazing that you know where Galahad is and have actually visited!! What brought you to our humble little hamlet?
Penny
- At 7:54am on November 12, 2008,
Jan Sugerman said… - Hi Shari,
What a lovely photo!...I'm just catching up on all the people who are signing up. Isn't it wonderful to live in such a community. My children (a girl and a boy)are a bit older now but when they were in elementary school it was through the community at that school that I really met my neighbours and developed lifelong friendships. We had an active school and wonderful teachers. It convinced me of the deep value that schools have for community.
Jan
- At 10:08pm on November 11, 2008,
Lorna Costantini said… - Hello Shari Thanks for joining the Parents as Partners group. Looking forward to hearing your ideas.
- At 5:58pm on November 11, 2008,
josee dostie said… - Hey....hope your way home was ok. It was nice chatting with you at the conference. What was your favorite part of the conference?
Have a great evening....talk to you soon.
Josée
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Testing the Pros and the Cons (Panel Discussion)
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Parents often have questions about special education. Here's a place where we can ask questions, share ideas and information and help one another...
Our school is small, at 281 elementary students. It is Early French Immersion, which is not uncommon in Ottawa. I believe there are enough elementary-aged children within walking distance to fill the school twice. However, with the public/catholic s…
Briony before rushing to ideas I always like to take a deep breath and outline the goal and then priority for Parent Engagement/Involvement. Without that you will just try different things but perhaps achieve few results. Our PIC believes in giving…
Hi Briony,
There are also some great examples of what other people have done in our Parent Engagement Manual.
Hopefully you'll get lots of responses from parents here in our online community who have tried a bunch of different things.
It's also i…
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Hi Briony,
It is always hard to know how to start from zero when it comes to parent involvement. When I went to my first high school council meeting, the staff outnumbered the parents! There were only two of us, and the other mum showed up because h…
Thank you for sharing these photos and this project with us. It is wonderful to see those beautiful children learning together in a community school. Congratulations to the organizers of this initiative. To be able to offer this opportunity to 300 s…
I am the PIAC rep for Ward 10 of the TDSB.
PIAC is trying to offer more concentrated and targeted School council and parent engagement support this year and to that end we sent out a questionnaire asking schools what the state of things are at prese…
Beth: About the article in the Globe... unfortunately links to that newspaper only work for about 7 days, and then you must pay for the articles :( It's different from the Star which allows you to view them for free as long as you have the link addr…
Great article, Deborah (Playing the Game). I skimmed through and will read it again. Thanks! Looks like some good insight and food for thought from down under......!
Your link worked - yay Deb! It looks really good - I will read it this weekend :)
The next newsletter writing deadline is March 1st, which seems to work well with your research deadlines. All the best with your next steps in January!
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