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Video Interviews!
TVO recorded great interviews / discussions at our conference!
Watch them now, or share them at your next school council meeting!!!!
Presentations and notes from all sessions are being posted to our main website, as we receive them.
Interviews with:
Minister of Education
Annie Kidder
Charles Pascal (Early Learning)
Testing the Pros and the Cons (Panel Discussion)
Watch them now, or share them at your next school council meeting!!!!
Presentations and notes from all sessions are being posted to our main website, as we receive them.
Interviews with:
Minister of Education
Annie Kidder
Charles Pascal (Early Learning)
Testing the Pros and the Cons (Panel Discussion)
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October 4, 2009
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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jan@peopleforeducation.com
October 4, 2009
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
...Continue....
Join the conversation at Book Chat
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I would like to encourage individuals/groups to submit comments/questions in addition to just completing the rating scales in the online survey. I hope people aren't too overwhelmed reading the whole document, but it does help inform about history...
Good ideas here. Glad my question got you thinking, Anthony. And now with your related one:
"Do we work to live or do we live to work? Is it the responsibility of our education system to give our students the means to ‘live’ (i.e., the active sens...
Hi Gord,
Always nice to get your input on these matters. Yours sounds like a win-win scenario.
What about the requirement for the year end financial status to go to every parent in the school.
What do your schools' parent council records look like...
Better late than never!
Some days, when I'm feeling overwhelmed, I worry that we're too slow, or not organized enough. On the other hand, if we had a survey up on our website, we'd probably let people know right away - so maybe we're pretty organi...
Ministry has just notified PIC's that there is an online survey on ministry website for anyone to respond to by Dec 31 09
"In order to facilitate broad consultation, an on-line survey and the draft document “Parents in Partnership – A Parent Engag...
Kevin, here is what we did in past and what we do now. Before the date Jacqui indicated above we had our own bank account, our Treasurer kept all the accounting records and did up the financial reports. Our Principal plus either Chair or vice chai...
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Hi Shari,
Thanks for your comments.
It would be great to hear from some teachers as how they feel the transition should be handled versus how the teachers collective agreement dictates how to handle the transition.
I realize that we do not live in...
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...
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Critical judgment disappears altogether, for in no way can there ever be collective critical judgment....The individual can no longer judge for himself because he inescapably relates his thoughts to the entire complex of values and prejudices esta...
In order to truly measure something, there needs to be a concrete structure and a definitive description; therefore in order to answer the above question, we would need to define what is meant by success?
and, what is considered "successful"?
Good video - nice to see this sort of information linked all together
One thing that I would like to see is a linkage between report card measured performance and eqao measured performance.
I use the analogy of business. Annual reports are produ...
Paulo Freire spoke of education in this way: "Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice ...
EQAO testing is just one method of measurement. Some worry that this method is having the effect of narrowing the focus of what children learn in school to reading, writing and math.
We're looking for suggestions of other ways schools and the Min...
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