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Tanya Weiner's Discussions
Are School Boards required to consult with stakeholders?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Catherine Jun 9.
Elementary Reports - Are parents really getting a true picture of their child's progress?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Sheila Stewart May 16.
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Everyone is welcome: this group begins at our conference on Saturday. It's a support group for people who want to learn more about using technology to communicate. How to do stuff here, or to start an e-news listserv, or group & more!
Since these individuals are not "staff" at the school but considered staff of your School Board, they can participate on their child's school council but not in the capacity of chair or co/vice chair - according to the provincial legislation.
Now,…
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- I am a mom of 2 kids - 8 & 10 - from Ottawa. I am a member of, and past chair for our school council, a former executive member of the Ottawa Carleton Assembly of School Councils(OCASC), and currently the OCASC Webmaster.
I'm webmaster for my children's School and School Council. Check out a new website http://epttech.wordpress.com designed to help parents learn technology that they can use to reach their school communities.
Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 10:30am on December 11, 2009,
Gay Stephenson said…
- Tanya,
I'm going to get in touch soon - I've been exploring a bunch of webinar possibilities. Very promising! I want to introduce you to someone here. Take a peak at Aerin's discussion. You may even want to add links to some of these things on EPT. I love your Facebook event notice!
- At 1:23pm on December 4, 2008,
Lorna Costantini said… - Hi Tanya Love to hear what your are doing as the webmaster.Can you tell me how you are using the Internet to communicate with your community.
Lorna
- At 10:55am on November 28, 2008,
Elaine Morgan said… - No I didn't go this year but I do enjoy the conferences. I agree- we'll go together next year
- At 6:55pm on November 19, 2008,
Annie Kidder said… - Welcome Tanya. I'm the executive director of People for Education. I hope you like this new space we've created. We hope that it will be helpful, it will spark new thinking, and that it will allow us to work together to develop a new vision for schools in the 21st century.
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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)
Groups
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Ontario Needs a Coalitio…
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Tech communication help…
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21st Century Schools @ t…
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Less Testing: Education…
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Special Education
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172 schools are slated or recommended to close in Ontario between 2009 and 2012, and a further 163 reviews are in progress.
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172 schools are slated or recommended to close in Ontario between 2009 and 2012, and a further 163 reviews are in progress.
→ Read our 2009 School Closings Report.
→ Read the detailed inventory of schools closing in each board.
→ Read the press release.
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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…
Help us to design a broader vision for education in the 21st century!
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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