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Hockey teams - info needed, can you help?
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Michelle, thanks for your reply! I'll pass this on to the person that asked about this. Tony
Hi, our school Annunciation Catholic in North York has a hockey team, I know I can tell you (as CSAC chair) that we voted last night to pay for 1/2 of the Invitational fee (1/2 being $350), last year the hockey players paid the other 1/2 at approx...
Ross, thanks for your reply. It does seem to be quite an effort...tho' an attractive concept. I'm hoping (naively) most of the admin work can be done by clients themselves online. We'll see. Thanks again. T
We have run a similar program for three years now with fundscript . They seem quite similar.
We have seen two issues:
1) you must actively manage the program - cards have to be ordered and delivered weekly (or your choice) - it is labour intensi...
What experience have people had with the Shop and Support fundraising program?
We signed up a couple years ago but didn't really get it off the ground.
I understand, though, that there have been some customer service issues recently...but that t...
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Schools as community centres: opening doors
Jacqui,
What a fabulous report. I remember when JR Saul spoke two years ago about schools being centres for communities I thought it was right on... I'm glad you guys are highlighting this idea of using schools more...of opening doors for many purposes. Excellent!
Tony
What a fabulous report. I remember when JR Saul spoke two years ago about schools being centres for communities I thought it was right on... I'm glad you guys are highlighting this idea of using schools more...of opening doors for many purposes. Excellent!
Tony
Posted on January 14, 2009 at 5:36pm — 2 Comments
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- At 2:43pm on October 16, 2009,
Gay Stephenson said…
- Hi Tony, I just featured your discussion question about hockey. I added a couple more words to the title to give people a better idea of what you are asking. Hope this is okay with you. Otherwise please feel free to go back and change it as you like - I won't be the least bit offended :) I just thought you might get more responses if people knew a wee bit more.
- At 4:21pm on January 16, 2009,
Jacqui Strachan said… - Hi Tony, and welcome to the community. Thanks so much for your kind comment about yesterday's report. You made our day! I'm glad you've joined the online group, as it seems this is becoming my new favourite way of communicating. :-)
Jacqui
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This time the book is a podcast. When you’re tired or busy with another task, well the podcast can be just the thing. Recently I heard Learning, Doing, Being: A New Science of Education. If you were intrigued by Alanna Mitchell’s recent Atkinson Series: Brainstorm about the developments of brain science and the impact on education, then this podcast may interest you.
From Speaking of Faith produced by American Public Media, host Krista Tippett talks with writers, artists, scientists, thinkers and theologians about ” belief, meaning, ethics and ideas” . Last week she interviewed neuroscientist (and dancer) Adele Diamond who now teaches at UBC .
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"Call me a radical if you want, but were it up to me I would blow up our entire educational system and start over with something far more humane that what we - and that inclu...
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Full of good sense and practicality!! Thank you for expressing so succinctly what I was thinking . I really think most parents are doing what they want/can and most know about the existence of their school councils, less so probably are aware of t...
Hi again Carolyn,
Are you employed at the school where you are also a parent, or elsewhere in the board? The voting rights would be different depending on that.
OK PLEASE add "fundraising" to my initial comments - as in: If a school council is investing more than 10% of its time, energy, volunteers on fundraising - then they are NOT properly focused. School Councils are not supposed to fundraise - they ar...
WOW! Kudos to Gord for starting this discussion - it has gone in many different directions - but all are valuable.
The "vision": ideally PICS would operate similarly to School Councils operating "properly" under their real mandate, which is advis...
Hi Sheila,
Thanks for acknowledging my post. I hear what you are saying about commmunication between PIC's and school councils and how non-effective it ultimately can be if council members are too busy fundraising, or time is not given to address...
I've been working with high school students - mostly in math - for several years in Toronto. I have noticed a trend in how, and the extent to which, teachers and students use their textbooks. If you have thought at all about this, are interested i...
Nice to see your participation and thoughts here, Carolyn! Your perspective and questions are good, and I recognize that you are new to this “front” in Ontario. Good to hear your questions too, Kevin. And thanks, Jacqui.
I guess I am trying to so...
Hi Jacqui, Carolyn, Mike, and everyone else.
Thanks so much for your input and comments.
I value all the the various interests that we all have in our children's education.
As parents, we all strive to afford a better life for our children then th...
Mike, I have to say that you expressed many of my concerns and questions about the role and responsibilities of school council. I hear you and your frustration about the topics of discussion, but if council doesn't discuss the mundane, day to day,...
Thank you Mike for adding a balanced and practical voice to the discsussion of just what constitutes "involvement". How much do parents really want to do and what is realistic to expect from the front-lines when there is so much else parents need ...
Thanks, Jacqui, for explaining the role of PIC at the Board level. I am a PIC member (part of Gord's committee actually) and also on school council at my children's school. That being said, I have to admit that I am not as well-versed in the roles...
Hi Kevin,
I know Gord is away this week, but I can help answer some of your questions, and hopefully he can jump in where I leave holes:
1) PIC mandates will vary from board to board - the ministry recommended the establishment of PICs, but has ...
Hi Eva,
It has only recently come to my attention that the Toronto board has developed a different method for allocating the school council funding. I'm not sure how long they have been doing it this way, but I have sent an email to the Parent an...
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I recommend Uzma Shakir, and I think if I search the office I can find her contact information (or Jacqui may have it!). I have heard her speak on these topics and she is amazing. The only thing I'm not sure of is how often she is avai...
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