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Hello Everyone,
It would be out of character and presumptive for me to make quotes from "Governance In Public Boards 101". However, with candor and at the risk of being blunt as owner of an international computer business, I travel around the wor...
Hello Ali,
Just saw your request, allow me to suggest you go to the Ministry of Education Website and down load the following document:
Ontario Association of School Business Officials Finance Committee, "Guidelines For School Generated Funds" F...
Hello Catherine,
Firstly, allow me to acknowledge and agree fully with the context of your comments with respect to "Parent Engagement, Involvement, and or Partinership" whatever name tag one wishes to attach to it- as you have quite readily poin...
Not sure how far you wish to delve into this subject matter but, respectfully allow one to submit if transparency and accountability is what you are looking for in the Education System at the Board/School level you are in for a surprise. This stat...
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- At 5:06pm on January 16, 2009,
Jacqui Strachan said… - Welcome to our online community. I am the parent inclusion coordinator here at People for Education, and I am glad to see that our membership just keeps growing! Do you have a particular topic in education that you are interested in or something that you are involved in? I hope you will find the resources and the connections you make here useful, and please feel free to post a note on my wall or send a message if you have any questions.
Jacqui
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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
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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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November 29, 2009
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 .
She talks about Executive Functions. It turns out that play and especially dramatic play is key to the development of self –regulation.
“Her work is scientifically illustrating the educational power of things like play, sports, music, memorization and reflection” The more parts of an individual that get involved, the more the brain changes. The research is “turning modernity on its head”
Here is a short slide show clip....
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jan@peopleforeducation.com
November 29, 2009
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 .
She talks about Executive Functions. It turns out that play and especially dramatic play is key to the development of self –regulation.
“Her work is scientifically illustrating the educational power of things like play, sports, music, memorization and reflection” The more parts of an individual that get involved, the more the brain changes. The research is “turning modernity on its head”
Here is a short slide show clip....
Join the conversation at Book Chat
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CBC TV's new show "Connect with Mark Kelley" is looking for a family who wants to try living a greener lifestyle for one week. We want to hear about what is dead simple to do, dumb or downright not going to happen, and we'll have an eco expert giv...
The Egerton Ryerson award honours a person who has made an outstanding contribution to public education - either through there work inside the system, or through their advocacy.
Watch as this year's honouree, William G. Davis, receives the award ...
Here are a couple of interesting and related comments from US bloggers.
"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...
Actually - all school councils are supposed to include both (at least) one teaching and one non-teaching staff member (and a student rep at the seconday level, and at the discretion of the Principal at the elementary level). The only person who do...
I am employed in a couple of the schools, including where my kids go to school and where I am on council. That, I guess, is where the conflict of interest arises. I cannot see what kind of conflict of interest would prevent me from voting on spend...
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...
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