Posted in Best Practices, Ideas, Meetings and Events on 27 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Those of you who missed the 2008 People for Education “Making Connections” conference missed a great event. You may still enjoy reading the notes from presentations by speakers including:
Michael Tymchak, Dean of Education, University of Regina, chair of the schoolPLUS task force
Minister of Education Kathleen Wynne
Micheal Fullan, Special Advisor to the Premier and Education [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Community, HDSB, Meetings and Events, Parent Involvement on 4 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Subject: I.T Partnership members
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:19:32 -0500
From: Jacki Oxley
To: East Area SC 2007
The first meeting of this committee is April 3rd at 7pm at the board office in the Burlington Room. If you have an interest in being part of this regional board committee, please contact Bruce Smith directly.
I am setting up [...]
Posted in Best Practices, HDSB, Meetings and Events, Parent Involvement on 25 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi Parents,
At the Parent Involvement Committee Meeting this week you will have the opportunity to determine the Executive Committee, future information session, topics and the role of PIC in Halton. The PIC meeting will follow a presentation “What PARENTS Need to Know About Students and Technology!”
Thursday, February 28, 2008 / 6:30 p.m. at
Chris Hadfield [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Board Policies, HDSB, Ministry of Education (MoE), News Releases, Ontario, Students and Programs on 23 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the Halton District School Board we have aligned our assessment, evaluation and reporting practices with the provincial policy established in 1998. Like other Ontario school boards, we continue to work with principals and teachers to ensure this policy is implemented and that our classroom practice provides fair and equitable evaluation.
Students are evaluated on two [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Meetings and Events, Parenting on 18 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The thirteenth annual “For the Love of Literacy” conference will be held at Notre Dame Secondary School-Burlington, Ontario on Saturday, April 5, 2008 – 8:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. For more information or to register, go to http://fortheloveofliteracy.ca. For a conference schedule of events, workshop descriptions, directions to the conference and registration information, [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Community, Grants, Ministry of Education (MoE), News Releases, Parent Involvement, WOFOS, Ward 4, Wards 1&2, West Oakville on 7 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These are the Parents Reaching Out (PRO) grants approved by the Ministry for proposals made by school councils in Halton (HDSB). Congratulations!
School ID
School Name
Title of Project
Approved Amount ($)
66249
Brookdale Public School
A Year in the Life of Brookdale
[...]
Posted in Best Practices, Community, Parent Involvement, WOFOS, Ward 4, Wards 1&2, West Oakville on 20 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hey school council and home & school folks, I’d like to offer to collect “best practices” online here at WOFOS.ca for the benefit of our community. Things like school council bylaws and constitutions, easy fundraisers, forms that work, school practices around safety, bullying or school improvement. All that good stuff parents and community members are [...]
Posted in Best Practices, HDSB on 20 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tired of logging on to CHATT (http://chatt.hdsb.ca) for your school council email? You can forward it to your personal email account, if you wish. (Note, included with your HDSB correspondence will be any spam emails that sneak past the board’s filters. Give it some careful thought before setting up forwarding!)
To set up forwarding of your chair [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Meetings and Events, Parent Involvement, Parenting, WOFOS on 15 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
At Home Alone
“Are you and your child ready?”
Wednesday, January 23, 2008, 7:00-8:30 PM
École Pine Grove Public School
529 Fourth Line, Oakville
This program was developed to help families assess readiness and prepare their child to be home alone safely. This workshop will help families:
communicate together
understand the law about children being at home alone
find out if they [...]
Posted in Best Practices, News Releases, Ontario on 21 February 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ref: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2007/16/c9205.html
Ontario Principals’ Council (OPC)
Attention News Editors:
School Principals Establish Standards for Learning and Safety
TORONTO, Feb. 16 /CNW/ – Today, the Ontario Principals’ Council (OPC) released a set of standards to provide schools with direction around safe, sensible and consistent supervision practices.
Over the past several years, the way supervision schedules are developed and implemented has [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Community, Ministry of Education (MoE), Parent Involvement, WOFOS on 25 January 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These are the PRO grants approved by the Ministry for proposals made by parent groups in Halton (HDSB). Congratulations folks!
Halton DSB
School
No.
School Name
Name of Project
Final Approval ($)
414646
Oakwood PS
Welcome to Oakwood
3,000
442011
Pilgrim Wood PS
Seminars/Workshops for Parents
3,000
579742
WH Morden PS
Morden Matters
1,705
216267
Gladys Speers PS
Guest Speakers Series (Healthy Eating; Boys and Girls; Internet Safety; Homework [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Parent Involvement, WOFOS on 23 November 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a link that has information about the public/catholic elementary and secondary school systems for newcomers to Canada. It is available in 18 languages.
http://www.settlement.org/site/ED/GUIDE/
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