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Month: January 2017

Welcoming Ontario’s New Minister of Education – ET Spring 2017

​The Honourable Mitzie Hunter visits OPSBA leadersBy T.J. GoertzOPSBA's Board of Directors welcomed the Minister of Education, Mitzie Hunter, on September 30, 2016. Hunter, appointed to the cabinet position on June 13, 2016, after serving as associate minister for the...

Education Today Spring 2017 Highlights

DepartmentsBook ReviewLeading Collaborative Learning: Empowering ExcellenceBy Lyn Sharratt and Beate PlancheCorwin/ Ontario Principals’ Council, 2016As reviewer Suzanne Bowness notes, collaborating with other people is an intuitive and common way that people of all...

Student Voice – ET Spring 2017

​Should Students Be Proactive About Their Education?By Dasha MetropolitanskyThe "dab" is the latest strangely named dance craze sweeping the Internet. Dab enthusiasts describe their beloved dance move as deceptively simple: it involves simultaneously bowing the head...

Weblinks – ET Spring 2017

National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship http://nationalgeographic.org/education/programs/grosvenor-teacher-fellowship/ The National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship honours excellence in teaching geography from kindergarten to grade 12 and provides...

Across the Boards – ET Spring 2017

Literary Welcome to Upper Grand DSB's Syrian Students In September, Westwood Public School in Guelph hosted Welcome Neighbours, a literary event to greet newcomer Syrian families. The festivities were conceived and organized by Eric Walters, a local author known for...

President’s Message – ET Spring 2017

​Cultural Competence Honouring the truth, reconciling for the future One of the calls for action in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report was "to build cultural competence." I had the gift of participating in a training session on cultural competence...

Education Today: Fall, 2016

​This site features selected articles written by staff of the Ontario Public School Boards' Association, and are copyright OPSBA. Copyright on articles by freelance writers remains with the author. Departments: President's Message Book Review OPSBA Awards Across the...

Ontario Newsroom

More Support for Parents to Get Involved in Their Children's Learning, Feb. 23, 2017 Ontario Strengthening Negotiation Process with the Education Sector, Feb. 21, 2017 Ontario Providing Faster Access to Mental Health Services for Thousands of People, Feb. 8, 2017...

Public Education Symposium (PES) 2017

​ More than 290 trustees, student trustees, Directors of Education and senior school board administrators participated in the Ontario Public School Boards' Association's (OPSBA) successful PES 2017, jointly hosted with the Association des conseil scolaires des écoles...

Month: January 2017

Welcoming Ontario’s New Minister of Education – ET Spring 2017

​The Honourable Mitzie Hunter visits OPSBA leadersBy T.J. GoertzOPSBA's Board of Directors welcomed the Minister of Education, Mitzie Hunter, on September 30, 2016. Hunter, appointed to the cabinet position on June 13, 2016, after serving as associate minister for the...

Education Today Spring 2017 Highlights

DepartmentsBook ReviewLeading Collaborative Learning: Empowering ExcellenceBy Lyn Sharratt and Beate PlancheCorwin/ Ontario Principals’ Council, 2016As reviewer Suzanne Bowness notes, collaborating with other people is an intuitive and common way that people of all...

Student Voice – ET Spring 2017

​Should Students Be Proactive About Their Education?By Dasha MetropolitanskyThe "dab" is the latest strangely named dance craze sweeping the Internet. Dab enthusiasts describe their beloved dance move as deceptively simple: it involves simultaneously bowing the head...

Weblinks – ET Spring 2017

National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship http://nationalgeographic.org/education/programs/grosvenor-teacher-fellowship/ The National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship honours excellence in teaching geography from kindergarten to grade 12 and provides...

Across the Boards – ET Spring 2017

Literary Welcome to Upper Grand DSB's Syrian Students In September, Westwood Public School in Guelph hosted Welcome Neighbours, a literary event to greet newcomer Syrian families. The festivities were conceived and organized by Eric Walters, a local author known for...

President’s Message – ET Spring 2017

​Cultural Competence Honouring the truth, reconciling for the future One of the calls for action in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report was "to build cultural competence." I had the gift of participating in a training session on cultural competence...

Education Today: Fall, 2016

​This site features selected articles written by staff of the Ontario Public School Boards' Association, and are copyright OPSBA. Copyright on articles by freelance writers remains with the author. Departments: President's Message Book Review OPSBA Awards Across the...

Ontario Newsroom

More Support for Parents to Get Involved in Their Children's Learning, Feb. 23, 2017 Ontario Strengthening Negotiation Process with the Education Sector, Feb. 21, 2017 Ontario Providing Faster Access to Mental Health Services for Thousands of People, Feb. 8, 2017...

Public Education Symposium (PES) 2017

​ More than 290 trustees, student trustees, Directors of Education and senior school board administrators participated in the Ontario Public School Boards' Association's (OPSBA) successful PES 2017, jointly hosted with the Association des conseil scolaires des écoles...