(Photo Credits: Don Wheler)

Documents from the Evening:

Information Handout (PDF)

Interview Matrix Template (Word)

Presentation Slides (PDF)

You are invited and encouraged to attend

Open Forum

Discussion Question: 
If we want the Northwest School Division to be the best division in the province,
what do we need to consider?

Facilitator:  Don Wheler

Thursday, May 3

5:30-7:30 p.m.

St. Walburg Parish Centre

Cold plate meal provided

Come…be heard

This is an excerpt from Cheryl Angst's blog on the current labour dispute in British Columbia. The full article can be read here.

I try to keep my personal politics separate from my writing career, but I am a teacher, I am a Canadian, I have a right to have my voice heard, and I cannot stand by in silence. Right now, my government is pushing legislation through to silence my voice as an advocate for public education. In a last-ditch effort to make my voice heard, I wrote a letter to my member of the legislative assembly in the hope it will be read aloud during the debate of Bill 22, and will be entered into public record.

Dear Mr. Farnworth,

I am a constituent and one of the more than 40,000 teachers whose voices will be silenced by the passing of Bill 22. While disappointed—devastated would be more accurate—I am not surprised.

In 2001, I lost my constitutional right to engage in political protest as a means of achieving a fair contract. In 2002, I lost the right to have a say in how many students would be placed in my classroom. In 2002, I also lost the right to argue for support for students with special needs. In 2005, I was told the actual number of students in my class was irrelevant so long as the district average for class size at my grade level was 30 or fewer.

Continued here.

The Northwest Teachers’ Association would like to get a snapshot of working conditions for teachers in our division. Please take a few minutes on or before January 15th to fill out the survey.

The survey is now closed. A summary of the responses will be available to members shortly is now available by logging in to this website with your NWTA username and password.

North West teacher Karen Lavallee rode to a fifth place finish recently at the International Indian Finals Rodeo held in Farmington, New Mexico on October 20-22. The teacher from Jubilee Elementary was the top Canadian and her cumulative score from four rounds was good for the fifth place finish against the top 16 riders from Canada and the United States.

Read the complete article here.