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By deewin on October 7, 2011
Seismic upgrades to 48 of the city of Vancouver’s most vulnerable schools will cost $618 million, about 40 per cent of the amount budgeted for the entire province, according to a consultant’s report released Wednesday. The B.C. Ministry of Education, which largely financed the report, announced $1.5 billion over 15 years in 2005 to seismically […]
By deewin on October 4, 2011
The idea behind the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program is simple: the state pays top academic students to attend a public college, and in return they spend at least four years teaching in a public school. In the 20 years since the first fellows began teaching, the program has flourished. High school seniors selected for the program […]
By deewin on October 3, 2011
Roberta Longpré is an expert in the sleep habits of teenagers, and it is all because over the past decade many have showed up in her classroom each morning yawning and exhausted. “In my last 10 years of teaching in four different schools I have seen a lot of tired teenagers,” says the head of […]
By deewin on September 30, 2011
They’re addicted to Facebook and slaves to their smartphones — “digital natives” trying to navigate the post-secondary world. But as universities spend millions on e-learning tools to help cater to this tech-savvy generation, current students say they’re learning more in classes that don’t have all the technological bells and whistles. In fact, the first Canadian […]
By deewin on September 27, 2011
According to Michael Winerip, a good principal: has been a teacher feels at home in a cafeteria filled with 800 children eating rubbery scrambled eggs for breakfast has her own style protects her teachers from the nonsense sets her own high standards works with union leaders to carry out her educational agenda, and if she […]
By deewin on September 26, 2011
A teacher from Vancouver’s inner city has issued a heart-wrenching plea for help, saying she needs warm socks, shoes without holes, snacks for hungry tummies and — most of all — people to care for children living in poverty around Admiral Seymour elementary. “From where I sit every day, things are not okay,” Carrie Gelson […]
By epederso on September 23, 2011
To help direct your students to their course readings and specific web pages please refer to our help page on “Creating Persistent URLs”. Persistent URLs (PURLS) for web pages, course readings and e-books on their own do not allow the system to authenticate users. This means that your PURLS won’t work when accessed from off-campus. […]
By epederso on September 22, 2011
The Vancouver School Board could launch a year-round school pilot project at several city schools as early as 2012/13, according to superintendent Steve Cardwell. Last year, trustees asked the district’s calendar committee to examine if educational advantages exist in having what’s known as a balanced calendar, which involves lengthening the school year, shortening the summer […]
By deewin on September 22, 2011
Celebrate Science is a festival of B.C science writers for children and teens. This is a reminder that the event will be taking place on Saturday, 24 September 2011, from 8:30 am – 12:30 pm at the University of British Columbia’s Beaty Biodiversity Museum. This science extravaganza will appeal to teachers, teacher-librarians, student teachers, public librarians, child […]
By epederso on September 21, 2011
Daniel Loxton, an illustrator and writer, created a children’s book so outrageous, so outlandish, so controversial no American publisher dared touch it. It does not depict nudity. It does not contain curse words. It does not include blasphemy. The love scenes, such as they are, involve males with females. It does include a straightforward explanation […]