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BCTF promises Bell-to-bell work this week
Union won’t discuss what happens after break By Janet Steffenhagen with Jonathan Fowlie, Vancouver Sun March 8, 2012 5:00 AM Public school teachers were expected to end their strike and return to their classrooms today, where they will continue the limited job action they began in September and consider future protests against a government bill now […]
Facts about the teachers’ contract dispute
Facts about the contract feud between the B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) and the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA), backed by the Liberal government: Salary proposal: The BCTF wants a 15-per-cent wage hike over three years; the BCPSEA and government say teachers, like other provincial government employees, are bound by the net-zero mandate, which means […]
Most public schools closed Monday due to teacher strike
Teachers were planning to distribute leaflets outside B.C. public schools Monday morning at the start of what is likely to be a three-day strike. Because picketing is not legally permitted in this job action, schools were expected to remain open, with principals, vice-principals and support staff on the job. But almost all districts have cancelled […]
Libraries of the Future!
Ebooks are driving momentous changes. In Vancouver, librarians are inviting the public to help reinvent their mission. There are certain things, good and bad, that ebooks can’t offer. Old bookmarks, penciled annotations and chocolate smudges between the pages… the tactile human touches that make die-hard proponents of print swear they’ll never make the switch. But […]
B.C. teachers will strike Monday, BCTF says
VANCOUVER – B.C.’s teachers will strike Monday, B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Susan Lambert says. Lambert said Thursday morning the province’s 41,000 teachers “will withdraw their services” for three days, beginning Monday. “We have a legal right strike for three days,” Lambert told reporters gathered at BCTF offices in Vancouver. “That’s our intention.” If the provincial […]
Government Preparing Legislation to End Labour Dispute with Teachers
Education Minister George Abbott has asked his staff to work through the weekend to prepare back-to-work legislation aimed at ending a labour dispute with B.C. teachers. Abbott made the announcement Thursday after a senior official in the Labour Ministry concluded a negotiated deal was “very unlikely.” “I am satisfied now that for the days, weeks […]
BCTF decries ‘second decade of cuts in BC schools’
The BC Teachers’ Federation is calling the latest budget freeze on education spending the beginning of a ‘second decade of cuts’ to B.C. schools. Finance Minister Kevin Falcon announced education spending would remain at $4.7 billion per year until the 2014/15 school year, with an additional $165 million doled out during that period for the Learning Improvement […]
TD National Reading Summit III: Vancouver, B.C. May 2nd to 5th, 2012
Creating a National Reading Strategy for Canada: About the National Reading Campaign The National Reading Campaign is about creating a reading strategy for Canada. It is about engaging Canadians in exploring what a Canadian reading plan would look like, and what we would expect the key outcomes to be. In short, it is a campaign […]
This Just In: New Book at Education Library
Silent Moments in Education: An Autoethnography of Learning, Teaching, and Learning to Teach by Colette A. Granger Colette A. Granger’s highly original book considers moments in several areas of education in which silence may serve as both a response to difficulty and a means of working through it. The author, a teacher educator, presents narratives and […]