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“The Tricycle Solution: Teachable Moments for Parents & Preschoolers” film now available through Kanopy
The Tricycle Solution now available through Kanopy.
The normal events and emotions of a preschooler’s day — playing, creating, discovering, crying, fighting, and resolving disagreements — are seen in intimate detail, as the teacher, Effie Kuriloff, elucidates her provocative approach in The Tricycle Solution: Teachable Moments for Parents & Preschoolers, about the preschooler’s world and the daily experience of a cooperative preschool where parents are as much students as their children.
Educated with a Master’s in Early Childhood Education at Bank Street College of Education and a B.S. in Sociology from Rutgers University, Kuriloff’s almost 40-year tenure at Rocky Mountain School and her associated work as a professor at City College of San Francisco helped her develop a new approach to working with preschool-age children, focusing as much on parents as children. The Tricycle Solution is the only film documentation of Kuriloff’s work completed with her full involvement.
TeachBC: a new website and online database for sharing teaching resources
The British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) is excited to announce TeachBC, their new website and online database to share teaching resources. It is now available online at teachbc.bctf.ca.
TeachBC is an online resource of teaching materials, lessons, and research relevant to the K‒12 BC curriculum. Through the generosity of BC public school teachers, the website is public and open to everyone. Teachers and organizations can share their teaching resources or educational research by registering and uploading their materials or providing links. Anyone can browse and download the resources for classroom or professional use. Browsing is easy: users can search by subject, grade level, resource type, title, description, language, and more.
TeachBC uses a Creative Commons license; this means the materials are not copyrighted in the traditional sense. They will be freely available to use in classrooms, but not for profit. The database will be open to searching and downloading of resources, and will be a source of high-quality BC-based research.
Teachers and prospective teachers are encouraged to help us build this resource by uploading your teaching materials, lessons, and research. It is an easy process:
- Go to “Share your resources”
- Register with your name and email
- Start sharing!
This will grow to be a valuable resource for BC teachers, built by BC teachers. Please share this news with your colleagues and encourage them to share their teaching resources.
National Aboriginal Day celebrations
Sunday, June 21 is National Aboriginal Day. If you are looking for a list of some free, community events to attend in Vancouver and throughout BC, you might check out https://news.gov.bc.ca/stories/province-celebrates-first-nation-mtis-inuit-employees
Also, if you have not yet been to the three Vancouver museum exhibition locations of the c̓əsnaʔəm: The City Before the City, curated by Musqueam in collaboration with MOA and MOV, please consider a visit. This year’s Aboriginal (Un)History Month, on from now until mid-Aug in IKBLC’s second floor gallery, was curated by Musqueam and MOA as a short-term, 4th installation of the c̓əsnaʔəm: The City Before the City exhibition.
IBBY Canada’s Aubry Award for distinguished service to children’s literature presented to Judith Saltman (British Columbia) and Jacques Payette (Quebec)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 9, 2015: IBBY Canada, the Canadian national section of the International Board on Books for Young People, is pleased to announce that the Claude Aubry Award for distinguished service in the field of children’s literature will be presented to Judith Saltman and Jacques Payette. Both winners will receive their awards in conjunction with a special event for children’s literature in the coming year.
Judith Saltman is the recipient of the Claude Aubry Award for distinguished service in the field of children’s literature in English. Ms. Saltman is a Professor at the School of Library, Archival & Information Studies, and Chair of the Master of Arts in Children’s Literature Program at the University of British Columbia. With Gail Edwards, she authored Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children’s Illustrated Books and Publishing. Her research includes literature for children and young adults, publishing for children in Canada, and public library services for children and young adults.
Jacques Payette is the recipient of the Claude Aubry Award for distinguished service in the field of children’s literature in French. Mr. Payette is a pioneer in the publishing and the editing of children’s books and magazines in Quebec. Since 1968 he has been the owner of Éditions Heritage, which now lists over 2000 titles, and in 1997 founded the publishing house Dominque et compagnie. Toupi and Binou, Alice, Caillou, and Galette—characters well known to children today—are among the many creations he has published.
The Claude Aubry Award jury was comprised of Lisa Doucet (Woozles Bookstore, Halifax), Annabelle Foster (Saskatoon Youth Librarian), France Lapierre (retired MELS Quebec), and Susane Duchesne (Librairie Monet, Montreal Youth Literature Bookseller).
The Claude Aubry Award was established in 1981 in honour of the late author, translator, and director of the Ottawa Public Library. IBBY Canada presents two Aubry Awards biennially, from nominations of individuals who have made a significant contribution to Canadian children’s literature. Eligible nominees include authors, publishers, illustrators, translators, designers, editors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers. Previous recipients include Patsy Aldana, Marie-Louise Gay, Andrea Deakin, Chantal Vaillancourt, Dave Jenkinson, Charlotte Guérette, Peter Carver, Catherine Mitchell, Bertrand Gauthier, Michael Solomon, Ron Jobe, Virginia Davis, Judy Sarick, May Cutler and Sheila Egoff.
IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People (www.ibby.org), founded in 1953, represents an international network of people committed to bringing books and children together. IBBY Canada, a volunteer organization formed in 1980 to promote Canadian children’s literature, is one of over 70 IBBY national sections worldwide, and. IBBY Canada members include authors, illustrators, librarians, booksellers, educators, and publishers. For more information about IBBY and the Claude Aubry Award, please visit www.ibby-canada.
Copyright and Ethics in Scholarly Publishing, August 5, 2015
Wednesday, August 5th, 2015 at 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Koerner 216
Have questions about plagiarism and academic integrity? What about “self-plagiarism” and “gift
authorship”? This workshop will cover what you need to know to get your work out there ethically while
preserving your own rights to it.
For more information and to register, please visit: