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Category Archives: Community Engagement
Healthy Kids! Healthy Schools! Healthy Communities!
[ November 3, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Trustee Michael Janz and I invite you to a community meeting related to the Board’s fourth priority (health and wellbeing of students and staff).
Erin Wright from APPLE Schools and Bev Esslinger from SHAPE (Safe Healthy Active People Everywhere) are our special guest speakers, and we look forward to their thoughts on promoting health and wellness for our [...]
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INSIGHTS: Policy Review, Budget, Foundation News….
THANK YOU to all those who attended “You’re Invited to Shape the Future!” (aka Education Act) meeting on Wednesday night. It was good for Trustee Janz and me to listen to the table conversations around student, parent and board responsibilities as well as the Q&A with The Honourable Dave Hancock, Minister of Education. Trustee Janz [...]
You’re Invited to Shape the Future
[ September 14, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Please join Trustee Michael Janz and me as we discuss the new Education Act on September 14, 7 – 9 pm, at Harry Ainlay High School. The Honourable Dave Hancock will be our special guest. Will the new Act allow “us” (the village it takes to raise a child) to transform our education system? What will the [...]
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INSIGHTS NEEDED, including What attracts you to a school?
Hello from the National School Boards Conference!
It is great to be here in San Francisco learning and gathering ideas about how to improve board policymaking, how boards can support the all-important work on student achievement, how to develop a positive and welcoming school climate, etc. On Friday I joined the Council of Urban Education Boards (CUBE) for [...]
Insights: VISION, MISSION, PRIORITIES and more!
“All students will learn to their full potential and develop the ability, passion, and imagination to pursue their dreams and contribute to their community.”
This is the proposed Vision, which the District Priorities Committee will be bringing to the full Board for approval next Tuesday night at Public Board. What do you think?
The full wording [...]
Setting the Vision, Mission, Beliefs & Priorities for EPSB is Powerful Work
The Board is in the midst of working on its Vision, Mission, Beliefs and Priorities statement. This is exciting work! And powerful work. Why? Because once approved by the Board in early March, this statement will guide the work of the Superintendent, schools, and central departments over, at least, the next three years. All district [...]
Let’s Talk…the New Education Act!
On January 17, 2011, 18 people gathered at DS MacKenzie Junior High in Edmonton, Alberta to learn more about the new Education Act, which the Minister of Education, The Honourable Dave Hancock, is expected to introduce into the Legislative Assembly in Winter/Spring 2011. The goal of the new legislation is to provide the legal framework [...]
Let’s Talk…. The Board’s Proposed Vision, Mission, Values, Areas of Strategic Emphasis, and 2011-14 Priorities for Edmonton Public Schools
[ February 1, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]
Please join me to take a look at the Board’s Proposed Directions and Priorities for Edmonton Public Schools for the foreseeable @ Johnny Bright School, 1331 Rutherford Road SW (just west of 111 Avenue and south of Ellerslie). All ages and stages are welcome. Please RSVP by Wednesday, January 26 to Catherine.Ripley@epsb.ca or 780-887-1002.
Why should [...]
Let’s Talk… the new Education Act!
[ January 17, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Please come out and join the conversation about the new Education Act legislation expected to be introduced in the Winter Session of the legislature @ DS Mackenzie Junior High Library (40 Ave and 106 Street). Please RSVP by Wednesday, January 12 to Catherine.Ripley@epsb.ca or 780-887-1002.
In the Winter 2011 session, it is expected that The [...]
Results Review @ George P. Nicholson
[ May 19, 2012; 7:09 am; November 17, 2010; 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm. ] Please join Trustee MacKenzie and me as we review
Brookside, Steinhauer, Sweet Grass, Vernon Barford, Westbrook Schools.
Everyone is welcome! See you there!
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