PS News
NCIL Serves 48 Public,
Separate Boards
The Northern
Centre for Instructional Leadership (NCIL) provides a
variety of staff development programs to a consortium
of public and separate boards of education in
mid-northern and northeastern Ontario.
Recent issues
of the NCIL News include information about
anti-violence workshops, the Kirkland Lake Project
and School Advisory Council training programs. NCIL
also publishes information about educational
leadership development programs and Ministry of
Education and Training initiatives.
For more information, contact
executive director Robert Sampson at (705) 497-1917;
fax: (705) 497-1873; e-mail: robert.sampson@sympatico.ca
York/Co-operative Model For
Teacher Growth
The York
University/Co-op Model of professional learning is a
partnership between York University and area school
boards. Three co-ops group school boards in different
areas:
- West
Central Development Co-operative (Dufferin,
Peel, Halton, Waterloo and Wellington)
- Durham-Simcoe-York
Professional Development
- Metro
Professional Development Co-operative
These groups
have combined resources to offer programs of
professional learning of particular interest to local
teachers.
Representatives
from each of the boards play a major role in
identifying the programs to be offered each year
based on needs assessments and board priorities. All
three of the co-ops include different types of
professional growth activities such as institutes,
teacher research and seminars.
For further information visit http://www.edu.yorku.ca/fielddev/ or call York Universitys Field
Development Office at (416) 736-5003.
Making the Case for Arts
Education
"If ever
there was a time to make a case for arts education,
this is it."
The Ontario
Arts Council is urging teachers and parents who know
how children benefit from exposure to the arts to
speak up and work for arts education in their
community.
And the Arts
Council is making it easy to get started by producing
a useful handbook, Making the Case for Arts
Education, that will equip advocates with persuasive
arguments and guide them through the basics of an
effective campaign.
The 46-page
handbook highlights recent research that supports the
need for arts education, outlines key messages and
provides sample presentation materials. It includes a
valuable resource guide and bibliography.
The guide
focuses on the extrinsic value of arts education
how education in the arts can help our schools
and society achieve broader education, economic and
social goals.
To order free
copies of Making the Case for Arts Education, which
is available in English and French, contact OAC
Communications, 151 Bloor Street West, 6th Floor,
Toronto ON M5S 1T6, or fax (416) 921-8763, or e-mail info@arts.on.ca
Sci-Tech Conference
Organizers
promise science teachers it will definitely be
"the most high-tech conference" they have
ever attended and that it will show technology
teachers where science will be taking their
curriculum in the future.
Science and
technology teachers associations are
co-sponsoring Sci-Tech 97 at Torontos
Regal Constellation Hotel November 12th to 15th to
demonstrate how cooperation between the two
disciplines works for students in our changing
educational environment.
For more information contact
Sci-Tech 97 c/o York University, Faculty of
Pure and Applied Science, 4700 Keele St., North York
ON M3J 1P3; e-mail: scitech@yorku.ca; web site http://:www.stao.org
Teachers for Excellence
Teachers for
Excellence (TFE) has expanded into Ontario. Founded
in 1989, this national organization brings together
parent groups, the business community and educators
dedicated to among other things
excellence in teaching, a demanding curriculum,
increased public school choice and directing more
education dollars into the classroom.
For more
information, contact director Bob Bonisteel at (613)
820-8826; fax (613) 820-8290; e-mail tfe@cyberus.ca ; web site http://www.tfe.cyberus.ca
Holistic Learning
Conference
The Holistic
Learning Conference: Breaking New Ground will bring
people from five continents to OISE/UT this fall to
focus on the holistic learning of children, youth and
adults as a process that engages the mind, body,
emotions and spirit. Subject areas will include:
- creating
learning communities learning
organizations and holistic approaches made
possible by media and technology
- the global
context of holism social awareness and
responsibility, and connections with nature
- explorations
of the sacred in daily life in the
arts, play, work.
There will be
over 50 workshops at the conference, which runs
October 24-26, 1997 at OISE/UT in Toronto.
For more information or to
register, contact: The Learning Consortium, tel:
(416) 923-6641 ext. 2078; fax: (416) 926-4727;
e-mail: hlc97@oise.utoronto.ca ; http://noisey.oise.utoronto. ca/holistic
PS Calendar
If you would
like to list your conference or event in
Professionally Speaking, please contact the College
library with the information: fax (416) 961-8822;
phone (416) 961-8800 ext. 679 or e-mail library@oct.ca
September 8 10
1997
Canadian Education Association Convention
Creating School Success, Combatting School Failure
Toronto
Contact: CEA (416) 924-7721; acea@hookup.net
September 11 12
Ontario
College of Teachers
Council Meeting
121 Bloor St. East, 6th Floor, Toronto
Contact: Charlie Morrison (416) 961-8800 ext. 628; cmorrison@oct.ca
October 2 3
Community
of Catholic School Boards
When Faith meets Pedagogy
Toronto
Contact: Dr. D. Mullin (905) 890-0708 ext. 4365; fax:
(905) 890-1002
October 2 4
Ontario
Catholic Family Life Educators Network
Realities 2
Niagara Falls
Contact: Ruth Stanley, c/o OECTA, 65 St. Clair Avenue
East, Toronto M4T 2Y8
October 16 18
Learning
Disabilities Association of Canada
11th National Conference: Anchor for Success
Saint John, New Brunswick
Contact: Kate McLellan (506) 849-3234; fax: (506)
847-6211; mclelka@nbed.nb.ca
October 16 19
French
Book Fair Salon du livre de Toronto
Toronto
Contact: (416) 498-6275; salon@ipgnet.com ; http://www.ipgnet.com/~salon/
October 22 24
Ontario
History and Social Science Teachers Association
Fall Conference
Canada 130
Toronto
Contact: Chuck Classen (519) 578-6160; ohassta@pathcom.com
October 23 25
Association
for Supervision and Curriculum Development
The 2nd ASCD Conference on Teaching and Learning
The Assessment-Instruction Connection
Orlando, Florida
Contact: (800) 933-2723 or (703) 549-9110 then press
2; http://www.ascd.org/index.html
October 24 26
OISE/UT
Holistic Learning: Breaking New Gound An
International Conference
Toronto
Contact: (416) 923-6641 ext. 2078; fax: (416)
926-4727; hlc97@oise.utoronto.ca; http://noisey.oise.
utoronto.ca/holistic/index.html
October 25 26
Ontario
Modern Language Teachers Association
Fall Symposium
North Bay
Contact: Lise Moore (905) 681-2143 (after 1 p.m.)
November 1 2
OISE/UT
Principals Certification Program Parts 1 and 2
Forest Hill C.I., 730 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto
Contact: Vashty Hawkins (416) 923-6641 ext. 2721; vhawkins@oise.utoronto.ca
This course will also run on November 1516,
December 67, January 45, February
1415 and March 78.
November 5 7
National
School Boards Associations Institute for the
Transfer of Technology to Education
11th Annual Technology + Learning Conference
Denver, Colorado
Contact: NSBA (800) 950-6722; fax-on-demand service:
(888) 267-5394 registration form is document #101;
http://www.nsba.org/itte/tlconf/homepage.html
November 7 9
Teaching
English as a Second Language in Canada Federation
1997 Conference
World Skills: Language and Living
Victoria, British Columbia
Contact: TESL Canada Federation (800) 393-9199; info@tesl.ca
November 9 10
Ontario
Co-operative Education Association
OCEA Fall Symposium
Navigating the Future Part II
Gravenhurst
Contact: Barb Green (705) 789-5594; fax: (705)
789-2269
http://www.muskoka.net/ocea
November 12 15
Science
Teachers Association of Ontario and the
Technical Educators of Ontario
Sci-Tech 97 Partners for Tomorrow
Toronto
Contact: SCI-TECH 97 c/o York University, Faculty of
Pure and Applied Science, 4700 Keele Street, North
York, Ontario, M3J 1P3
barkerk@yrbe.edu.on.ca or scitech@yorku.ca for registration
information
http://www.stao.org/confernc.htm
November 13 15
Ontario
School Counsellors Association
OSCA 97 Today! Tomorrow! Together!
Toronto
Contact: Ward Pipher (905) 820-1347 ext. 6; wpipher@switchtech.net
November 20 22
Ontario
Music Educators Association
Making Connections: Thriving and Surviving in Music
Education
Waterloo
Contact: OMEA Conference Registration (519) 656-2556;
fax: (519) 656-3394
November 21 22
Federation
of Women Teachers Associations of Ontario and
Women in Educational Administration Ontario
A World of Change: A World of Challenge
Toronto
Contact: Marilyn Dickson FWTAO (416) 964-1232
December 4 5
Ontario
Educational Research Council 1997 Annual Conference
Research for Action: Promoting Learning, Leadership,
and Professionalism
Toronto
Contact: OERC, Dr. Janice Leroux (613) 744-4345; fax:
(613) 744-7597
December 5 6
Northeast
Region ASCD Affiliate Conference
Assessment
Boston, Massachusetts
Contact: Mary Forte Hayes (617) 237-7881; fax (617)
237-7810; mascdex@tiac.net
December 11 12
Ontario
College of Teachers
Council Meeting
121 Bloor St. East, 6th Floor, Toronto
Contact: Charlie Morrison (416) 961-8800 ext. 628; cmorrison@oct.ca
February 20
Ontario
Council of Teachers of English, Communications and
Language Arts
Annual Conference
Navigating Change: Mastering Effective Strategies
Toronto
Contact: Alex Bostock (416) 393-5501; fax: (416)
393-5631
February 26 27
Ontario
College of Teachers
Council Meeting
121 Bloor St. East, 6th Floor, Toronto
Contact: Charlie Morrison (416) 961-8800 ext. 628; cmorrison@oct.ca