December 7, 2011 – 10:22 pm | No Comment

Last week, CSBA presented three of its provincial associations’ initiatives in the area of aboriginal education at the CMEC Educators’ Forum on Aboriginal Education. Local initiatives are having a powerful impact on student engagement, community …

December 6, 2011 – 10:44 pm | No Comment

Lakehead District School Board is located in the Thunder Bay area of Ontario. With a student enrollment of just over 13,000, the board consists of twenty-five elementary, four secondary and one adult education centre. Lakehead District is …

November 29, 2011 – 9:07 pm | No Comment

This post, written by Melanie Jackson of the British Columbia School Trustees’ Association, is an excerpt from “The Way Forward is the Way Back: Saving the Haida Language.”

When Haida Gwaii Trustee Wayne Wilson was a …

November 11, 2011 – 8:34 am | No Comment

First held throughout the Commonwealth in 1919, Remembrance Day commemorates the armistice to end the First World War, which came into effect at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918.
For Canadian students, an important resource is …

November 6, 2011 – 9:15 pm | No Comment

Media Literacy Week takes place this year from November 7-11 across Canada.
Canada’s youth are exposed to media content on a daily basis, and are continually asked to understand the “nature, techniques and impacts of …

October 3, 2011 – 10:36 pm | No Comment

Last week, the government tabled Bill C-11, a re-introduction of Bill C-32 that was originally introduced in June 2010.
See the CSBA copyright page for CSBA’s 2010 submission to Canadian Parliament.
Although there are many provisions in the Copyright …

September 8, 2011 – 6:30 pm | No Comment

Its International Literacy Day-established by UNESCO in 1965, this day calls attention to the need to eradicate illiteracy across the globe. The theme of International Literacy Day 2011 is “Literacy for Peace.”
Canada is celebrating with …

July 20, 2011 – 6:18 pm | One Comment

As of July 1st, in accordance with the CSBA Constitution and by-laws, there has been a change in leadership and the composition of the Board of Directors for the Canadian School Boards Association:

 
Ruth Ann Furgala …

July 20, 2011 – 2:29 pm | No Comment

CSBA Congress 2011 was hosted by the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association in Ottawa from July 7-9th. To access many of the presentations, click here.
We will be updating our Congress page in the weeks to come …

July 9, 2011 – 9:13 am | No Comment

We’re blogging from the CSBA Congress 2011 in Ottawa.
Yesterday was an extraordinary day of professional development. A few quotes from our plenaries yesterday:
 

“Leadership is action, not position.”
“Schools are places of hope and we need to communicate …