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Vision is a
FREE e-newsletter of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation.
It is open to teacher members and non-members alike.
This newsletter will come out regularly during the
school year and provide quick reading on issues related
to teaching and education across Canada. The information
herein does not necessarily reflect the views of CTF. To
submit news, contact CTF Communications at:
communications@ctf-fce.ca. |
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December 2009
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Season’s Greetings from the
Canadian Teachers’ Federation |
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 As
we head into the holiday season, I’d like to take this
opportunity to wish you all a very restful and joyous
season with your family and friends. I know that you
have all, most likely, had a very busy fall, and with
only two weeks left before we break for Christmas, there
is still, no doubt, much to be done!
The fall has been very busy and exciting at the Canadian
Teachers’ Federation. As CTF is very well respected on
the national and international front, we are constantly
sought out by organizations with which to partner or
network. Partnerships and joint initiatives have opened
doors for CTF like never before.
In fact, CTF was honoured to be the only organization to
be granted a private audience with the
Dalai Lama in Montreal. After his presentation to over
15,000 people at the Bell Centre in early October, our
group was brought backstage to meet His Holiness. I had
the privilege of introducing him to Nova Scotia teacher,
Heather MacIsaac, designer of the 2009 World Teachers
Day (WTD) poster, as well as to the three winners of our
student essay contest on peace, Daniel Jewson, Emily
Liston both from Ontario, and Migguel Huard of Alberta.
There, he was presented with a framed copy of the WTD
poster, as well as a bound copy of the essays. The
Dalai Lama’s message of compassion and peace coincided
with our World Teachers’ Day theme of Peace. Live it.
Teach it. It was especially fitting that the
presentation took place just before the UNESCO acclaimed
date of October 5, World Teachers’ Day.
To read the rest of the Mary-Lou's message please
click here
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Mary-Lou Donnelly
President of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation
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Presidential Encounters |
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CTF President Mary-Lou Donnelly and
Prime Minister Stephen Harper at
the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence on
Parliament Hill on Oct. 5. For more photos
click here.
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The Leader of the Opposition Michael Ignatieff
hosted a reception for the CTF Board of Directors in the
West Block of Parliament Hill during their November
meeting. Members of Parliament Mike Savage and
Justin Trudeau surprised the Board by making an
appearance as well.
Click here for more
pictures. |
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Board of Directors Gather in
Nation's Capital |
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The CTF Board of Directors’ meeting was a busy meeting
with presentations by Canada’s Chief Medical Officer David
Butler-Jones, Michael Howlett and Louise Bradley, Canadian Mental Health Commission of
Canada, and Mary Gordon, Roots of Empathy.
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New Web Site is
Full of
Opportunities |
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CTF launched its new Web site early September and it continues to grow
and improve to serve our Member organizations. The feature we are most proud of
is the
Virtual Research Centre (VRC) which is
only available to Member
organizations. There you will find a one-stop shop for daily
streaming news on education, CTF survey results and much more.
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Staff
Officers Meeting : Framing the Message |
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The annual
Member organization's Staff Officers Meeting
occurred in
Ottawa, Nov. 18 to 20, and focused on how to frame
messages. Once again, these meetings were a hub for
staff networking and an opportunity to learn from each
other. The meeting was launched with a presentation
by award-winning journalist
and historian Gwynne Dyer, who demonstrated the
importance of framing the message on key issues that
have far-reaching political impact and significant
public policy implications. The
next morning, federal Member of Parliament Justin
Trudeau spoke about the importance of teachers to teaching students to become life-long learners, critical
thinkers and active engaged citizens. Visit our
Flickr page.
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Empowering Canadian Youth for
the Digital World |
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Media
Awareness Network (MNet) and the Canadian Teachers'
Federation (CTF) launched Canada’s 4th
annual Media Literacy Week: Empowering Canadian Youth for
the Digital World, streaming live on the
Web
on Nov. 2, 2009. Over 100 students
participating in the Encounters with
Canada program
asked questions to the panel of media professionals, which
included Andrew Cohen,
award-winning journalist, best-selling author and President
of the Historica-Dominion Institute, Scott Rubin,
head of policy communications at YouTube, Roger
Dubois, videojournalist for CBC.ca, and
Althia Raj, National Bureau reporter for Sun Media.
To view the video of the launch
here and for more information click
here.
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CTF is Dreaming Big with a
New
Teaching Resource |
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 (left to
right) Natalie Labossière,
writer,
Mary-Lou Donnelly,
President of CTF, Ronald Boudreau,
Co-Director, Research and Information at CTF,
Ghislaine Pilon, President of CNPF, Richard
Lacombe, General Director of ACELF, Josée Lang,
Canadian Heritage, Yves St-Maurice, President of
ACELF, Richard Vaillancourt, director of Early
Childhood Learning at CNPF.
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CTF and two national partners, the Commission
nationale des parents francophones (CNPF) and the Association
canadienne d’éducation de langue française
(ACELF), launched
Dream Big, It’s Elementary!
at the ACELF
annual meeting in Vancouver, B.C. on Oct. 1, 2009. This
resource aims to provide exogamous families of children
aged 6 to 12 with support in order to develop, nurture and
improve their children’s French-language skills and build
their children’s identity.
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CTF's Private Meeting with the Dalai Lama |
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On Oct. 3, CTF President, Mary-Lou Donnelly, led a small delegation to
Montréal to meet with the Dalai Lama. The delegation
presented him with a copy of the winning World Teachers’ Day
poster as well the winning student environmental and peace essays. For
more information read the
news release and for photos
click here.
To view the video of the Dalai Lama's presentation in
Montréal, go to
McGill
University's Web site.
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Looking
for a way to engage the young girls and women in your
classrooms? |
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Experiences is a national mentorship program for
girls aged 12 to 17 and young women aged 18 to 25, that aims
to provide them with the leadership skills and confidence to
consider elected office, whether that is school council next
year or 24 Sussex Drive down the road! Explore the
mentorship opportunities available on the
Equal Voice Web site
and register at
www.equalvoice.ca/experiences
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Former Staff Director of the Canadian
Teachers’ Federation Received International Award |
Liliane Vincent, former Director of Services to
Francophones, was honoured with the prestigious
“Ordre des francophones d’Amérique”
award at a special ceremony in Québec City, Sept.
30. This award is given to a person
who dedicated his or her career to promoting the French language
throughout America.
More.
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Women's Symposium
CTF's
annual Women's Symposium will be held Feb. 9-10,
2010, in Toronto at the Elementary Teachers'
Federation of Ontario's office.
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Day of action to end Canadian poverty
CTF attended the
Campaign 2000’s Day of Action on Parliament Hill on Nov. 24 to
mark the
20th anniversary of Parliament's unanimous resolution to end
child poverty by 2000. Later that day, the House of Commons adopted
a motion to eliminate child poverty in Canada. Summary and photos
posted on the
Make Poverty History site.
Campaign 2000 is a
non-partisan, cross-Canada network of 120 national, provincial and
community partner organizations committed to working to end child
and family poverty in Canada.
www.campaign2000.ca |
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