President's Message For Your Professional Development...
Planning for our 34th annual conference which will take place at the Sheraton Centre on February 11th & 12th, 2010 is almost complete
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Engaging Parents Nurturing Confident Students
Our theme for this newsletter expresses what most educators and parents already know: the role of parents is vital to children.s development and education. Educators are well aware that parental involvement is one of the key factors in cultivating successful schools. An increased desire for parental involvement is reflected in recent Ministry and Board policies and actions. For example
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Engaging Parents Oscar Night at Crescent Town School
Crescent Town School is a large inner-city and multilingual school situated in the middle of an apartment complex in the Toronto District School Board. With close to ninety percent of the students speaking another language at home, communication with families can be quite a challenge. Interpreters for meetings and translations of important information are always provided. In addition
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Engaging Parents Family Literacy Nights: Equipping Parents with Strategies to Support their Child.s Reading Development
Family Literacy Nights are opportunities to bring the community together to share consistent strategies for helping our children progress in their literacy development. At St. Anthony School, our focus for the evening was to assist families in realizing that .the parent is the child.s first teacher.. As a result
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Engaging Parents Parenting and Family Literacy Centres: Building Foundations for School and for Life
You will find Parenting and Family Literacy Centres in a large number of schools in TDSB and TCDSB. These centres, usually housed in existing classrooms, provide inviting environments for children ages 0-6 years and their parents or caregivers to come and play together while learning valuable language and literacy skills
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Engaging Parents The Professional Volunteer
I.m a Professional Volunteer. That is how I refer to myself when asked what I do for a living. I have been blessed with the ability to enrich my children.s lives, not only through our day-to-day home activities, but also through various lead programs at school. It was through my heavy involvement in my children.s school that I was able to help my son overcome some learning obstacles
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Engaging Parents Thanks to You
As a child, I always enjoyed going to school. Over the years, my friends and teachers may have changed, but the unconditional support of my parents remained constant. As I reflect upon these earlier school days, the value of my parents. involvement with my academic life becomes evident. From kindergarten to university, my parents experienced a wide range of recitals, competitions, and pre-exam meltdowns
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Sites to See
Recognizing the role of parental involvement in successful schools and in the academic, social and emotional development of the children in our schools, the Ministry of Education has developed a new Parental Involvement Policy. Many Boards of Education around the province already have a section on their websites devoted to Parental Involvement
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Reviews
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Outreach
The East York Scarborough Reading Association.s goal is to support children and adults in attaining, promoting and strengthening literacy skills. Through your generous support, our association funds organizations locally, nationally and internationally. One of the international organizations we were able to work with is the St. Gaspar Elementary School Project
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Wanted Hidden Pearls: Teacher Nominees for our Reading Award
Take this opportunity to recognize a deserving colleague and nominate them for this special award. Each year, our Association honours exceptional contributions by teachers in the field of literacy
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Reading for the love of it 2010
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