Tag: Education

  • Bragg Creek’s Banded Creek School Among Youth Environmental Engagement Grant Recipients

    Bragg Creek’s Banded Creek School Among Youth Environmental Engagement Grant Recipients

    The AEF believes in inspiring the next generation of eco-heroes by supporting Alberta’s young people (aged 25 and under) in their environmental efforts. With funds from founding program sponsor, ConocoPhillips Canada, and other sponsors and individual donors, the AEF provides micro-grants of up to $400 to environmental projects. The AEF intends to allocate over 100…

  • Millarville Community School: Gearing Up for an Active Year

    Millarville Community School: Gearing Up for an Active Year

      Greetings Wildcat Parents! I hope you all had a wonderful winter break and that Santa was good to you. Hopefully you had a chance to get out to the slopes, spend time with family and friends, or do something else fun for yourselves during the time the kids had off. Before the break our…

  • Calgary Mustard Seed: Students help our guests feel the warmth of the Christmas season

    Calgary Mustard Seed: Students help our guests feel the warmth of the Christmas season

    Children and teenagers living in and around Calgary are amazing. They are thoughtful, compassionate and generous. We see this on almost a daily basis during the month of December. That’s when students who have been collecting donations for people experiencing homelessness and poverty drop off socks and back packs at our downtown building. They are…

  • Brant Christian School Looking at Building New School in Foothills

    Brant Christian School Looking at Building New School in Foothills

      Brant Christian School has expressed interest in building a new school on land somewhere between High River and Okotoks within FSD’s attendance boundaries. Brant and FSD have had some preliminary discussions about the possibility of Brant joining FSD and operating as a Christian alternative program under FSD’s authority. Trustees approved a motion “directing the…

  • Parent Math Nights

    Parent Math Nights

      The Calgary Regional Consortium is hosting three math sessions for parents of students in Kindergarten to Grade 6 in February and March 2016. The sessions will focus on understanding how learners move from counting, to reasoning about addition and subtraction, to “knowing” facts and the differences between addition and multiplication — as strategies for…

  • Oilfield High School Students “Borrowed” Human Books

    Oilfield High School Students “Borrowed” Human Books

    By Pam Jones, Editor. Very few people had heard about a “Human Library” until a short while ago. Nadine Russell, the Library Tech at Oilfields High School, saw a Facebook page that explained how the New York Public Library had hosted a Human Library. Intrigued by the idea, Nadine put her many connections and imaginative…

  • Millarville Community School: A New Year Welcomes New Faces

    Millarville Community School: A New Year Welcomes New Faces

      Happy New Year! On behalf of the whole staff of MCS we hope you had a restful and enjoyable time with your families over the holiday season. As we start the new year, we have some new changes to our MCS lineup of staff. Welcome to Mrs. Cindy tenBroek who will be teaching some…

  • Family Literacy Day at Turner Valley School

    Family Literacy Day at Turner Valley School

    Family Literacy Day is a national awareness initiative created by ABC Life Literacy Canada in 1999 and held annually on January 27 to raise awareness of the importance of reading and engaging in other literacy-related activities as a family. Taking time every day to read or do a learning activity with children is crucial to a child’s development. Even just 15 minutes…

  • Provincial Government Announces New Grants for Aboriginal Students

    Provincial Government Announces New Grants for Aboriginal Students

      Graduate and undergraduate students to benefit from $1 million in awards; application deadlines in February By Casey Blais and Veronica Vincent The Government of Alberta has provided the University of Calgary with just over $1 million in new grant money for aboriginal student awards in 2016. Alberta Innovation and Advanced Education announced two new…

  • Creating Learning Environments that Respect Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Gender Expressions

      Education Minister David Eggen releases a new resource to assist school boards in drafting policies to support welcoming, caring, respectful and safe schools. Alberta Education has created a document called “Guidelines for Best Practices: Creating Learning Environments that Respect Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Expressions and Gender Identities” to assist school authorities when addressing the…

  • Nominations for Grade-A Educators iin Alberta Now Open

    Nominations for Grade-A Educators iin Alberta Now Open

      Albertans are encouraged to nominate an outstanding educator in their community for the 28th annual Excellence in Teaching Awards. This year, approximately 30 semifinalists will be selected and 20 winners will receive Excellence in Teaching Awards. Nominations will be open until Friday, March 4, 2016. “We know that having quality teachers and principals is…

  • Turner Valley School News: New Year Greetings

    Turner Valley School News: New Year Greetings

      Happy New Year!!! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas Break and were able to spend it with family and friends. I know the kids were super excited to be back at school. We look forward to a New Year, and staff and students will continue to take time to celebrate the growth they have made. Our focus in the…

  • Canada Summer Jobs 2016 Now Accepting Applications from Employers

    Canada Summer Jobs 2016 Now Accepting Applications from Employers

      High River, AB – Not-for-profit organizations, public-sector employers and small businesses with 50 or fewer employees looking to hire full-time workers for summer 2016 can now apply for funding under the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) program. CSJ creates summer job opportunities and valuable work experience specifically for youth aged 15 to 30 intending to…

  • University of Calgary’s Top 10 Changemaker Stories of 2015

    University of Calgary’s Top 10 Changemaker Stories of 2015

      UToday’s most-read stories about people at the University of Calgary making a difference in the community By Lynda Sea When Foghorn the rooster was discovered by Calgary Animal and Bylaw Services, he had lost both his feet due to severe frostbite and couldn’t walk. The account of how three imaginative researchers from the Faculty…

  • Foothills School Division: 2016 Priorities

    Foothills School Division: 2016 Priorities

      On behalf of Foothills School Division’s Board of Trustees and all of our staff, Happy New Year! And I would like to extend a special welcome back to our students and staff. The New Year always brings with it so much hope and possibility. Many people make resolutions at this time of the year,…