This President’s Bulletin is a bit of a smorgasbord—with an assortment of opportunities for you and your students. For teachers, there is info on the Surrey English Teachers’ Inspiration Day: “You are a reader too, you are a writer too” on Friday, February 16, 2007. This conference is open to out-of-district teachers and will be […]

Background The First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC) in partnership with the Ministry of Education (MOE) is in the final stages of the development of the English 12 First Peoples (EFP12) curriculum and examination.

English Language Arts 8-12 Curriculum Update The new ELA 8-12 curriculum should be available for review in September. Originally, it was to be posted in February, then got pushed back to May. Let’s hope it gets posted this time! Check out the Ministry web site and this link: www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/drafts/

December 20, 2007 Gail Hughes-Adams, English Language Arts Co-ordinator, Content and Achievement Standards Unit, Ministry of Education P.O. Box 9183 Stn Prov Govt, Victoria, B.C. V8W 9H9 Dear Ms. Hughes-Adams, The new English Language Arts 8-12 IRP represents a dramatic departure from the previous 1995 IRP. The extent of the change is no doubt a […]

Conference Report Thanks to all 384 paid registrants who attended this conference! We had a great mix of teachers from public and independent schools, representatives from the Ministry of Education, university faculty, and student teachers.