Superintendents and District Chairs of Indigenous Education Councils are asked to save the date for the fifth annual Jointly Convened Annual Meeting (JCAM), which will take place in person on May 9. The purpose of this annual meeting is to share information and contribute to reconciliation between school districts and First Nations as referenced in Schedule …
Please encourage schools to complete the School Food Survey to provide an update on the establishment and expansion of school food programs through Feeding Futures funding. The survey will take approximately 30 minutes to complete and will be open until February 26. This survey will collect information about the delivery of school food programs to inform Feeding …
The deadline for registration for the Framework for Enhancing Student Learning’s Communities of Practice has been extended. Updated information and details are available on the new Communities of Practice poster. Please send an expression of interest or questions to EDUC.Framework@gov.bc.ca by Wednesday, February 21.
A one-time grant will be made available to support school districts impacted by the decommissioning of TELUS copper services provided to schools under the TSMA Lite. Project Penny grant applications are due March 1. For further information about this grant, please contact gabriel.joseph@gov.bc.ca. Note: To ensure awareness of this one-time grant, the Project Penny Grant Submission …
To improve navigation of the School Secure Web (SSW), legacy and historical reports with no operational value will be removed from the system starting August 30. Schools wishing to retain these reports must download copies to their own secure files. For a summary of currently available reports and their retention schedules, refer to the Reports …
The Ministry of Education and Child Care, the First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC), and Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) invite you to mark your calendars for this year’s BCTEA Annual Meeting on Transportation on Thursday, April 18, 2024, from 10:00 am-12:00 pm PST. Details are available in this event backgrounder.
The First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC) invites educators to register for the Learning First Peoples Spring Institute at the Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel, Vancouver. Sessions include English First Peoples 10-12 Teacher Resource Guide, BC First Peoples 12 Teacher Resource Guide, and Math & Science First Peoples Teacher Resource Guides. Each session introduces resources that are …
The ministry is seeking superintendents’ consent to allow the McCreary Centre Society to release their aggregate district-level data and report to the ministry from the 2023 McCreary Adolescent Health Survey. To provide your consent, please sign and return this letter to the Mental Health and Substance Use branch at EDUC.MentalHealth@gov.bc.ca.
School districts are required to test for lead content in drinking water in their school facilities to ensure the quality meets established guidelines. Please complete the Testing Lead Content in Drinking Water of School Facilities Report 2023-24 (under Publications and Resources on the Capital Planning web page) and then email your report to the Capital Management …
The ChildCareBC New Spaces Fund will be closing its current intake on February 9. In the coming weeks, the New Spaces Fund will introduce a new application process and new guidelines for the next intake scheduled to open in April. These documents will be added to the web page and shared in a future edition of …
