The French translation of Language Matters! Understanding Mental Health and Substance Use: A Resource for Families and School Communities is now available. This guide supports mental health and substance use literacy and helps build capacity across the K–12 system to facilitate conversations, foster shared understanding of mental health and substance use concepts and terminology. You can find …
A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) document is now available in both English and French to provide school districts with additional guidance on evidence-based early literacy screening and early literacy screening tools, as well as considerations for how school districts should use their professional learning grants to best support mandatory screening, professional learning and capacity building. …
Make a Future has launched the Internationally Educated Teachers website to support the recruitment of international teachers wanting to work in British Columbia. Funded by the Ministry of Education and Child Care as part of the K–12 Workforce Plan and developed in collaboration with experts in teacher certification and immigration, this site offers clear guidance …
Please be advised that Career Education Week will be celebrated in British Columbia from November 24-28, 2025. The Ministry of Education and Child Care, in collaboration with the Career Education Society of BC, invites school districts to include this important week in their 2025-26 school calendars. Further details and planning resources will be shared in the …
Please join us May 29 at 3:10 pm PDT for the seventh Analytics Engagement and Information-Sharing Session of the 2024-25 school year for an overview of the Graduation Assessments Power BI report. See the poster for more information and the registration link. Please contact EDUC.ReportingUnit@gov.bc.ca if you have any questions. The recording for this session …
The Official Languages in Education Programs (OLEP) school district End of Year Report – FP-01 is available and due by July 31, 2025. New for 2025/26, the OLEP Planning Form – FP-02 is due by October 31, 2025. FP-01 and FP-02 reports, updated School District French Funding Guide and district funding allocations for 2025-26 are …
Teachers delivering French-language education to students in Grades 4–8 have a new free resource. Brise-danger, the French-language version of the popular Master of Disaster emergency preparedness program, is now available to order ahead of Emergency Preparedness Week (May 4–9). Brise-danger is aligned with the BC curriculum and requires minimal preparation. The program includes Indigenous Knowledge …
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As part of the provincial K-12 Literacy Supports initiative, the Ministry of Education and Child Care, in collaboration with BCcampus, is seeking input from K-12 teachers and educational support staff on online resource needs related to student literacy development, via a brief survey. The ministry is requesting that school district superintendents and leads distribute this …
The 2024/25 Student Learning Survey (SLS) is open now through May 2, 2025. In addition to Grades 4, 7, 10 and 12, the SLS will now include Grade 11 students. This will help provide a more comprehensive understanding of the student experience in secondary schools. Grade 11 results will be included in all standard reports for …
