With the start of the 2025–26 school year, the Ministry of Education and Child Care has worked with community organizations and education partners to develop supporting elaborations for the expanded learning standard requiring CPR and AED learning in the Physical and Health Education (PHE) 10 curriculum. While not mandated, these elaborations support teachers by providing …
This week, access zones around K–12 schools have been established through the Safe Access to Schools Regulation to preserve safe access to education by protecting students, staff and families from disruptive and harmful protest activities at schools. Access zones were first established in May 2024 and again in September 2024 for the 2024‑25 school year, …
Under section 80 (Employers list) of the Teachers Act, employers are required to make a report to the Director of Certification on all B.C. certificate holders who were employed during the past academic year (July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025). Please ensure your report is submitted through the Employers’ Area by October 15. View …
The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC) has released a new, bilingual, online teaching resource that may be useful for Social Studies 10 teachers as they prepare to implement the new learning standard about the Holocaust. Fragments in Focus: A History of the Holocaust features over 160 original items from the VHEC collection that once belonged …
The BCCDC has developed Measles Guidance for K–12 Schools. This resource supplements the Public Health Communicable Disease Guidance for K–12 Schools and provides additional guidance for educators, administrators and support staff at public and independent schools related to preventing the spread of measles within the school setting.
BC may continue to experience high temperatures as students and staff return to school, which can be an added stressor for children and families during a time of change. For information on actions schools can take during heat events, visit the Preparing for Heat Events section of the Ministry of Education and Child Care’s Safe and …
Discipline outcomes are posted to enhance the transparency of the processes and decisions made with respect to complaints and reports about educators. Recently, an outcome was posted regarding Ming Chun Chen, who agreed to a reprimand.
Child care centres are advised to take precautionary steps to help protect the health of children and staff at their centres. The BC Centre for Disease Control has provided measles guidance for child care providers and resources on preventative measures to take against measles.
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. …
Discipline outcomes are posted to enhance the transparency of the processes and decisions made with respect to complaints and reports about educators. Recently, outcomes were posted regarding Hussan Ali Riasat, whose certificate was suspended for two days, Todd Erin Graham, whose certificate was suspended for one day, Eric Joseph Bernard Enreight Blouin, whose certificate was suspended …
